Andrew Brennan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy.   

His career was split between Scotland and Australia.  After graduating from the University of St Andrews with a double honours’ degree in moral philosophy and logic and metaphysics, he was a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Calgary and then at the University of Oxford. 

From 1970 to 1991, he taught at the University of Stirling in Scotland.  In 1992 he joined the University of Western Australia as professor and chair in philosophy and then moved to La Trobe University in the same roles in 2006. From 2008 to 2015 he also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Research. 

At various times he served as a visiting professor in other universities, including the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, the City University of Hong Kong, and the University of Oslo in Norway.

His publications were mainly in philosophy of mind, environmental ethics, the history of ideas and comparative philosophy.  Many of these have been co-authored with Dr Norva Y S Lo, formerly of La Trobe University.

He has also written on the ethics of care in animal research and was for eight years chair of the animal ethics committee at the University of Western Australia. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor at La Trobe he was for several years, responsible for oversight of the University’s animal facilities

After his retirement in 2015, he served from 2016 to 2023 as the Ombudsman for the University.