Fax: 902-420-5823Room: MN508
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Regular Hours: 9:00am to 12:00 pm & 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Degrees: BA (Hon) (UBC), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Penn)
Teaching: History of philosophy; critical thinking
Research
Room: MN530
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)
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Dalhouse), M.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Western)
Room: MN529Office Hours:
Homepage: https://tccalderdotcom.wordpress.com/
Teaching: Ethics; Evil; Sex and Sexuality
Publications: https://tccalderdotcom.wordpress.com/research/
Professor
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (Saint Mary’s), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Room: MN526Office Hours:
Teaching: Argumentation Theory; Philosophical Foundations of Education; David Hume; Critical Thinking; Ethics of Belief
Publications: “Teaching for Inquiry,” Paideia (2010); “Teaching for Argumentative Thought,” Teaching Philosophy (2009)
Room: MN525
Teaching: The Empiricists; Bioethics; Business Ethics; Ethics and the Law; Environmental Ethics; Political Philosophy; Critical Thinking
Research: Developmental change; learning; philosophical anthropology; critical psychology; development of consciousness and self-consciousness in ontogeny; philosophy of nature; labour and union issues
Room: MN522Office Hours:
Degrees: B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D. (Western)
Teaching: Scientific Method; Science and Society; Philosophical Issues in Feminism; Environmental Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; Feminist Philosophy
Publications
Room: MN532Office Hours:
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (McGill), M.A. (Toronto), M.Phil. (Exeter), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Teaching: Aesthetics; Aristotle and the Hellenists; Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Art; Kant; Philosophy and Literature; Philosophy and Film; Philosophy of History; Philosophy of Language
Publications: “Narrative Rhyme and the Good Life,” Philosophy and Literature (forthcoming); “Frank Sibley,” in Michael Kelley (ed.) Encyclopedia of Aesthetics [Second Edition] (Oxford University Press; 2014); “The Road to Wellnessville,” Philosophy and Literature (October 2013); “Spells of Trauma in Catherine Bush’s Minus Time,” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (2010); 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)
Undergraduate advisor and graduate coordinator
Teaching: Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Ethics, and Philosophy of Law.
Website
Room: MN524
Home Page: http://professormarkmercer.ca/
Degrees: B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Teaching: Epistemology; Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Plato and the Presocratics
Publications: “Why Scholars Won’t Research Group Differences,” Academic Questions (2020); “Academic Freedom of Thought,” Prospero (2017); “Why Study Philosophy?”, Philosophy for the Curious: Why Study Philosophy (2015); “The New Old Atheism,” Open Letters Monthly: An Arts and Literature Review (2011); “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)
Degrees: B.A. (Hons) (Acadia), M.A. (East Anglia), M.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Degrees: B.Eng. (NSTC), B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Dalhousie), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Publications: Informal Logic: Issues and Techniques (1997); Argument Evaluation (1984)