Peter Simons (academic)
Template:Short description Template:More footnotes needed Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Template:Infobox philosopher Peter Murray Simons, Template:Post-nominals (born 23 March 1950) is a British retired philosopher and academic. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he is now professor emeritus.<ref name="WW 23">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is known for his work with Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith on metaphysics and the history of Austrian philosophy.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Since 2018 he is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
BiographyEdit
Simons studied at the University of Manchester, and has held teaching posts at the University of Bolton, from which he holds an honorary doctorate, the University of Salzburg, where he is Honorary Professor of Philosophy, and the University of Leeds. He has been President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy and is current director of the Franz Brentano Foundation.
His research interests include metaphysics and ontology, the history of logic, the history of Central European Philosophy, particularly in Austria and Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the application of metaphysics to engineering and other non-philosophical disciplines. He is the author or co-author of five books and over 290 articles.
AwardsEdit
- FBA: Fellow of the British Academy (elected July 2004)<ref name="FBA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Member of Academia Europaea (elected 2006)<ref name="CV">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2013)
- Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (elected 2018)
PublicationsEdit
- Parts. A Study In Ontology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski. Selected Essays, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>