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About Pat McConville
Pat McConville is a philosopher and bioethicist based in nipaluna Hobart, in lutruwita Tasmania. He is currently Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Deakin University, Australia.
He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Tasmania, before beginning Master of Bioethics and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at Monash University, Australia. He completed his doctoral studies with a dissertation entitled Phenomenology and Artificial Hearts, and has published in the fields of phenomenology, bioethics, and aesthetics.
Outside academia, he has worked as a ministerial and parliamentary advisor, Divisional Secretary of the higher education labour union, the National Tertiary Education Union, and curator of a university’s public education programmes. He has no formal expertise in art but finds the connection between his own and others’ work and art to be fascinating.
He is a committed father, partner, and unionist.
Pat McConville is a philosopher and bioethicist based in nipaluna Hobart, in lutruwita Tasmania. He is currently Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Deakin University, Australia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Pat:
October 14, 2025
Utopia is Boring
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Evie Kendal. Dr Evie Kendal is a bioethicist and public health scientist whose work focuses on emerging technologi…
September 19, 2025
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Anya Daly. Dr Anya Daly investigates the intersections of phenomenology with philosophy of mind, the philosophy of…
July 7, 2025
Rhythm, Exorcism, and Confrontation with Lexi Eikelboom
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lexi Eikelboom. Dr Lexi Eikelboom is both a visual artist and a scholar of philosophical theology. Her academic wo…
June 8, 2025
Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman. Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman works as a teacher and researcher in philosophy in Naarm/Melbourne…
May 4, 2025
Fast, Loud, and Super Funky with Ellie Ripley
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Ellie Ripley. Dr Ellie Ripley’s work focuses on languages, logics, and the relations between them. They discuss m…
March 21, 2025
Sublime Art, Nice Philosophy with Michelle Liu
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Michelle Liu. Dr Michelle Liu works on various topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and aesthetic…
February 24, 2025
Beauty and Revelation with Catherine Catherine Wesselinoff
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Catherine Catherine Wesselinoff. Dr Catherine Catherine Wesselinoff is a lecturer in philosophy at the University …
December 30, 2024
Girlboss Leviathan
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Elese Dowden. Dr Elese Dowden is a writer and philosopher from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her doctoral work was on ethi…
November 17, 2024
Collaboration, Presentation, and Representation
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Cambridge UP, 2022) …
October 27, 2024
Paris, Cuba, and David from Any Direction
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin. Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural theory and creative practice. Her work focuses on…
September 11, 2024
Ontological Disruption, Slow Cinema, and Religious Icons
Dr Annie Sandrussi applies phenomenological and gender-based methods to examine how everyday and public understandings are underpinned by ontological …
August 12, 2024
Gold, Silver, and Bronze
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Yuri Cath. Dr Yuri Cath's work explores epistemological questions about the nature and sources of different kinds …
July 19, 2024
Pottery, Moral Enhancement, and Science-Fiction
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Pei-hua Huang. Dr Pei-hua Huang’s work lies where bioethics and political philosophy intersect. She is interested …
June 10, 2024
Lifestyle and Death with Christopher Mayes
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Christopher Mayes. Dr Mayes is an interdisciplinary scholar with backgrounds in sociology, history and philosophy. …
May 14, 2024
Dancing Parkinson's and Queering Science
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr John Noel Viaña. Dr John Noel Viaña’s work is focused on the social and ethical aspects of neuroscience and biotec…
April 7, 2024
Enactivism, Embodiment, and the Gorier Stuff
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Marilyn Stendera, co-author (with Emily Hughes) of Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time (Routledge, 2024). Dr S…
March 23, 2024
Caste, Music, and Microinequities
In this episode, Pat speaks with Dr Supriya Subramani. Dr Subramani's interest in morality and ethics has led her to explore morality, behaviour, and…