About. BCom (Applied Psychology) (UNSW), PhD (Psychology) (Macq) Professor of Management Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Sydney, Australia) Professor Spillane teaches philosophy in the hope that it will be applied to management and psychology in the hope that it will not.
Professor Spillane teaches philosophy in the hope that it will be applied to management and psychology in the hope that it will not. Following eight years with BP and Philips, he joined the School of Behavioural Sciences at Macquarie University in 1972 and accepted a full-time position at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in 1976. From 1989 to 1991 he was Dean of MGSM. Nominalism. Nominalism refers to either of two philosophical positions regarding what exists.
Nominalism may refer to a position that denies the existence of universal entities or objects, but accepts that particular objects or entities exist. It may refer to denial of the existence of abstract objects or entities, while accepting the existence of concrete objects or entities. Each position is contrasted with nihilism, which denies the existence of everything.