Biography:Cheryl Misak
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Short description: Canadian philosopher
Cheryl J. Misak FRSC is a Canadian philosopher who works in pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics.[1] She is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,[2] and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in intellectual and cultural history.[3] In 2011, Misak served as president of the Charles S. Peirce Society.[4] In December 2020, Misak became the interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.[5]
Misak was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta.[6] She received her BA from the University of Lethbridge, her MA from Columbia University, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford.[2]
Publications
- Misak, Cheryl J. (2000). Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-16228-6. OCLC 179161004.
- Misak, Cheryl J. (2004). Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-151963-5. OCLC 370946282.
- Misak, Cheryl, ed (2004-07-12). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/ccol0521570069. ISBN 978-0-521-57006-0.
- Misak, Cheryl (August 2005). "ICU Psychosis and Patient Autonomy: Some Thoughts from the Inside". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (4): 411–430. doi:10.1080/03605310591008603. ISSN 0360-5310. PMID 16029990.
- Misak, Cheryl J. (2013). The American Pragmatists. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-165138-0. OCLC 828143682.[7]
- Misak, Cheryl J. (2016-10-18). Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-102004-9. OCLC 957738331.[8][9][10]
- Misak, Cheryl J. (2020). Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-875535-7. OCLC 1102642049.[11][12][13]
References
- ↑ "Pragmatic philosophers: let's just focus on 'the best we can do'". CBC Radio. 2020-04-07. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/pragmatic-philosophers-let-s-just-focus-on-the-best-we-can-do-1.5524895.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Cheryl Misak". University of Toronto. https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/cheryl-misak/.
- ↑ "Cheryl Misak" (in en-US). Universities Canada. https://www.univcan.ca/innovators/cheryl-misak/.
- ↑ Misak, Cheryl (2011). "2011 Presidential Address: American Pragmatism and Indispensability Arguments". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 47 (3): 261. doi:10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.47.3.261.
- ↑ "Welcoming Interim Director Cheryl Misak" (in en-US). Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. December 17, 2020. https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/about/welcoming-interim-director-cheryl-misak/.
- ↑ Kenney, Trevor (2009-01-14). "Athletics helped shape Misak's future". University of Lethbridge. https://www.uleth.ca/unews/article/athletics-helped-shape-misaks-future.
- ↑ Margolis, Joseph (2013-12-24). "Some Remarks on Cheryl Misak's The American Pragmatists". European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 5 (2). doi:10.4000/ejpap.548. ISSN 2036-4091.
- ↑ de Waal, Cornelis (2019). "Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein by Cheryl Misak" (in en). Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (3): 565–566. doi:10.1353/hph.2019.0047. ISSN 1538-4586.
- ↑ Preston, John (October 2017). "Review of Cambridge Pragmatism" (in en). Philosophical Investigations 40 (4): 443–448. doi:10.1111/phin.12171.
- ↑ Capps, John (2017-03-16). "Cheryl Misak, Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein". Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 5 (3). doi:10.15173/jhap.v5i3.3156. ISSN 2159-0303. https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/3156. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
- ↑ Gottlieb, Anthony (2020-04-27). "The Man Who Thought Too Fast" (in en-us). The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
- ↑ Brean, Joseph (2020-06-06). "The Philosopher Kings: How friendship with young prodigy changed one of the most brilliant minds of modern thinking" (in en-CA). https://nationalpost.com/news/oh-the-humanities-the-philosopher-kings.
- ↑ Davenport-Hines, Richard (2020-03-27). "'Frank Ramsey' Review: The Most Genial Genius" (in en-US). The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/frank-ramsey-review-the-most-genial-genius-11585322801.
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