- Adam Morton
Adam Morton, F.R.S.C. (born 1945) is a Canadian
philosopher and author.Morton's work has 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 has also written on ethics, decision-making, philosophy of language and epistemology. His more recent work concerns 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 is now at theUniversity of Alberta . He is author of "Frames of mind: constraints on the common sense conception of the mental" (1980), "Disasters and dilemmas" (1990), "The importance of being understood: folk psychology as ethics" (2002), "On Evil" (2005), and two textbooks, "A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge" (2002) and "Philosophy in Practice" (2003).He is a past president of the
Aristotelian Society and a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada .ources
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