Philosophy Faculty
Dr. Mark Mercer
Department Chair and Undergraduate Advisor 
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Teaching: Epistemology; Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Plato and the Presocratics
Publications : “In Defence of Believing Wishfully,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY (2010). “The Significance of Christmas for Liberal Multiculturalism,” CHRISTMAS: PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE (2010); "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)
Home Page: markmercer
Phone: 902-420-5825
mark.mercer@smu.ca
Room: MN524
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 10 am to noon and 2 pm to 4 pm.
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Professors
Dr. Shelagh Crooks 
On leave until July 1, 2012
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Saint Mary's), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Teaching: Argumentation Theory; Philosophical Foundations of Education; Honors Seminar (The Philosophy of David Hume); Critical Thinking; Theory of Knowledge: Ethics of Belief
Publications
"Teaching for Inquiry," PAIDEIA (2010); "Teaching for Argumentative Thought," TEACHING PHILOSOPHY (2009)
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Dr. Sheldon Wein
Degrees: B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Teaching: Ethical Issues in International Development; International Justice; Critical Thinking; Philosophy of Law
Home Page: http://husky1.smu.ca/~swein/
Phone: 902-420-5797
sheldon.wein@gmail.com
Room: MN 531
Office Hours:
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Associate Professors
Dr. Lisa Gannett 
Degrees: B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D. (UWO )
Teaching: Scientific Method; Science and Society; Philosophical Issues in Feminism; Environmental Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; Feminist Philosophy
Publications: Publications
Homepage: Lisa Gannett
Phone: 902-420-5822
lisa.gannett@smu.ca
Room: MN522
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 2-4 p.m., or by appointment
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Dr. Chris MacDonald 
On leave until May 2012
Degrees: B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D. (UBC)
Teaching: Business Ethics; Critical Thinking; Ethics and the Law
Publications : http://www.ethicsweb.ca/pubs.html
Home Page: http://www.ethicsweb.ca/aboutchris.html
Phone 902-420-5820
chris.macdonald@smu.ca
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Dr. John E. MacKinnon 
Graduate Coordinator
Degrees : B.A. (Hons.) (McGill), M.A. (Toronto), M.Phil. (Exeter), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Teaching: Aesthetics: The Classical Tradition; Aesthetics: Contemporary Issues; Philosophy of Law; Ethics and the Law; Political Philosophy; Philosophy and Literature
Publications: " Spells of Trauma in Catherine Bush's Minus Time ," JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS (forthcoming) ; Review of Douglas Walton's Abductive Reasoning , REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS (2006); "Risk and Resilience in Catherine Bush's Minus Time ," 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," AESTHETIC CONCEPTS: ESSAYS AFTER SIBLEY (2001); "Scruton, Sibley, and Supervenience," JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM (2000); Review of Peter Kivy's Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance , MIND (2000)
Phone: 902-420-5821
john.mackinnon@smu.ca
Room: MN532
Office Hours:
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Assistant Professors
Dr. Robert N. Ansell
Degrees: B.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Glasgow)
Teaching: Human Freedom; Philosophies of Life; Business Ethics
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)
Phone: 902-420-5819
robert.ansell@smu.ca
Room: MN530
Office Hours : Mon-Thurs, 8.30-10.00 am.
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Dr. Todd Calder
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Dalhouse), M. A. (Calgary), Ph. D. (UWO)
Teaching: Ethics; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Language; The Rationalists; 19th Century Existentialism
Publications: "Shared Responsibility, Global Justice, and Restitution," SOCIAL THEORY AND PRACTICE (2010); "The Prevalence of Evil," EVIL, POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND FORGIVENESS; "Is the Privation Theory of Evil Dead?", AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY (2007); "Against Consequentialist Theories of Virtue and Vice," UTILITAS (2007); "Kant and Degrees of Wrongness," JOURNAL OF VALUE INQUIRY (2005)
Phone: 902-420-5826
todd.calder@smu.ca
Room: MN529
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2:30-5:30
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Part-Time Faculty
Dr. Carmel Forde
Degrees : B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Teaching: 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; Ethics and the Law
Phone : 902-420-5818
cforde@dal.ca
Room: MN525
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2:30-5:30
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Professor Sheila Kindred 
Degrees : B.A. (Hons.) (UWO), M.A. (Toronto)
Teaching: Critical Thinking; Bioethics
Publications: “New Poison Down an Old Well: The Press and Subversive Argumentation,” ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ISSA CONFERENCE ON ARGUMENTATION, (1995). “Resort to Persuasive Authority: The Use and Abuse of Legal Argument in Political Discourse”, co-authored with Hugh M. Kindred, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF ARGUMENTATION, 2007
Phone: 902-420-5818
sheila.kindred@smu.ca
Room: MN525
Office Hours : M & W 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
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Dr. Hendricus Van Wilgenburg 
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Acadia), M.A., M.E.S., Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
Teaching: Environmental and Agricultural Ethics
Publications: (with S. H. Stewart, B. S. Simon , M. N. Comeau, C. J. Mushquash, P. Collins) "Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents in Aboriginal Schools: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope," DEPRESSION RESEARCH AND TREATMENT (forthcoming); "Atlantic Canada: Pursuing a Story of Adaption," ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT, PRACTICE AND PARTICIPATION IN CANADA (2nd ed.) (2009); "Ethics in Forestry: For a Professional, Merely Being Scientific Doesn't Cut it"ATLANTIC FORESTRY REVIEW (2009)
Other: External evaluator for SEEING ONESELF® Youth Initiative, Winnipeg, MN; Treaty 4 Student Success Program, Fort Qu'Appelle, SK; 9 HEAVENS HEALING ACADEMY Gang Intervention and Exit Initiative, Toronto, ON
Phone: 902-420-5818
hvanwilgenb@gmail.com
Room: MN523
Office Hours : Mon. & Wed. 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm & Tue. & Thurs. 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Or by appointment.
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Professor Emeritus
Dr. Wayne Grennan 
Degrees: B.Eng. (NSTC), B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Dalhousie), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Major Publications: INFORMAL LOGIC: ISSUES AND TECHNIQUES (1997); ARGUMENT EVALUTATION (1984)
wgrennan@eastlink.ca
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Departmental Secretary
Kathleen Jewell
Phone: 902-420-5823
Fax : 902-491-6286
Room : MN508
Office Hours :
September 1 to May 30 - Mon to Fri - 8:00 am to 12 noon and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
June 1 to August 31: Mon to Fri - 8:00 am to 12 noon and 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
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