Adam Morton

Adam Morton FRSC (1945 – 2020) was a Canadian philosopher. Morton's work focused on how we understand one another's behaviour in everyday life, with an emphasis on the role mutual intelligibility plays in cooperative activity. He also wrote on ethics, decision-making, philosophy of language and epistemology. His later work concerned our vocabulary for evaluating and monitoring our thinking. Morton was Professor of Philosophy from 1980 to 2000 at the University of Bristol in the UK and finished his academic career at the University of British Columbia. He was president of the Aristotelian Society during 1998–1999[1] and in 2006 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[2]

Adam Morton

FRSC
Born
John Adam Garibian

April 1945 (age 75)
London, England
Died(2020-10-22)October 22, 2020
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Other namesJohn Adam Morton
Citizenship
  • British
  • Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Websitefernieroad.ca/a

Works

Morton authored Frames of Mind: Constraints on the Common Sense Conception of the Mental (1980), Disasters and Dilemmas: Strategies for Real-life Decision Making (1990), The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics (2002), On Evil (2005), Bounded Thinking: Intellectual Virtues for Limited Agents (2012), Emotion and Imagination (2013), and two textbooks, A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge (2002) and Philosophy in Practice (2003).[3] Along with Stephen P. Stich, he co-edited Benacerraf and His Critics (1997).[4]

References
  1. "The Council". The Aristotelian Society. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  2. "News & Events - University of Alberta". Expressnews.ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  4. Monk, Ray (March 14, 1997). "It all adds up to a powerful figure". Times Higher Education. TSL Education. ISSN 0049-3929.
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
John Cottingham		 President of the Aristotelian Society
1998–1999		 Succeeded by
David Wiggins


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