Cheryl Misak
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. (July 12, 2004). 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. (October 18, 2016). 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 . April 7, 2020. Archived from the original on August 18, 2020.
^ a b "Cheryl Misak" . University of Toronto . Archived from the original on August 9, 2020.
^ "Cheryl Misak" . Universities Canada . Archived from the original on August 9, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
^ 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 . S2CID 170361561 .
^ "Welcoming Interim Director Cheryl Misak" . Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy . December 17, 2020. Archived from the original on December 25, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2021 .
^ Kenney, Trevor (January 14, 2009). "Athletics helped shape Misak's future" . University of Lethbridge . Archived from the original on October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
^ Margolis, Joseph (December 24, 2013). "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". Journal of the History of Philosophy . 57 (3): 565–566. doi :10.1353/hph.2019.0047 . ISSN 1538-4586 . S2CID 201765422 .
^ Preston, John (October 2017). "Review of Cambridge Pragmatism ". Philosophical Investigations . 40 (4): 443–448. doi :10.1111/phin.12171 .
^ Capps, John (March 16, 2017). "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 . Archived from the original on June 8, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
^ Gottlieb, Anthony (April 27, 2020). "The Man Who Thought Too Fast" . The New Yorker . Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
^ Brean, Joseph (June 6, 2020). "The Philosopher Kings: How friendship with young prodigy changed one of the most brilliant minds of modern thinking" . National Post . Archived from the original on October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
^ Davenport-Hines, Richard (March 27, 2020). " 'Frank Ramsey' Review: The Most Genial Genius" . The Wall Street Journal . ISSN 0099-9660 . Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020 .
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