Stephen Hetherington

The son of the Australian artist, caricaturist, cartoonist, and puppeteer, Norman Frederick Hetherington {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (1921–2010), and Margaret "Peggy" Hetherington (1923–2022), née Owrid, née Purnell,She had married Alfred Donald Owrid (1924-2013), in Sydney, in 1949 (reg.no.21715/1949), and they were divorced on 11 February 1954: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248882679 Today’s Courts: Divorce: Mr. Justice Brereton: "M. Owrid v. A.D. Owrid", The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, 11 February 1953), p.20.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244373149 Homing in Fishing Smack, The Herald, (Thursday, 8 May 1952), p.5]; [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130278262 Fishing Boat for Australia, The Adelaide News, (Tuesday, 13 May 1952), p.5]; [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248718467 Berkeley, Elaine, "Girl Sails Home in Fishing Smack", The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Sunday, 25 May 1952), p.39.]She graduated from University of Sydney with a Diploma of Social Studies in 1955 (see [https://calendararchive.usyd.edu.au/Calendar/1955_supp/1955-6_Supplement.pdf The University of Sydney Calendar Supplement for the Year 1955-6, Sydney: The University of Sydney, 1956], p.761; see also pp.281, 282, 356).Richard Bradshaw (2023), [https://www.unima.org.au/remembering-margaret-peggy-hetherington-1923-2022 "Remembering Margaret (Peggy) Hetherington (1923-2022)", Unima Australia, ^ February 2023.] Stephen Cade Hetherington was born at Sydney in 1959{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}.

He grew up in Mosman, New South Wales, where his father's puppetry collection and workshop were located in the basement beneath the family residence.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Dv9jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1261%2C3899909 "Some Holiday Treats for the Children", The (Sydney) Sun-Herald, (Sunday, 11 May 1969), p.128.][http://www.theage.com.au/national/creative-mind-thrilled-children-20101207-18oe7.html Foyle, L., "Creative Mind Thrilled Children", The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, 8 December 2010.]

He married the artist Parveen Kaur Seehra in 1990.[https://shetherington9.wixsite.com/my-site-6 Stephen Hetherington: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, shetherington9.wixsite.com.]

He attended the opportunity classes (years 5 and 6) at Neutral Bay Public School and, then, attended the academically selective Fort Street High School in Sydney (as had his father, Norman).

He received his tertiary education from the University of Sydney, from New College at the University of Oxford, and from the University of Pittsburgh:

• University of Sydney: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Honours Class I), 1981.
• University of Oxford, New College: Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.), 1983.B.Phil. dissertation: Epistemic Foundationalism (Hetherington, 1983b).
• University of Pittsburgh: Master of Arts (M.A.), 1986.
• University of Pittsburgh: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 1987.Ph.D. dissertation: Narcissistic Epistemology (Hetherington, 1987).

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In the four years (1977 to 1980) that he studied at the University of Sydney, Hetherington not only operated marionettes part-time in his father's special, highly successful dental health programme for children ("Smiley's Good Teeth Puppet Theatre"),See: Woolley, J.M., "Changing Oral Hygiene Attitudes and Habits", International Dental Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, (September 1980), pp. 249–256. {{PMID|6160112}} but also spoke to the children before and after each show. His part in this programme ceased when left Australia, and went to Oxford to continue his studies.

His first four publications were written while he was still a student; the first two (Hetherington, 1983a; 1984a), written as an undergraduate student, were derived from papers written for his Honours-year coursework at the University of Sydney, and the other two (Hetherington, 1984b; 1988) were written as a post-graduate student during his time at the University of Pittsburgh.

He became a well-respected prolific author in a wide range of philosophical domains, especially epistemology:

::Stephen Hetherington is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales whose key research interests are in epistemology and metaphysics. With several monographs and edited collections and more than 100 articles, he has earned an international reputation for his revivification of epistemology. He has also produced several lively works introducing students to the history and current frontiers of epistemology, which have been translated into a number of languages and have been used for teaching in widely dispersed countries — the secret of their success lies partly in the way he includes his own original research, in enlivening the exposition of traditional debates.
(The Australian Academy of the Humanities.)[https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=165 Fellow Profile: Emeritus Professor Stephen Hetherington, Australian Academy of the Humanities.]

He commenced his academic career in 1987, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University; and in 1990 he transferred to the philosophy department of the University of New South Wales where he remained until his retirement in late 2020.

From December 2013 until March 2022 he was the editor-in-chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a prestigious English-language philosophy journal continuously published since 1923.

He is the editor-in-chief of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Epistemology series and, also, the Bloomsbury Publishing Critical Introductions to Contemporary Epistemology series.

In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).

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• Candlish, Stewart (2022), "The First Hundred Years of (The) Australasian Journal of Philosophy", Vol.100, No.1, (2022), pp. 3-24. {{doi|10.1080/00048402.2020.1871385}}
• Hetherington, S.C. (1983a), "Tooley's Theory of Laws of Nature", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.13, No.1, (January 1983), pp. 101–106. {{doi|10.1080/00455091.1983.10715835}}
• Hetherington, S.C. (1983b), Epistemic Foundationalism, B.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford. [https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph017291109 SOLO catalogue entry]
• Hetherington, S.C. (1984a), "Parsons and Possible Objects", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.62, No.3, (September 1984), pp. 246–254. {{doi|10.1080/00048408412340033}}
• Hetherington, S.C. (1984b), "A Note on Inherence", Ancient Philosophy, Vol.4, No.2, (October 1984), pp. 218–223. {{doi|10.5840/ancientphil1984427}}
• Hetherington, S.C. (1987), Narcissistic Epistemology, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. [https://pitt.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01PITT_INST/e8h8hp/alma998902023406236 PittCat catalogue entry]
• Hetherington, S.C. (1988), "More on Possible Objects", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.66, No.1, (March 1988), pp. 96–100. {{doi|10.1080/00048408812350271}}
• Hetherington, Stephen (2022), "AJP—100", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.100, No.1, (2022), pp. 1-2. {{doi|10.1080/00048402.2021.2018672}}

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• [https://shetherington9.wixsite.com/my-site-6 Stephen Hetherington's personal web-site -- includes details of most of his published works.]

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