Freya Mathews

Freya Mathews FAHA is an Australian environmental philosopher whose main work has been in the areas of ecological metaphysics and panpsychism.

[1][2][3][4][5] Her current special interests are in ecological civilization; indigenous (Australian and Chinese) perspectives on "sustainability" and how these perspectives may be adapted to the context of contemporary global society; panpsychism and critique of the metaphysics of modernity; and wildlife ethics and rewilding in the context of the Anthropocene.

[8] She currently holds the post of Adjunct Professor of Environmental Philosophy at La Trobe University.

Mathews is the author of several books and over seventy articles on ecological philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and politics.

Particularly, she draws from Baruch Spinoza's notion of "ethic of interconnectedness", which treats the features of the natural world as attributes of the same underlying substance.