Paul Russell (philosopher)

Paul Russell (born Glasgow, Scotland, 1955) is a professor in philosophy at Lund University, where he is Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project [LGRP]. Paul Russell is also a professor in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he has been teaching since 1987. His position at Lund is a half-time research position and has been made possible thanks to a major grant from the Swedish Research Council for "the international recruitment of leading researchers" (2014).

Paul Russell holds an undergraduate degree from Edinburgh University (1979) and a PhD from Cambridge University (1986). At Cambridge his thesis work was supervised by Professor Sir Bernard Williams. He held a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1984-1987.

Apart from the positions mentioned above he has also held a number of visiting appointments at various universities, including University of Virginia (1988); Stanford University (1989-1990), where he held a Mellon Fellowship; University of Pittsburgh (1996-1997); and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005), where he was Kenan Distinguished Visitor. More recently, he held a half-time position as Professor at Gothenburg University (2015-2017). In 2010 he was the Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

His principal research interests include problems of free will and moral responsibility and the history of early modern philosophy (particularly David Hume).

He is the author of Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (1995), The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (2008), and The Limits of Free Will: Selected Essays (2017), all published by Oxford University Press. His book The Riddle of Hume's Treatise won the book prize from the Journal of the History of Philosophy in 2008, a prize bestowed on "the best published book in the history of philosophy."[2][3] He has served on the editorial board of the journals Hume Studies and Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Along with his academic publications he has also published opinion pieces and reviews in a variety of venues including, The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, the Times Literary Supplement, and Aeon. Selections of his work have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Polish, Italian and Hungarian.

In recent years Paul Russell has commented on and discussed issues relating to free speech on the university campus [4] [5], including at the University of British Columbia.[6] [7] [8][9]


Further reading

  • Garrett, Don (January 2010). "A Review of Paul Russell, The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism and Irreligion". Philosophical Review. 119 (1): 108–12. doi:10.1215/00318108-2009-030.
  • Vitz, Rico (27 July 2008). "Paul Russell - The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  • Russell, Paul (11 June 1999). "The supremacy of God' does not belong in the Constitution'". The Globe and Mail via philarchive.org.


gollark: Proof of work is rather awful because it actively requires burning compute for no value, but all the alternatives are really bad too.
gollark: There are ways around this but they don't seem to have helped.
gollark: Cryptocurrencies are cool *technology*, but they also seem to not be very... good... as currency. Partly this is just network effects but partly high transaction fees due to things.
gollark: Well, I dislike them kind of, but I think I have well-reasoned-ish reasons.
gollark: I don't, since I don't think you mean anything which maps properly to reality.

References

  1. "Paul Russell". Christ Church, Oxford. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  2. Leiter, Brian (15 March 2010). "British Columbia's Paul Russell Wins JHP's Book Prize". Leiter Reports. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  3. "Past JHP Book Prize and Article Prize Winners". Journal of the History of Philosophy.
  4. "UBC shelves new freedom of expression statement". The Globe and Mail. Simona Chiose. 7 November 2017.
  5. "What's so scary about free speech on campus?". The Globe and Mail. Margaret Wente. 14 November 2017.
  6. "Top moral thinkers defend free speech in UBC clash". Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun. 9 September 2017.
  7. "Protecting Free Speech on Campus Easier Said Than Done: UBC Prof". The Epoch Times. Jared Gnam. 1 February 2018.
  8. "CAMPUS SPEECH AND THE INFLATION OF HARM". William Bruneau, Centre for Free Expression. 10 April 2018.
  9. "Student's anti-social justice memo prompts back-and-forth among UBC community". Jack Hauen and Alex Nguyen, Ubyssey. 19 August 2017.


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