Skip to main content

School of Philosophy

  • Home
  • People
  • Events
    • Event series
    • Conferences
      • Past conferences
    • Past events
  • News
    • Audio/Video Recordings
  • Research
  • Study with us
    • Prizes and scholarships
  • Visit us
  • Contact us

Centres & Projects

  • Centre for Consciousness
  • Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory
  • Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences

Related Sites

  • Research School of Social Sciences
  • ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Administrator

Breadcrumb

HomePeoplePeter Grundy
Peter Grundy
Peter Grundy

Position: Academic Visitor
School and/or Centres: School of Philosophy

Email: petercharlesgrundy@gmail.com

Qualification: 1972 BA (Hons) - University of Sydney (Dissertation: &#039;The Popperian Theory of Science&#039;)<br />
1976 MA - Macquarie University (Dissertation: &#039;Dreams and Other Worlds&#039;)<br />
2000 BTh (Distinction)- Charles Sturt University (Laurence Murchison Prize)<br />
2009 PhD - Australian National University (Dissertation: &#039;D Z Phillips and the Wittgensteinian Grammar of ‘God is Love’).

  • Biography
  • Research interest
  • Publications

Academic Experience
1973-74       Tutor, Philosophy, Macquarie University
                     Resident Tutor, Robert Menzies College, MacU
1977             Research Scholar, General Philosophy, Sydney Uni
2000-2007     Associate Lecturer, Theology, Charles Sturt Uni
2003-2008     Research Scholar, Philosophy, ANU
2007-2008     Visiting Faculty Fellow, School of Social Sciences, ANU
2009-2011     Visitor, Philosophy, School of Humanities, ANU
2012-2018     Visitor, Philosophy, RSSS ANU
2019-2020     Academic Visitor, Philosophy, RSSS ANU
2019-2026     Senior Research Fellow, Theology, Charles Sturt Uni
2022-2024     Academic Visitor, Philosophy, RSSS ANU

  • Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion

  • The Greek New Testament

  • The law of native title: common, statute and case

  • Biographical and national history

  • Missiology: Oceania

 

News media    

  • ‘Flawed view on Wik decision’  The Canberra Times 6 February 1996
  • ‘Our freedoms assaulted by terrorism’  The Canberra Times 28 January 2002
  • ‘The Devil’s in the Detail’  Anglican News  June 2004
  • ‘Catching an Existent’  The Australian Literary Review July 1 2009
  • ‘Our Suffering and God’s Presence’  Anglican News  May 2010
  • ‘Can we put a suffering God in the dock?’  Anglican News  June 2010

Journals

  • ‘Native Title - whose responsibility?’ in Aboriginal Law Bulletin (UNSW) Vol3 No77 December 1995
  • ‘Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund’ in Land Rights Queensland, September 1996
  • Review of ‘Behind the Oval Office’ by Dick Morris in Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration No 87 February 1998
  • ‘Why do we Suffer?  Job's Dialogue with Eliphaz’ in St Mark's Review No 187 2001 (4)
  • ‘Is religion just about believing, or is it also believing about?’  Review of Lamb W ‘Living Truth – Truthful Living’ in St Mark’s Review No 198 2005 (1)
  • Review of ‘Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles’ in Australian Journal of Public Administration March 2008  Volume 67  Number 1  pp.110-112
  • ‘Why Niebuhr at All?’ in The Review of Politics (University of Notre Dame USA) Vol 74 No 2 (Spring 2012) pp.341-343
  • ‘Christian Faith, Luck and Offshore Detention’  Quadrant Vol 60
    No 3, March 2016 pp.34,35
  • ‘Neil McInnes’  Quadrant Vol 61 No 9 September 2017 pp.78-80

Anthologies

  • ‘Prima Facie Native Title’ in Papers on Parliament No 26 August 1995
  • ‘Cecil Ralph Lambert’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 15 1940-1980 Melbourne University Press 2000
  • ‘James McIntosh Fraser’ in The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Vol 2 Melbourne University Press 2004
  • ‘Frederick Hubert Beerworth’ in The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Vol 2 Melbourne University Press 2004

University Text

  • THL101 New Testament in Greek Study Outline Charles Sturt University 2000; revised 2001 and 2002

Public Record (copyright assigned)

  • ‘Francis May Hayman’  Script of Sermon  Australian War Memorial Accession No PRO 3043  2002

Some Other Projects, Lectures and Presentations

  • Popperian Statements  Seminar to faculty in Philosophy at Macquarie University  May 1973
  • Science and Theology    ‘Blockbuster’ debate with Dr Roger Bradbury at The Festival of Science Canberra 7 May 2000
  • Course Lecturer 2000-2007 Charles Sturt University THL 101 New Testament in Greek
  • Parliamentary Committee project devised and presented to the short course Responsible Parliamentary Government in the Graduate Program in Public Policy ANU  11 September 2002 and 17 November 2003
  • Wittgensteinian Dilemmas and the Religion of D Z Phillips: doctoral thesis seminar to faculty in Philosophy ANU  4 June 2004
  • Second doctoral thesis seminar to faculty in Philosophy ANU  29 April 2005
  • Lecture on the Christian Religion to School of Social Sciences ANU  18 March 2006
  • ‘The Tortured Job’: Aspects of Evil Symposium 1 ANU  21 April 2006
  • Third doctoral thesis seminar to faculty in Philosophy ANU  26 May 2006
  • ‘Job’s Answer’: Aspects of Evil Symposium 2 ANU  7 September 2006
  • Lecture on Heidegger and Time for PHIL 2097 ANU  26 March 2007
  • ‘St Augustine on the Will to be Happy’: Freedom Symposium ANU  11 July 2007
  • Lectures to the undergraduate course in Religious Studies, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Semester 1 2008
  • ‘Has Flew Redeemed Himself?’  Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association Conference, Canberra ACT  27 September 2008
  • 3 Public Debates on Religion with Dr Jeremy Shearmur at St Andrew’s Wamboin NSW  May, June and July 2010
  • ‘Rules, Descriptions and God’s Grammar’  Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association Conference Melbourne VIC  24 June 2012
  • ‘Expressing Religion’  Catholic Institute of Sydney Biennial Conference The Expressible and the Inexpressible  5-7 October 2012
  •     ‘Expressivist Religion’  ANZATS Conference Perth WA  1 July 2014
  • ‘Dying, certainly; but Saving as well?’  ANZATS Conference Melbourne VIC  4 July 2016
  • ‘Wittgensteinian Grammar and Theological Limits’ in the series Theological Disputes  Charles Sturt University 15 August 2023

Acknowledgements and Citations of Peter Grundy

  • Ritchie J  The Wentworths  The Miegunyah Press Melbourne 1997 p.xiii
  • Pawley A  ‘Stephen Wurm 1922-2001: Linguist Extraordinaire’  Oceanic Linguistics Vol 41 No 1 June 2002 p.1
  • Morris J  ‘Sea Country – the Croker Island Case’  Indigenous Law Bulletin (UNSW) 18 5(14) 2002
  • White J (et al) ‘The cloning of human cells: an Australian response to the scientific issues from an ethical and theological perspective’ in Creation and Complexity  Ledger C and Pickard S (eds)  ATF Press  Hindmarsh SA 2004 p.145
  • O’Sullivan D  Faith, Politics and Reconciliation  Huia Publishers New Zealand 2005 p.109 fn88
  • Garrett B  What is this thing called metaphysics?  Routledge Oxford 2006 p.xi
  • West M  ‘The Woman with Men’s Business’ in Peterson N, Allen L and Hamby L (eds)  The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections Pt IV ‘Transformed Collecting’, Melbourne University Press 2008 pp.553, 554
  • Shearmur J  ‘Why the “Hopeless War”?: Approaching Intelligent Design’  Sophia Vol 49 No 4 December 2010 p.486
  • Barnett L  ‘The Process of Law Reform: Conditions for Success’. Federal Law Review March 2011 Vol39 Issue 1 p.167  
  • Renani Ali Abedi  Acknowledgement of advice for ANU PhD thesis  ‘Explaining and Evaluating Alasdair McIntyre’s Notion of Constituted Rationalities and Justices’  20 December 2013 p.5
  • Bailey J-S  Dust Bowl  Palgrave Macmillan 2016 p.317
  • Nobbs R  St Barnabas’ College and the Melanesian Mission on Norfolk Island  The Church of England Norfolk Island 2019 p.2
  • Ferns N  Australia in the Age of International Development 1945-1975  Palgrave Macmillan 2020 p.215
  • Cole J  ‘Theological Disputes’  Engage Issue 14 December 2023 p.24