Michael Shute

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Michael Shute
Born(1951-09-21)21 September 1951
DiedJanuary 3, 2020(2020-01-03) (aged 68)
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis The Origins of Lonergan's Notions of the Dialectic of History (1991)
Doctoral advisor Robert M. Doran
Influences Bernard Lonergan
Institutions Memorial University of Newfoundland

Michael R. Shute (21 September 1951 - 3 January 2020 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian scholar and Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was known for his research on the works of Bernard Lonergan [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] and moral decision-making. [6] Shute was a co-editor of Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis. [7]

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Shute received a diagnosis of ALS. As a result, he retired from teaching in September 2019, and died on January 3, 2020. [8]

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References

  1. Halloran, Tom (October 2011). "Book Review: Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics; Lonergan's Early Economic Research". Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies . 24 (3): 349–351. doi:10.1177/1030570x1102400312. ISSN   1030-570X. S2CID   149356116.
  2. "Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics - ProQuest". The Review of Metaphysics . 65 (3): 681–683. March 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  3. Friel, Christopher (8 August 2013). "Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics. By Michael Shute. Pp. 867, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2010, £54.45". The Heythrop Journal . 54 (5): 906–907. doi:10.1111/heyj.12022_3. ISSN   0018-1196.
  4. Liddy, Richard M. (March 1996). "The Origins of Lonergan's Notion of the Dialectic of History Michael Shute Baltimore: University Press of America, 1993. 232 p". Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 25 (1): 131–132. doi:10.1177/000842989602500126. ISSN   0008-4298. S2CID   151857802.
  5. Loptson, Peter (Summer 1996). "The Origins of Lonergan's Notion of the Dialectic of HistoryMichael Shute Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993, xxii + 206 pp". Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review . 35 (3): 633–636. doi:10.1017/S0012217300008982. ISSN   1759-0949. S2CID   170595219.
  6. Henman, Robert (September 2004). "[Book Review] Michael Shute and William Zanardi, Improving Moral Decision-Making (Halifax: Axial Press, 2003)". HEC Forum. 16 (3): 214–216. doi:10.1023/B:HECF.0000047625.19297.ae. S2CID   72648646.
  7. "Michael Shute CV" (PDF). Archived from the original on 12 November 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. "Michael Shute at Memorial University of Newfoundland". Archived from the original on 8 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)