Cheryl Misak

• University of Lethbridge (BA)
• Columbia University (MA)
• University of Oxford (PhD)

Cheryl Misak
Provost of the University of Toronto
In office 2009–2013
Scientific career
Fields	Pragmatism analytic philosophy bioethics
Institutions	University of Toronto

Cheryl J. Misak FRSC (born July 16, 1961) ^[1] is a Canadian philosopher who works in pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics. ^[2] She is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, ^[3] and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in intellectual and cultural history. ^[4]

From 2003 to 2005, Misak served as vice-principal academic and dean of the University of Toronto Mississauga and as acting vice-president and principal of the campus from 2006 to 2007. ^[5] She was provost of the University of Toronto from 2009 to 2013. She was also president of the Charles S. Peirce Society in 2011. ^[6] In December 2020, Misak became the interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. ^[7]

Misak was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. ^[8] She received her BA from the University of Lethbridge, her MA from Columbia University, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford. ^[3]

Publications

Authored Books

• Misak, Cheryl J. (2020). Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-875535-7. OCLC   1102642049. ^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Misak, Cheryl J. (October 18, 2016). Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-102004-9. OCLC   957738331. ^{[12] [13] [14]}
• Misak, Cheryl J. (2013). The American Pragmatists. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-165138-0. OCLC   828143682. ^[15]
• Misak, Cheryl J. (2000). Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation. Routledge. ISBN   978-0-203-16228-6. OCLC   179161004.
• Misak, Cheryl J. (1995) Verificationism: Its History and Prospects (Philosophical Issues in Science). Routledge. ISBN   0-415-12597-9.
• Misak, Cheryl J. (2004). Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-151963-5. OCLC   370946282.

Edited Books

• Misak, Cheryl; Price, Huw, eds. (2017). The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century. The British Academy
• Misak, Cheryl, ed. (2008). The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
• Misak, Cheryl, ed. (2007). New Pragmatists. Oxford University Press.
• Misak, Cheryl, ed. (July 12, 2004). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/ccol0521570069. ISBN   978-0-521-57006-0.

Selected Papers

• Misak, Cheryl (August 2005). "ICU Psychosis and Patient Autonomy: Some Thoughts from the Inside". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy . 30 (4): 411–430. doi:10.1080/03605310591008603. ISSN   0360-5310. PMID   16029990.

References

1. The Canadian Who's Who. Toronto : University of Toronto Press. 2004. p. 918. ISBN   978-0-8020-4913-1.
2. "Pragmatic philosophers: let's just focus on 'the best we can do'". CBC Radio. April 7, 2020. Archived from the original on August 18, 2020.
3. "Cheryl Misak". University of Toronto. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020.
4. "Cheryl Misak". Universities Canada. Archived from the original on August 9, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
5. Percy, John; Abbas, Sabeen (2007). Celebrating 40 Years of History at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Toronto: University of Toronto Mississauga.
6. Misak, Cheryl (2011). "2011 Presidential Address: American Pragmatism and Indispensability Arguments". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 47 (3): 261. doi:10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.47.3.261. S2CID   170361561.
7. "Welcoming Interim Director Cheryl Misak". Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. December 17, 2020. Archived from the original on December 25, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
8. Kenney, Trevor (January 14, 2009). "Athletics helped shape Misak's future". University of Lethbridge. Archived from the original on October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
9. Gottlieb, Anthony (April 27, 2020). "The Man Who Thought Too Fast". The New Yorker . Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
10. Brean, Joseph (June 6, 2020). "The Philosopher Kings: How friendship with young prodigy changed one of the most brilliant minds of modern thinking". National Post . Archived from the original on October 11, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
11. Davenport-Hines, Richard (March 27, 2020). "'Frank Ramsey' Review: The Most Genial Genius". The Wall Street Journal . ISSN   0099-9660. Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
12. de Waal, Cornelis (2019). "Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein by Cheryl Misak". Journal of the History of Philosophy . 57 (3): 565–566. doi:10.1353/hph.2019.0047. ISSN   1538-4586. S2CID   201765422.
13. Preston, John (October 2017). "Review of Cambridge Pragmatism". Philosophical Investigations . 40 (4): 443–448. doi:10.1111/phin.12171.
14. Capps, John (March 16, 2017). "Cheryl Misak, Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein". Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. 5 (3). doi: 10.15173/jhap.v5i3.3156 . ISSN   2159-0303. Archived from the original on June 8, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
15. Margolis, Joseph (December 24, 2013). "Some Remarks on Cheryl Misak's The American Pragmatists". European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. 5 (2). doi: 10.4000/ejpap.548 . ISSN   2036-4091.

External links

• Official website
• Cheryl Misak publications indexed by Google Scholar