Adam Rawlings :: Department of Philosophy, York University

A d a m R a w l i n g s

Department of Philosophy

York University

Oddly enough, I'm not the one covered in fur.

Contact:

madswan@yorku.ca

S428 Ross Building

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

(416) 736-5113 (dept. office)

Office:

TBA for Winter 2010

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Adam Rawlings received his MA in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia in 2004 for work in metaethics critiquing Gilbert Harman’s moral relativism. He received his BA in Philosophy (Honours) from the University of British Columbia in 2001.

Currently, he is in the sixth year (ABD) of his PhD program at York University in Toronto, working on philosophy of action, focusing on reasons-explanations of action, including the nature of inferences to reasons-explanations and the sort of understanding conferred by these explanations, as well as related issues including reasons for action, motivation, and the distinction between the practical and the moral. (Click here to view his dissertation proposal.)

Rawlings specializes in the philosophy of action and metaethics, with interests in normative and applied ethics, philosophy and public policy (global justice, environmentalism), the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of law and the history of philosophy (materialism). He has taught a variety of philosophy courses at Trent University, the University of Western Ontario, and Ryerson University. Outside the academy, Rawlings has presented and worked on medicolegal reports for auto insurance, WSIB and other medicolegal purposes.

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