Peter Simons (academic)
{{Short description|British philosopher}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
| region = Western philosophy
| era = Contemporary philosophy
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| name = Peter Simons
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|3|23|df=y}}
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| school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
| main_interests = Ontology
| influences = Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano
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| notable_ideas = Truthmaker theory
| doctoral_advisor = Wolfe Mays
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Peter Murray Simons, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|FBA|size=100%}} (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;{{cite web |title=E.J. Lowe Lecture 2022: Professor Peter Simons |url=https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/philosophy/about-us/events/ej-lowe-lecture-2022-professor-peter-simons/ |website=Durham University |access-date=23 September 2022 |quote=Peter Simons is former Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin}} he is now professor emeritus.{{cite web |title=Simons, Prof. Peter Murray, (born 23 March 1950), Professor of Moral Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, 2009–16, now Emeritus |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U4000728 |website=Who's Who 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=18 June 2023 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}} He is known for his work with Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith on metaphysics and the history of Austrian philosophy.{{cite journal |last1=Mulligan, Simons, Smith |first1=Kevin, Peter, Barry |title=Truth-Makers |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |date=1984 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=287–321 |doi=10.2307/2107686 |jstor=2107686 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/MULT |access-date=23 September 2022|url-access=subscription }} Since 2018 he is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020|title=Professors|url=https://www.usi.ch/en/education/master/philosophy/professors|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2020|website=usi.ch - Master in Philosophy}}
Biography
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.
Awards
- FBA: Fellow of the British Academy (elected July 2004){{cite web |title=Professor Peter Simons FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/peter-simons-FBA/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=18 June 2023 |language=en}}
- Member of Academia Europaea (elected 2006){{cite web |title=Peter Simons: CURRICULUM VITAE |url=https://www.ae-info.org/attach/User/Simons_Peter/CV/CV_Simons.pdf |website=ae-info.org |publisher=Academia Europaea |access-date=18 June 2023 |date=18 October 2009}}
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2013)
- Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (elected 2018)
Publications
- Parts. A Study In Ontology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.{{cite journal |last1=Doepke |first1=Frederick |title=Review: Parts, A Study in Ontology |journal=Noûs |date=June 1991 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=393–396 |doi=10.2307/2215517 |jstor=2215517 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2215517 |access-date=23 September 2022|url-access=subscription }}
- Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski. Selected Essays, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992.{{cite journal |last1=Falkenberg |first1=Gabriel |title=Review: Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski |journal=Erkenntnis |date=1975 |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=275–279 |doi=10.1007/BF01128833 |jstor=20012583 |s2cid=189876684 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20012583 |access-date=23 September 2022|url-access=subscription }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.tcd.ie/Philosophy/ Website of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College]
- [http://sites.google.com/site/petermsimons/ Personal webpage]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060929164549/http://www.dif.unige.it/esap/ Website of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy]
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