Stephen Cade Hetherington

Stephen Cade Hetherington (born 1959) is an Australian analytic philosopher specialising in epistemology and, to a lesser extent, metaphysics. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, a prolific author,

Family Early life The son of the Australian artist, caricaturist, cartoonist, and puppeteer, Norman Frederick Hetherington (1921–2010), and Margaret "Peggy" Hetherington (1923–2022), née Owrid, née Purnell, Stephen Cade Hetherington was born at Sydney in 1959.

He grew up in Mosman, New South Wales, where his father's puppetry collection and workshop were located in the basement beneath the family residence.

Marriage He married the artist Parveen Kaur Seehra in 1990.

Education He attended the opportunity classes (years 5 and 6) at Neutral Bay Public School and, then, attended the academically selective Fort Street High School in Sydney (as had his father, Norman). University of Pittsburgh: Master of Arts (M.A.), 1986.

Puppeteer

In the four years (1977 to 1980) that he studied at the University of Sydney, Hetherington not only operated marionettes part-time in his father's special, highly successful dental health programme for children ("Smiley's Good Teeth Puppet Theatre").

Author His first four publications were written while he was still a student; the first two (Hetherington, 1983a; 1984a), written as an undergraduate student, were derived from papers written for his Honours-year coursework at the University of Sydney,

Academic He commenced his academic career in 1987, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University; and in 1990 he transferred to the philosophy department of the University of New South Wales where he remained until his retirement in late 2020.

Editor-in-chief From December 2013 until March 2022 he was the editor-in-chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a prestigious English-language philosophy journal continuously published since 1923.

He is the editor-in-chief of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Epistemology series and, also, the Bloomsbury Publishing Critical Introductions to Contemporary Epistemology series.

Awards In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).