Biography:Graeme Nicholson

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Graeme Nicholson
Born1936
Era21st century Philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy, existentialism, hermeneutics, anarchism

Graeme Nicholson (30 September 1936 — 21 February 2021) was a Canadian philosopher and Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto known for his research on ontology, hermeneutics, and anarchism.[1][2] He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto with a thesis on Heidegger directed by Emil Fackenheim.[3]

Bibliography

  • Justifying Our Existence: An Essay in Applied Phenomenology (New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics), 2009
  • Plato's Phaedrus: The Philosophy of Love (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy), 1999
  • Illustrations of Being: Drawing upon Heidegger and upon Metaphysics (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences), Humanity Books, 1992
  • Seeing and Reading (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences), Palgrave Macmillan, 1984
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry and History, 1992
  • Heidegger’s Being and Time: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics Series), 2005

See also

  • Philosophy in Canada

References

  1. Nicholson at the University of Toronto
  2. John Tietz (1995). Review of Graeme Nicholson 'Illustrations of Being: Drawing upon Heidegger and upon Metaphysics' Dialogue, 34, pp 171-173. doi:10.1017/S0012217300049404.
  3. Minerva's Aviary: Philosophy at Toronto (1843-2003), John G. Slater, University of Toronto Press, pp393-394