Margaret C. "Margie" Morrison (19 May 19549 January 2021) was a Canadian philosopher. She worked in the philosophy of science. She was elected to the

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in 2004, the

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in 2015, the

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in 2016, and received a

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in 2017.

Education

*BA,

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the fou ...

*MA, University of Western Ontario *PhD, University of Western Ontario

Career

Morrison taught at

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and the University of Minnesota. She was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1989 until her retirement in 2019. She also held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the Centre for Mathematical Philosophy at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, and the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics.

Publications

*''Community and Coexistence: Kant’s Third Analogy of Experience'', (Kant-Studien, 1998) *''Models and Mediators'', Cambridge University Press (1999) (editor) *''Unifying Scientific Theories: Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures'', (Cambridge University Press, 2000) *''Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations'' (Oxford University Press, 2015)

References

External links

philpapers.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Margaret Canadian women philosophers 1954 births 2021 deaths Dalhousie University alumni University of Western Ontario alumni Academic staff of the University of Toronto Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 20th-century Canadian philosophers 20th-century Canadian women writers