Biography:Donald C. Ainslie

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Short description: Canadian philosopher
Donald C. Ainslie
16th Principal of University College, Toronto
In office
2011 (2011) – 2019 (2019)
Preceded bySylvia Bashevkin
Succeeded byMarkus Stock
Donald C. Ainslie
EducationUniversity of Pittsburgh (PhD)
Queen's University at Kingston (BA)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Main interests
early modern philosophy, bioethics

Donald C. Ainslie is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is known for his works on early modern philosophy and bioethics.[1][2][3][4]

Ainslie served as the 16th principal of University College, Toronto between 2011 and 2019.[5] He is a winner of the Journal of the History of Philosophy prize in 2016 for his book Hume’s True Scepticism.[6]

Books

  • Hume's True Scepticism, Oxford University Press, 2015
  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise, co-edited with Annemarie Butler, Cambridge University Press, 2015

References

  1. ↑ Schmitt, Frederick F. (28 August 2016). "Review of Hume's True Scepticism" (in en). NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/humes-true-scepticism/. 
  2. ↑ Schafer, Karl (3 July 2017). "Hume's True Scepticism, by Donald Ainslie: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xiv + 286, £40 (hardback)." (in en). Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (3): 600–603. doi:10.1080/00048402.2016.1203964. ISSN 0004-8402. 
  3. ↑ Fosl, Peter S. (11 December 2018). "Hume's True Scepticism, written by Donald C. Ainslie". International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (4): 348–353. doi:10.1163/22105700-20181303. ISSN 2210-5700. 
  4. ↑ Shand, John (1 October 2016). "The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise" (in en). The Philosophical Quarterly 66 (265): 887–889. doi:10.1093/pq/pqv103. ISSN 0031-8094. 
  5. ↑ "UC Alumni Magazine Fall 2019 by University College, University of Toronto - Issuu" (in en). 6 September 2019. https://issuu.com/universitycollegeuoft/docs/uc_magazine_fall_2019_web. 
  6. ↑ "Bio". https://www.unige.ch/cisa/related-sites/ronald-de-sousa/assets/pdf/Ainslie_Bio.pdf. 




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