Biography:Cheryl Misak

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Cheryl J. Misak FRSC (born July 16, 1961)[1] is a Canadian philosopher who works in pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics.[2] She is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,[3] and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in intellectual and cultural history.[4] In 2011, Misak served as provost of the University of Toronto, president of the Charles S. Peirce Society.[5] In December 2020, Misak became the interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.[6]

Misak was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta.[7] She received her BA from the University of Lethbridge, her MA from Columbia University, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford.[3]

Publications

Authored Books

  • Misak, Cheryl J. (2020). Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-875535-7. OCLC 1102642049. [8][9][10]
  • 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. [11][12][13]
  • Misak, Cheryl J. (2013). The American Pragmatists. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-165138-0. OCLC 828143682. [14]
  • Misak, Cheryl J. (2000). Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-16228-6. OCLC 179161004. 
  • Misak, Cheryl J. (1995) Verificationism: Its History and Prospects (Philosophical Issues in Science). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12597-9.
  • 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. 

Edited Books

  • Misak, Cheryl; Price, Huw, eds. (2017). The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century. The British Academy
  • Misak, Cheryl, ed. (2008). The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
  • Misak, Cheryl, ed. (2007). New Pragmatists. Oxford University Press.
  • Misak, Cheryl, ed (2004-07-12). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/ccol0521570069. ISBN 978-0-521-57006-0. 

Selected Papers

References

  1. ↑ The Canadian Who's Who. Toronto : University of Toronto Press. 2004. pp. 918. ISBN 978-0-8020-4913-1. https://archive.org/details/canadianwhoswho0039unse/page/918/mode/1up. 
  2. ↑ "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. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Cheryl Misak". University of Toronto. https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/cheryl-misak/. 
  4. ↑ "Cheryl Misak" (in en-US). Universities Canada. https://www.univcan.ca/innovators/cheryl-misak/. 
  5. ↑ 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. 
  6. ↑ "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/. 
  7. ↑ 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. 
  8. ↑ 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. 
  9. ↑ 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. 
  10. ↑ 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. 
  11. ↑ 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. 
  12. ↑ Preston, John (October 2017). "Review of Cambridge Pragmatism" (in en). Philosophical Investigations 40 (4): 443–448. doi:10.1111/phin.12171. 
  13. ↑ 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. 
  14. ↑ 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. 




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