Philip Argenio
Position: Current HDR student
School and/or Centres: School of History
Email: Philip.Argenio@anu.edu.au
Qualification:
Bachelor of Arts (Honours, First Class) in Politics (University of Adelaide, 2020)
Thesis title: The Great Corruption Debate: Bernard Mandeville, Joseph Butler and Adam Smith
Philip Argenio is a PhD candidate in the Australian National University's School of History. His research area is intellectual history.
Philip's thesis centres on the life and thought of the Scottish moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith (1723–90). It investigates his intellectual encounter with Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), the Anglo-Dutch satirist and psychiatrist, and Joseph Butler (1692–1752), the Anglican bishop and theologian.
History of political thought; the Enlightenment; intellectual biography; historical theory and method.
POLIS 2106 – Justice, Virtue and the Good (University of Adelaide, 2021)
POLIS 2017 – Passions and Interests: The History of Greed (University of Adelaide, 2022)
ECON 3056 – Classic Literature in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Australian National University, 2023)
