Donald C. Ainslie

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] Ainslie served as Principal of University College, Toronto between 2011 and 2020.[5] He is a winner of the Journal of the History of Philosophy prize in 2016 for his book Hume’s True Scepticism.[6]

Donald C. Ainslie
EducationUniversity of Pittsburgh (PhD), Queen's University at Kingston (BA)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Main interests
early modern philosophy, bioethics

Books
  • 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
  1. Schmitt, Frederick F. (28 August 2016). "Review of Hume's True Scepticism". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "UC Alumni Magazine Fall 2019 by University College, University of Toronto - Issuu". issuu.com. 6 September 2019.
  6. "Bio" (PDF).


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