Peter Simons (academic)

Peter Simons
FBA
Simons in 2008
Born (1950-03-23) 23 March 1950 (age 76)
Education
Wolfe Mays
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Analytic philosophy
Main interests
Notable ideas
Truthmaker theory

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

Biography

Simons studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Manchester, having been supervised by Wolfe Mays. While at Manchester he co-founded the seminar for Austro-German philosophy. He 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.

He is married with two children.

Awards

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "E.J. Lowe Lecture 2022: Professor Peter Simons". Durham University. Retrieved 23 September 2022. 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". Who's Who 2023. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  3. ↑ Mulligan, Simons, Smith, Kevin, Peter, Barry (1984). "Truth-Makers". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 44 (3): 287–321. doi:10.2307/2107686. JSTOR 2107686. Retrieved 23 September 2022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  9. ↑ "Trinity Monday 2010 - Fellows and Scholars". Trinity College Dublin. 27 May 2011. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ↑ Doepke, Frederick (June 1991). "Review: Parts, A Study in Ontology". Noûs. 25 (3): 393–396. doi:10.2307/2215517. JSTOR 2215517. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  11. ↑ Falkenberg, Gabriel (1975). "Review: Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski". Erkenntnis. 41 (2): 275–279. doi:10.1007/BF01128833. JSTOR 20012583. S2CID 189876684. Retrieved 23 September 2022.