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Name: John James Macintosh Nationality: Canadian Degrees: B.A. University of New Zealand (Now University of Auckland), 1957 Name: John James MacIntosh Nationality: Canadian Degrees: B.A. University of New Zealand (now University of Auckland), 1957 M.A. University of New Zealand (now University of Auckland), 1958 B. Phil. University of Oxford, 1961 Teaching: 1959 Junior Lecturer, University of Auckland 1960-61 Part-time tutoring, Merton College, Oxford 1961-63 Research lecturer, Merton College, Oxford 1963-66 Fellow and lecturer, St. John's College, Oxford 1964-66 C.U.F. lecturer, University of Oxford 1966-70 Associate Professor, University of Calgary 1970-71 Canada Council Research Fellow 1970-present Professor, University of Calgary 1981 Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo (Spring Session) 1981 Visiting Professor, University of Auckland 1981 SSHRC Research Fellow 1983 University of Calgary Humanities Institute Fellow 1989 Visiting Professor, University of Auckland 1999-2000 University of Calgary Humanities Institute Research Fellow 1999-2002 SSHRC Research Fellow 2003 Killam Resident Fellow, University of Calgary 2004-5 Programme Director, metaphysics, history of philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting Current Areas of Specialization: History of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Identity Theory, Philosophy of Religion Teaching experience: (omitting introductory courses): bioethics, contemporary philosophy, early modern science and religion, epistemology, ethics, history and philosophy of science, history of philosophy (mainly: stoics, various twelfth to fourteenth century philosophers, various seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers, 20th century philosophy), Iberian philosophy (classical and mediaeval), logic, metaphysics, philosophy in literature, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, political philosophy. I have also taught joint classes on one or more occasions with members of the Departments of Biology, History, Mathematics, Psychology, and with other philosophers in the Universities of Auckland, Oxford, and Calgary. 2 Graduate supervision has been mainly in the areas of Epistemology, Ethics, Logic, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion Students' Union Teaching Award 2007-8 Papers read, on one or more occasions, to various departments, institutes, schools, at the following universities: Alberta; Auckland; Birmingham; British Columbia; Calgary; Cambridge; Canterbury (Christchurch); Dalhousie; Edinburgh; Hanover; Keele; Lethbridge; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Queensland); Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (Toronto); Manchester; Massey (Palmerston North); National University of Ireland (Maynooth); Newcastle; North Carolina; Ottawa; Oxford; Queensland; Queen's University of Belfast; Regina; Saskatchewan; Simon Fraser; Toronto; Trinity College (Dublin); Victoria (Canada); Uppsala; Washington; Waterloo; Western Ontario; York (Canada) and on one or more occasions to the following societies or conferences: Alberta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference; Alberta Universities Philosophical Association; American Philosophical Association; Apeiron Society; Aristotelian Society; Arthur Prior Memorial Conference (Christchurch); Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Australasian Association of Logic; Australasian Association of Philosophy; Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand Division; Berkeley Tercentenary Conference (Dublin); Canadian Association for Irish Studies; Canadian Philosophical Association; Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers; Canadian Society for Epistemology; Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science; Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas; Descartes 400 Conference (Toronto); Descartes Workshop (Toronto); Dubrovnik International Universities Centre Ethics conference; Dubrovnik International Universities Centre Philosophy of Science conference; Epicureanism and Stoicism Conference (Calgary); Eternal Truths Conference (Calgary); First International Conference on Thinking (Suva); (U. S.) History of Science Society; History of Logic Workshop (Wellington); History of Neurology Interest Group, University of Calgary; Humanities Institute, University of Calgary; John Locke Tercentenary Conference (Oxford); Joint conference, Cheiron, The international Society for the History of Behavioural and Social Sciences, and ISHN, The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences; Jowett Society (Oxford); Leibniz Gesellschaft (Hanover); Mind Association/Aristotelian Society Joint Session; Mont Tremblant conference on 'Changing conceptions of "Life" from the mediaeval to the early modern period'; Moral Sciences Club (Cambridge); Newman Society (Oxford); New Zealand Kant Conference (Auckland); Ockham Society (Oxford); Oxford Socratic Society; Pascal Society (Ottawa); Philosophical Society (Oxford); Philosophy of Mind Conference in Honour of William Lyons (Dublin); Royal Irish Academy Conference on Metaphysics (Dublin); Royal Philosophical Society, Belfast; Royal Philosophical Society, London; Royal Philosophical Society, Newcastle; University of British 3 Columbia/Simon Fraser University History of Philosophy Conference; Society of Canadian Medievalists; Southwest Logic Conference; Stalbridge Boyle Symposium; 12th International Conference on Persons (Lund); University of Calgary Chaplains' Association; University of Calgary History and Philosophy of Science Group; University of Calgary Undergraduate Philosophy Society; Western Canada Philosophical Association; World Congress of Philosophy. Editing: 1975-78: Board of Referees, Dialogue 1982-87: Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2000-present: Board of Referees, Dialogue Refereeing (papers, books, book proposals), on one or more occasions for: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Broadview Publishing Co.; Cambridge University Press; Canadian Graduate Students Philosophy Conference; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Philosophical Association; Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science; Cornell University Press; Dialogue; Edinburgh University Press; Eidos; Hackett Publishing Co.; Interchange; Kluwer Academic Publishers; McGill-Queens University Press; Mind; Osiris; Oxford University Press; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; University of Calgary Press; University of Ottawa Press; Western Canada Philosophical Association Assessing (promotions, tenure, research proposals, programmes, departments) on one or more occasions for: Auburn University; Auckland University; Connaught Fund; Hampton Fund; Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto; McMaster University; Mount Royal University, Calgary; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada; University of Alberta; University of British Columbia; University of Guelph; University of Saskatchewan; University of Toronto; Wilfrid Laurier University Books: 1. The Business of Reason, ed. with S. Coval (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969) 2. The First Critique, ed. with T. Penelhum (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1969) 3. New Essays in the Philosophy of Mind, II, ed. with D. Copp (Guelph: Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, 1985) 4. Faith, Scepticism, and Personal Identity, ed. with H. Meynell (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994) 5. Boyle on Atheism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 6. The Excellencies of Robert Boyle (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2008) 7. The Arguments of Aquinas: A Philosophical View (New York: Routledge, 2017) 4 Other Publications: 1. 'Francis Bacon,' in R. Harré, ed., Early Seventeenth Century Science and Scientists (Oxford: Pergammon Press, 1965), 25-47. 2. 'On Logic,' Oxford Magazine, 1966. 3. 'Is Self-Knowledge Incorrigible?,' Common Factor, 1966, 57- 61. 4. 'Transcendental Arguments,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol., 1969, 181-193. 5. 'Memory and Personal Identity,' in J. J. MacIntosh and S. Coval, eds., The Business of Reason (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), 150-167. 6. 'Belief In,' Mind, 1970, 395-407. 7. 'Leibniz and Berkeley,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1971, 147-163. 8. 'Spinoza's Views on Knowledge,' in G. Vesey, ed., Reason and Reality (London: Macmillan, 1972), 28-48. 9. 'Roles and Role Playing,' Second Order, 1972, 53-73. 10. 'A Problem About Identity,' Dialogue, 1974, 455-474. 11. 'Primary and Secondary Qualities,' Studia Leibnitiana, 8, 1976, 88-104. 12. 'Berkeley's Views on Time,' in Jarrett, C. E., King-Farlow, J, and Pelletier, F. J., eds, New Essays on Rationalism and Empiricism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supp. vol. 4, (Guelph: Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, 1978) 153-163. 13. 'An Extension of a Proof of Prior's,' Analysis, 1980, 86-89. 14. 'Knowing and Believing,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1979-80, 169-185 15. 'The Impossibility of Kantian Immortality,' Dialogue, 19, 1980, 219-234. 16. 'The Logic of Privileged Access,' Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61, 1983, 142- 151. 17. 'Perception and Imagination in Descartes, Boyle and Hooke,' Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 13, 1983, 327-352. 18. 'Some Propositional Attitude Paradoxes,' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1984, 21- 25. 19. 'Fitch's Factives,' Analysis, 44.4, 1984, 153-158. 20. 'A Reasonable Belief?' in H. Meynell, ed. Religion and Irreligion (Calgary: University of Calgary Press,
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