Deborah Brown

Deborah Brown is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. Her research interests include philosophy of mind, with a particular focus on philosophical perspectives on pain, the history of philosophy, and applications of critical thinking in education and leadership development programs. Together with neuroscientist, Professor Brian Key, she helped establish UQ's first Neurophilosophy Lab and is on the steering committee for the Centre for Innovation in Pain and Health Research (CIPHeR), the largest consortium of pain health researchers in Australasia. Philosophical Perspectives on Pain, Critical Thinking, Education, and Leadership, Early Modern Philosophy

[2026] Waiting list policy reform is required to enable randomised controlled trials of elective surgery. Quicke, Jonathan G., Brown, Deborah J., Richards, Bernadette, Ung, Owen, McDougall, Catherine, Crone, Sandra and Foster, Nadine E. (2026). ANZ Journal of Surgery ans.70744. doi: 10.1111/ans.70744 [2026] Presidential address to the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, delivered on July 7, 2024 at the University of Western Australia only joking. Brown, Deborah J. (2026). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 104 (2), 321-341. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2026.2646224 [2026] The impact of education in critical thinking on leadership in police and emergency services. Leibovitch, Yael M., Brown, Deborah J., Rolfe, John, Ellerton, Peter and Beencke, Andrew (2026). Police P