Cynthia Macdonald (philosopher)
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Cynthia Macdonald is a British philosopher and academic, and is a full professor at the University of Manchester, specialising in mind-body identity theory, and metaphysics. She is a professor emerita at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Academic career
Macdonald completed BPhil and MPhil degrees at the University of Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Cynthia Macdonald |url=https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cynthia.macdonald |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Research Explorer The University of Manchester |language=en}} Her DPhil thesis, completed in 1984, was titled Events and mind-body identity.{{Cite thesis|type=DPhil thesis|last=Macdonald|first=Cynthia|title=Events and mind-body identity |publisher=University of Oxford|date=1984|url=https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/35n82s/alma990117160540107026}} Macdonald first lectured at the University of Manchester, before joining the faculty of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1998, where she was appointed full professor. Macdonald was Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast from 2005 to 2011.{{Cite web |title=McDowell and His Critics {{!}} Wiley |url=https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/McDowell+and+His+Critics-p-9781405106238 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Wiley.com |language=en-ca}} Macdonald then rejoined the faculty of the University of Manchester. She was appointed professor emerita at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 2009.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-23 |title=Professores Emeriti, Honorary Doctorates, and Canterbury Distinguished Professors {{!}} University of Canterbury |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/our-structure/leadership-and-governance/university-council/council-committees/professores-emeriti-hon-docs-and-distinguished-professors |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.canterbury.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Cynthia Macdonald |url=https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/cynthia-macdonald |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Queen's University Belfast |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=University of Canterbury |title=Academic profile: Emeritus Professor Cynthia Macdonald |url=https://profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/Cynthia-Macdonald/about |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=profiles.canterbury.ac.nz}}
Macdonald's research is on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and cognitive science. Macdonald received a Marsden grant on the metaphysics of mental causation with Graham Macdonald, also an emeritus professor at Canterbury. Macdonald has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mind Association. Macdonald was awarded the Belle van Zuylen Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Utrecht University in 1995.{{Cite web |title=University of Utrecht |url=https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/university-of-utrecht-2 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Queen's University Belfast |language=en}} She has also been a visiting professor at Rutgers University and Columbia University.
Macdonald is a Consulting Editor for the Swedish journal Theoria, and was on the consulting board of the University of Manchester postgraduate-edited journal Praxis.{{Cite web |last=Wiley Online Library |title=Theoria Editorial Board |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17552567/homepage/editorialboard.html |access-date=19 February 2024 |website=Wiley Online}}
Selected works
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Authored and edited books
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- Cynthia Macdonald (1989). Mind-Body Identity Theories. Routledge, London.
- Cynthia Macdonald; Graham Macdonald. (editors; January 1991). Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume 2. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19745-4
Journal articles
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References
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Category:Academics of the University of Manchester
Category:Academics of Queen's University Belfast