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Philosophy
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| John MacKinnon |
MN532 |
| Mark Mercer |
MN524 |
| Shelagh Crooks |
MN526 |
| Lisa Gannet |
MN522 |
| Chris MacDonald |
MN523 |
| Robert Ansell |
MN530 |
| Sheldon Wein |
MN531 |
| Sheila Kindred |
MN529 |
| Peter Heron |
MN529 |
| Carmel Forde |
MN525 |
| Todd Calder |
MN525 |
| Kathleen Jewell (Secretary) |
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Chairperson:
Dr. John E. MacKinnon
Associate Professor
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (McGill), M.A. (Toronto),
M.Phil. (Exeter), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Recent Courses Taught: Aesthetics: The Classical
Tradition; Aesthetics: Contemporary Issues; Philosophy of Law;
Ethics and the Law; Political Philosophy; Philosophy and Literature
Recent Publications: Review of Douglas Walton's Abductive Reasoning, in REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS 59 (2006); "Risk and Resilience in Catherine Bush's Minus Time," in THE JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (2006); "Law and Tenderness
in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader," LAW AND LITERATURE (2004); "Crime,
Compassion, and The Reader," PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE (2003); "Aesthetic
Supervenience: For and Against," BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS
(2001); "Heroism and Reversal: Sibley on Aesthetic Supervenience," in
Emily Brady and Jerrold Levinson (eds.) AESTHETIC CONCEPTS: ESSAYS
AFTER SIBLEY, Oxford (2001); "Scruton, Sibley, and Supervenience," JOURNAL
OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM (2000); Review of Peter Kivy's Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance, in MIND 109 (2000).
john.mackinnon@smu.ca
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Dr. Sheldon Wein
Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Recent Courses Taught: Ethical Issues in International
Development; International Justice; Critical Thinking; Philosophy of Law
Home Page: http://husky1.smu.ca/~swein/
sheldon.wein@gmail.com
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Associate
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Dr. Shelagh Crooks
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Saint Mary's), M.A.
(Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
shelagh.crooks@smu.ca
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Dr. Lisa Gannett
Degrees: B.Sc. (UWO ), M.A. ( UWO), Ph.D. (UWO )
Recent Courses Taught: Philosophy of Science; Analytic Philosophy; Philosophical Issues in Feminism; Political Philosophy: The Classic Texts; The Empiricists; Environmental Ethics; Science and Society; Philosophy of Biology
Recent Publications: "Genes and Society," in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY (2007, edited by Michael Ruse); “Group Categories in Pharmacogenetics Research,” PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (2005); “Classical Genetics and the Geography of Genes” and “The ABO Blood Groups: Mapping the History and Geography of Genes in Homo sapiens” (co-authored by James R. Griesemer), in CLASSICAL GENETICS RESEARCH AND ITS LEGACY: THE MAPPING CULTURES OF TWENTIETH CENTURY GENETICS (2004; edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Jean-Paul Gaudillière; published by Routledge); “Making Populations: Bounding Genes in Space and in Time,” PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (2003); “The Normal Genome in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Thought,” STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (2003); “Racism and Human Genome Diversity Research: The Ethical Limits of ‘Population Thinking,’” PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (2001); “What's in a Cause? The Pragmatic Dimensions of Genetic Explanations,” BIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY (1999)
lisa.gannett@smu.ca
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Dr. Chris MacDonald
Degrees: B.A. (Trent), M.A. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC)
Recent Courses Taught: Business Ethics, Critical Thinking, Ethics & the Law
Home Page: http://www.ethicsweb.ca/aboutchris.html
Recent Publications: http://www.ethicsweb.ca/pubs.html
chris.macdonald@smu.ca
Dr. MacDonald is the Department's Graduate Program Coordinator
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Dr. Mark Mercer
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Carleton), M.A. (Carleton),
Ph.D. (Toronto)
Recent Courses Taught: Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Plato and the Presocratics
Recent Publications: " Folk Psychology's Epistemic Credentials," FACTA PHILOSOPHICA (2007); “Metaphor and Sentence Meaning,” FACTA PHILOSOPHICA (2006); "In Defence of Weak
Psychological Egoism," ERKENNTNIS (2001); "Grounds
of Liberal Tolerance," JOURNAL OF VALUE INQUIRY (1999); "Psychological
Egoism and Its Critics," SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
(1998).
mark.mercer@smu.ca
Dr. Mercer is the Department's Undergraduate Advisor.
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Assistant
Professors |
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Dr. Robert
N. Ansell
Degrees: B.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Glasgow)
Recent Courses Taught: Human Freedom; Philosophies
of Life; Business Ethics
Recent Publications: "The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and Multinational Corporations in the Third World" (co-author:
W.L. Archer), UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK LAW JOURNAL (1998)
robert.ansell@smu.ca
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Part-Time
Faculty
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Dr. Carmel Forde
Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ph.D (York)
- teaches Critical Thinking; Introduction to Philosophy; Aesthetics; Kant's Theory of Knowledge; Symbolic Logic; Political Philosophy: Classic Texts; The Empiricists; Law, Justice, Morality and Existentialism; Philosophy of Human Nature and Ethics and the Law.
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Peter Heron
Dergees: B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Brock), Ph.D (Ottawa)
- teaches Critical Thinking; Introduction to Philosophy; Ethics and the Law; Contemporary Political Philosophy; Late Modern Philosophy: Kant
Professor Sheila Kindred
Degrees: B.A. (UWO), M.A. (Toronto)
- teaches Critical Thinking; Bioethics.
Dr. Todd Calder
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Dalhouse), M. A. (University of Calgary), Ph. D. (University of Western Ontario)
Recent Publications:
“Shared Responsibility, Global Justice, and Restitution,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 36, No. 2 (April 2010), forthcoming.
“The Prevalence of Evil.” In Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness (Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers), forthcoming 2009.
“Is the Privation Theory of Evil Dead?” American Philosophical Quarterly 44, No. 4 (Oct., 2007): pp. 371-381.
“Against Consequentialist Theories of Virtue and Vice.” Utilitas 19, No. 2 (June 2007): pp. 201-219.
“Kant and Degrees of Wrongness.” Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (2005): pp. 229-244.
Professors Emeriti
Dr. Wayne Grennan, E-Mail: wgrennan@eastlink.ca
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Departmental
Secretary |
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Kathleen Jewell
Phone (902) 420-5823. Email: kathleen.jewell@smu.ca |
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