Professor William McDonald

Biography

William McDonald is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney and has taught at the University of Sydney, the University of Copenhagen, UNE, the American University of Central Asia, the United Arab Emirates University and Ashoka University, India. He has held research fellowships in Denmark, USA, Australia, UK and Slovak Republic.

William is an internationally recognized Kierkegaard scholar. He is co-editor of the six-tome Kierkegaard’s Concepts (Routledge) and author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Literary Encyclopedia articles on Kierkegaard. He also did the first translation into English of Kierkegaard’s Prefaces (Florida University Press).

William undertakes research on history of philosophy, comparative religion, philosophical psychology, aesthetics and ethics.