Degrees Held
- BA Hons in Philosophy, University of Liverpool 1997
- MA in History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds 1998
- PhD in Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal 2018
Research Interests
- Areas of Specialisation: Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy (especially Phenomenology & Existentialism), Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of History
- Areas of Competence: Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Environmental Philosophy, British Idealism, American Transcendentalism
Teaching Interests
- History of Philosophy
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Chapter Books
Journal Articles
- Du Toit, J. & Swer, G. (2021) ‘Virtual Limitations of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Technological Determinism’. Phenomenology and Mind, Volume 20. pgs. 20-31. https://doi.org/10.17454/10.17454/pam-2002
- Swer, G. (2021) ‘How Technology Drives the History of the Green Revolution’. Capitalism Nature Socialism, Volume 32. Issue 4. pgs. 73-90. https://org/10.1080/10455752.2020.1862889
- Du Toit, J. & Swer, G. (2020) ‘A Manifesto for Messy Philosophy of Technology: The Past and Future of an Academic Field’. Theory of Science, Volume 42. Issue 2. pgs. 231-252. https://org/10.46938/tv.2020.491
- Swer, G. (2020) ‘Nature, Gender and Technology: The Ontological Foundations of Shiva’s Ecofeminist Philosophy’. Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Volume 12. Issue 2. pgs. 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2020.1780685
- G. (2020) ‘Dread, Longing and Care: Spengler’s Account of the Existential Structure of Human Experience’. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Volume 51. Issue 1. pgs.71-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2019.1633613
- G. (2020) ‘The Revolt Against Reason: Oswald Spengler and Violence as Cultural Preservative’. Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, Volume 4. Issue 1. pgs. 123-148. https://doi.org/10.22618/TP.PJCV.20204.1.201008
- G. (2019) ‘Technology and the End of Western Civilisation: Spengler and Heidegger’s Histories of Life/Being’. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Volume 19. No. 1. pgs. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/20797222.2019.1641915
- Swer, G. (2019) ‘The Decline of Western Science: Defending Spengler’s Account of the End of Science – Within Reason’. Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Volume 50. pgs. 545-560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09461-x
- Swer, G. (2019) ‘Homo Touristicus: or The Jargon of Authenticity 2.0’. South African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38. No. 2. pgs. 210-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2019.1616920
- Swer, G. (2018) ‘Timely Meditations?: Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of History Reconsidered’. Prolegomena, Volume 17. No.2. pgs. 137-154. https://doi.org/10.26362/20180302
- Swer, G. (2017) ‘Oswald Spengler and Martin Heidegger on Modern Science, Metaphysics and Mathematics’. Idealistic Studies, Volume 47. Issues 1 & 2. pgs. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.5840/idstudies201811278
- Swer, G. (2014) ‘Determining Technology: Myopia and Dystopia’, South African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33. No. 2. pgs. 201-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2014.923696
Chapter Books
- Swer, G. (2021) ‘Science Fiction: Science, Vaihinger and Spengler’s Fictionalist Philosophy of Science’. Oswald Spengler in an Age of Globalisation, (eds.) David Engels, Gerd Morgenthaler & Max Otte, Berlin/Lüdinghausen: Manuscriptum Verlag, pgs. 197-225
- Swer, G. (2019) ‘The Seeds of Violence: Ecofeminism, Technology, and Ecofeminist Philosophy of Technology’. Feminist Philosophy of Technology, (eds.) Janina Loh & Mark Coeckelbergh, Book Series: Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie, J.B. Metzler publisher, pgs. 247-263 (2019), doi: 0.1007/978-3-476-04967-4
Teaching Expertise
- Social Contract Theory
- Phenomenology & Existentialism
- Critical Theory
- Philosophy of Technology
- Reactionary Modernism