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]
Donald C. Ainslie | |
|---|---|
| 16th Principal of University College, Toronto | |
| In office 2011 – 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sylvia Bashevkin |
| Succeeded by | Markus Stock |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Pittsburgh (PhD) Queen's University at Kingston (BA) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
Main interests | early modern philosophy, bioethics |
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
edit- 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
edit- ↑ Schmitt, Frederick F. (28 August 2016). "Review of Hume's True Scepticism". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ↑ Schafer, Karl (3 July 2017). "Hume's True Scepticism, by Donald Ainslie: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xiv + 286, £40 (hardback)". Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 95 (3): 600–603. doi:10.1080/00048402.2016.1203964. ISSN 0004-8402. S2CID 171483973.
- ↑ 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. S2CID 171905925.
- ↑ Shand, John (1 October 2016). "The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise". The Philosophical Quarterly. 66 (265): 887–889. doi:10.1093/pq/pqv103. ISSN 0031-8094.
- ↑ "UC Alumni Magazine Fall 2019 by University College, University of Toronto - Issuu". issuu.com. 6 September 2019.
- ↑ "Bio" (PDF).
External links
edit- "Donald C. Ainslie". University of Toronto.