Rate My Professor Jennifer Duke-Yonge

Jennifer Duke-Yonge is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Education in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2001, with a thesis entitled Semantic Paradoxes in Natural Language, and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the same institution in 1995, titled A Reappraisal of Determinism. Her research focuses on philosophical and pedagogical aspects of reasoning, the practice of teaching, epistemology, and logic. Duke-Yonge has published several peer-reviewed articles, including "Replacing Truth" in Analysis (2016), "Ownership, Authorship and External Justification" in Acta Analytica (2013), and a review of Nicholas J.J. Smith's Logic: The Laws of Truth in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (2014). Recent collaborative works include "We Need to Talk about GenAI Grading and Tutoring Systems" (2025) and its Portuguese translation "Precisamos de Falar sobre os Sistemas de Avaliação e Tutoria da Inteligência Artificial Generativa".

In her career at Macquarie University, she has advanced from Associate Lecturer, recognized in the 2009 Annual Report for fostering communities of enquiry across diverse learning contexts, to her current senior leadership role. She is affiliated with the Ethics and Agency Research Centre and contributes to innovative teaching tools, such as a digital tool for argument standardisation in critical thinking courses. Duke-Yonge convenes and lectures in key units including PHIL1031: The Philosophy of Human Nature, PHIX1037: Critical Thinking, PHIL2056: Knowledge, Language and Power, ARTS3000: Social, Cultural and Ethical Action, FOAR7001: Research Communications, and FOAR7002: Research Frontiers. Her scholarship bridges philosophy and pedagogy, enhancing critical reasoning and student engagement in epistemology and logic.