Biography & brief CV

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Nat Trimarchi is an Australian based independent scholar, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Swinburne University (2025). His main areas of research are centred around art, normative aesthetics, ethics, phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, Peircian semiotics, complexity science, biosemiotics, and the history and philosophy of culture; and he has published on these topics. He is aligned with the tradition of process metaphysics, with main influences being F. W. Schelling, C. S. Peirce, Max Scheler, Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others following the mainly Aristotelian tradition of the Radical Enlightenment. His doctoral thesis, The Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology), is about reconnecting art with the normative sciences. In a past life he worked in education, community development, and the arts; as an artist (in music, theatre, and film); as well as a manager, consultant, and public policy maker in the public, community, and private sectors.

 

                                                                      

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Publications (philosophy)

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2026. “Flipping the Counterfeit Coin: Why AI Can’t Make Art”. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 22 (2):401-61.

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2025. “Harmonising Humanity With Nature: Metaphor, the Person, and Art’s Higher Meaning”. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 21 (1):11-118.

     Trimarchi, Natale John. 2025. The Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology). Swinburne. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25916/sut.28587830.v1

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2024. "Peirce’s Suspended Second, and Art’s ’Ethical Phenomenology’". Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 20(2), 318–401

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2024. "Schelling’s ’Art in the Particular’: Reorienting Final Cause". Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 20(1), 416–499 

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2024. "Re-worlding the World: Schelling’s Philosophy of Art". NIPEA. Retrieved from https://nipea.net/philosophia-naturalis/re-worlding-the-world-schellings-philosophy-of-art/

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2023. "The Poles of Idea and Reality: (and the De-futurising of Art and Humanity)". Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 19(1), 426–457

     Trimarchi, Nat. 2022. “The Aesthetics of Meaning”. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 18(2), 251–304

 

    (Arts consultancies - selected)

     A Community Centred Model for Tourism - 2004

     Mackay and Region Creative Industries – An Economic Overview - 2003

     Two Steps Back from an Ersatz Cultural Rendition - 2002

     Highway 61 Reinvented, Cultural Tourism in the USA - 2001

     Queensland Regional Arts and Cultural Strategy - 2000

     The Sugar Trail - 1999

 

                                                                     

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​Education

     Ph.D. in Philosophy (Swinburne University) - 2025

     Diploma of Education (La Trobe University) - 1987

     Bachelor of Arts (University of Queensland) - 1982

 

Professional

     Regional Manager (Arts Queensland) – 2009-2013

     Manager Tanks Arts Centre (Cairns Regional Council) – 2005-2009

     Principal Consultant (Rainwater Productions) – 1998-2005

     Senior Policy and Research Officer (Australia Council) – 1996-1998

     Program Manager (Community Cultural Development Fund, Australia Council) – 1995-1996

     Community Development Officer (Bureau Ethnic Affairs, Qld) – 1993-1995

     Community Arts Officer (Brisbane City Council) – 1992-1993

     Teacher - Adult and College (ESL/EFL, English, Drama & Media) – 1986-1991

     Artist – freelance (actor, writer, director, producer: Theatre, Film, Music, CCD) – 1980-1989

 

Awards (selected)

     Artist Fellowship (Australia Council for the Arts) - 2001

     Coral Sea Scholarship (Australian-American Fulbright Com) - 2000

     Thomas Morrow Prize for English (University of Queensland) - 1982