Shane Mackinlay
BTheol (MCD) BA (Monash) MPhil (Leuven) PhD (Leuven)
Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research)
Department of Philosophy
Rev. Dr Shane Mackinlay is the Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research) of Catholic theological College, and a member of the Department of Philosophy. He represents the CTC Academic Board on the Senate of the College, and chairs the Research Committee of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He lectures in epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and 20th century continental philosophy. He is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat. and the parish priest of St Michael’s, Bungaree.
The undergraduate units he teaches include:
Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research)
Department of Philosophy
Rev. Dr Shane Mackinlay is the Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research) of Catholic theological College, and a member of the Department of Philosophy. He represents the CTC Academic Board on the Senate of the College, and chairs the Research Committee of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He lectures in epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and 20th century continental philosophy. He is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat. and the parish priest of St Michael’s, Bungaree.
The undergraduate units he teaches include:
He also coordinates the units:
Shane Mackinlay holds the degrees of Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity, Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, and Master in Philosophy and Doctor in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His doctoral research studied the implicit hermeneutics of Jean-Luc Marion’s saturated phenomena.
Shane Mackinlay holds the degrees of Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity, Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, and Master in Philosophy and Doctor in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His doctoral research studied the implicit hermeneutics of Jean-Luc Marion’s saturated phenomena.
He has also lectured at Australian Catholic University, in the areas of introductory theology and philosophy, and Christian theological ethics. He chairs both the Clergy Assistance Fund, the Clergy Support Fund and the Bishop's Advisory Council of the Ballarat Diocese.
His main academic interests are phenomenology, hermeneutics, Jean-Luc Marion’s “saturated phenomena”, the philosophy of religion, aesthetics (philosophy of art), and the philosophy of science.
His recent publications include: Interpreting Excess: Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics (2010); and “Can a Free Agora be Value-Free?” in God, Freedom and Nature (forthcoming); “Dépassement exceptionnel ou banalité du paradigme: l’itinéraire des phénomènes saturés de Jean-Luc Marion” in Nunc (2008). He has also translated Claude Romano's Event and World (2009).