Dr Thomas Mautner joined the Australian National University as Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts on 10 January 1965. He was appointed to Senior Lecturer on 1 July 1972. His teaching and research interests have include history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, moral and political thought, natural law, and natural rights. He is editor of the Dictionary of Philosophy (1996) and the Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy (1998). Since 1999 Mautner has been Visiting Fellow of the Department of Philosophy at the ANU.