Margaret Cameron (philosopher)

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

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

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

1. 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. "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:
   • Nathaniel Goldberg (2016), Philosophy in Review,
   • Nathaniel Bulthuis (2017), The Philosophical Review, JSTOR   27130957
   • Max Rabie (2017), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, doi:10.1080/00048402.2016.1217892
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, (in Turkish)