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	Dr. John E. MacKinnon Chairperson: (until August 31, 2010) 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:"Spells of Trauma in Catherine Bush’s Minus Time,” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (forthcoming) 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). S john.mackinnon@smu.ca
	Professor
	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
	Dr. Shelagh Crooks (Undergraduate Coordinator & Graduate Coordinator) Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Saint Mary's), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Edinburgh) shelagh.crooks@smu.ca
	Associate Professors
	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
	Dr. Chris MacDonald (On leave until the end of this academic year.) 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
	Dr. Mark Mercer ( Incoming Department Chair, September 1, 2010 ) 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.
	Assistant Professors
	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
	Dr. Todd Calder Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Dalhouse), M. A. (University of Calgary), Ph. D. (University of Western Ontario) Recent Courses Taught: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, The Rationalists, 19th Century Existentialism Recent Publications: “Shared Responsibility, Global Justice, and Restitution,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 36, No. 2 (April 2010); “The Prevalence of Evil.” In Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness (Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers); “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.
	Dr. Heidi Tiedke (Sessional)
	Part-Time Faculty
bb	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. Dr. 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; Ethics for Modern Life and Existentialism Professor Sheila Kindred Degrees: B.A. (UWO), M.A. (Toronto) - teaches Critical Thinking; Bioethics. Professors Emeriti Dr. Wayne Grennan, E-Mail: wgrennan@eastlink.ca
	Departmental Secretary
	Kathleen Jewell Phone (902) 420-5823. Email: kathleen.jewell@smu.ca