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Margaret Cameron (philosopher)

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Margaret Anne Cameron is a Canadian philosopher whose research interests include metaphysics and the history of philosophy, including the influence of Aristotelian logic in medieval scholarship,[1] the work of 12th-century scholar Peter Abelard, and the philosophical study of the true crime genre.[2] She is a professor of philosophy and head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia.[3]

Education and career

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Cameron is originally from Canada, and was educated in the Toronto public school system.[1] She was a student of gender studies, English literature, and philosophy at the University of Toronto. After a research fellowship at the University of Cambridge in England and an assistant professorship at Hunter College in New York City,[2] she returned to Canada in 2008 to take up a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian tradition at the University of Victoria. The chair was renewed in 2014;[4][5] at the University of Victoria, she also served as associate dean for research.[2] In 2017 she became founding co-editor-in-chief of Metaphysics, the journal of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative.[6]

In 2019, she moved to the University of Melbourne with her partner, Klaus Jahn, who held a teaching position at the University of Victoria.[7] She became the first woman to hold a professorship in philosophy at the University of Melbourne.[2]

Books

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Cameron's books include:

  • Methods and Methodologies: Aristotelian Logic East and West, 500-1500 (edited with John Marenbon, Investigating Medieval Philosophy, Vol. 2, Brill, 2011)
  • Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language (edited with Robert J. Stainton, Oxford University Press, 2015)[8]
  • Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language: Primary source texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill (edited with Benjamin Hill and Robert J. Stainton, Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy, Springer, 2017)[9]
  • Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages (edited, The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 2, Routledge, 2018)[10]
  • Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (by Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, translated and edited with James O. Young, Brill, 2021, in two vols.)

References

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  1. ^ a b Pitts, Patty (14 February 2011), "Newest research chair wants to move Aristotle into the digital age", UVic News, University of Victoria, retrieved 2024-09-20
  2. ^ a b c d "Episode 4: Margaret Cameron and Russell Goulbourne", Dean's Forum, University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts, retrieved 2024-09-20
  3. ^ "Head of school", Our people, University of Melbourne School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, retrieved 2024-09-20
  4. ^ "Newest Research Chair Wants To Move Aristotle Into The Digital Age", UVic News, University of Victoria, 10 September 2009, retrieved 2024-09-20
  5. ^ Shore, Valerie (2 April 2014), "Three new Canada Research Chairs announced", UVic News, University of Victoria, retrieved 2024-09-20
  6. ^ "Editorial team", Metaphysics, Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative, retrieved 2024-09-20; for founding date and previous co-editor-in-chief status see Koslicki, Kathrin, Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2024-09-20
  7. ^ Farewell to Margaret Cameron and Klaus Jahn, University of Victoria Humanities, 26 April 2019, retrieved 2024-09-20
  8. ^ Reviews of Linguistic Content:
  9. ^ Review of Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language: Heidi Savage (2017), "Not just another philosophy of language book", Metascience, doi:10.1007/s11016-017-0220-z
  10. ^ Review of Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages: Jari Kaukua (2019), Nazariyat, doi:10.12658/nazariyat.5.1.d0061, [2] (in Turkish)