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Name
  
Peter Simons

Role
  
Philosopher


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Books
  
Philosophy and logic in Central E, Joint Ventures in Philosophy, Parts: A Study in Ontology

Education
  
University of Manchester

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Peter M. Simons, FBA (born 23 March 1950) is a retired professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.

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Biography

Simons studied at the University of Manchester, and has held teaching posts at the University of Bolton, 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 of two books and over 200 articles. He is currently working on a project supported by the British Academy to chart the metaphysics of quantity.

Awards

  • FBA: Fellow of the British Academy (elected July 2004)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (elected 2006)
  • Publications

  • Parts. A Study In Ontology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
  • Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski. Selected Essays, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992.
  • References

    Peter Simons (academic) Wikipedia