Peter Simons (academic)

Short description: British philosopher

Peter Simons

Simons in 2008

Born|  (1950-03-23) 23 March 1950 (age 76)
Era| Contemporary philosophy
Region| Western philosophy
School| Analytic philosophy
Doctoral advisor| Wolfe Mays

Main interests

| Ontology

Notable ideas

| Truthmaker theory

Influences

* Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano

Peter Murray Simons, FBA (born 23 March 1950) is a British retired philosopher and academic. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin;[1] he is now professor emeritus.[2] He is known for his work with Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith on metaphysics and the history of Austrian philosophy.[3] Since 2018 he is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.[4]

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Awards
* 3 Publications
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Biography

Simons studied at the University of Manchester, and has held teaching posts at the University of Bolton, from which he holds an honorary doctorate, the University of Salzburg, where he is Honorary Professor of Philosophy, and the University of Leeds. He has been President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy and is current director of the Franz Brentano Foundation.

His research interests include metaphysics and ontology, the history of logic, the history of Central European Philosophy, particularly in Austria and Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the application of metaphysics to engineering and other non-philosophical disciplines. He is the author or co-author of five books and over 290 articles.

## Awards

* FBA: Fellow of the British Academy (elected July 2004)[5]
* Member of Academia Europaea (elected 2006)[6]
* Member of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 2013)
* Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (elected 2018)

## Publications

* Parts. A Study In Ontology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.[7]
* Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski. Selected Essays, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992.[8]

## References

1. ↑ "E.J. Lowe Lecture 2022: Professor Peter Simons". https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/philosophy/about-us/events/ej-lowe-lecture-2022-professor-peter-simons/. "Peter Simons is former Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin"
2. ↑ "Simons, Prof. Peter Murray, (born 23 March 1950), Professor of Moral Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, 2009–16, now Emeritus" (in en). Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U4000728.
3. ↑ Mulligan, Simons, Smith, Kevin, Peter, Barry (1984). "Truth-Makers". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (3): 287–321. doi:10.2307/2107686. https://philpapers.org/rec/MULT. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
4. ↑ "Professors". 2020. https://www.usi.ch/en/education/master/philosophy/professors.
5. ↑ "Professor Peter Simons FBA" (in en). https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/peter-simons-FBA/.
6. ↑ "Peter Simons: CURRICULUM VITAE". Academia Europaea. 18 October 2009. https://www.ae-info.org/attach/User/Simons_Peter/CV/CV_Simons.pdf.
7. ↑ Doepke, Frederick (June 1991). "Review: Parts, A Study in Ontology". Noûs 25 (3): 393–396. doi:10.2307/2215517. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2215517. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
8. ↑ Falkenberg, Gabriel (1975). "Review: Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski". Erkenntnis 41 (2): 275–279. doi:10.1007/BF01128833. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20012583. Retrieved 23 September 2022.

## External links

* Website of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College
* Personal webpage
* Website of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy

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