Professor David Bronstein

David Bronstein is Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics and Society, and Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Philosophy, at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney. He is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2023-2026).

Professor Bronstein was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, where, like Leonard Cohen, he graduated from Westmount High School. He studied Classics and Contemporary Studies at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, and he completed his PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has held positions as lecturer and postdoctoral research fellow at Oxford University (2007-10), as Assistant Professor at Boston University (2010-12), as Assistant and then Associate Professor (tenured) at Georgetown University (2012-20), and as Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (2019-22).
Professor Bronstein’s research is in the area of Ancient Greek Philosophy. He is interested in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics in Plato, Aristotle, and the Aristotelian tradition. He is the author or co-editor of three books, including the monograph Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: the Posterior Analytics (Oxford University Press, 2016), among other publications.

At Clare Hall, Professor Bronstein will be working on projects on Aristotle’s theory of science and his theory of virtue.

Professor Bronstein is accompanied by his wife, Dr Keren Hamerschlag, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Australian National University and an expert in Victorian art and the medical humanities. She is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Divinity.