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Roger Nash BA, MA, PhD (Exon) is a Canadian philosopher and poet. He was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England on 3 November 1942. He grew up in England, Egypt, Cyprus, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has a B.A. from the University of Wales (1965), an M.A. from McMaster University (1966) and a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter (1974).

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Roger Nash is a professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He has served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. programme in "Interpretation and Value" at Laurentian University, and was a founding member of the Graduate Diploma in Science Communication offered by Laurentian University and Science North. His main philosophical interests are: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, Wittgenstein, and Environmental Ethics.

He served as the first Poet Laureate of the City of Greater Sudbury from 2010 to 2011, appointed by the Mayor and Council . He was also president of the League of Canadian Poets from 1998 to 2000. During his tenure as president, he worked with Senator Jerry Grafstein to help create the position of Canadian Poet Laureate.

He was cantor at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Sudbury where he lived from 1970 through 2024. He now lives in Burnaby, British Columbia and remains active in community organizing, writing and promoting the Arts. He is married to Bronwen Christine and has two children, Piers Nash (born 1969) and Caedmon Nash (born 1970).

Awards

Bibliography

Books

Chapters

"Strategies: how to get written by a poem." In Poets in the classroom. Ed. by Betsy Struthers and Sarah Klassen. Markham, ON: Pembroke Publishers Limited, 81–87. 1995.

Articles

Published Conference Papers

"Collaboration in curriculum committees and the culture of the university: a clash of perspectives?" In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 37. 1995.

Short stories

Poems

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