Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes ( ; born 1940) is a Swiss-born Canadian philosopher and academic. He is an

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at the Department of Philosophy of the

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, which he joined in 1966.

Biography

De Sousa possesses both UK and Canadian citizenship. Educated in Switzerland and England, he took his B.A. at New College,

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in 1962, and his Ph.D. at

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in 1966. His thesis ''Categories, Translation, and Linguistic Theory'' was supervised by

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. He is best known for his work in philosophy of emotions, and has also made contributions to

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and

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. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2005.RSC Fellows search
Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

Books

* ''The Rationality of Emotion'' (1987) (German translation 1997; Chinese translation 2006) * ''Évolution et Rationalité'' (2004) *
Why think? Evolution and the Rational Mind
(2007) * ''Emotional Truth'' (2011) * ''Love: A Very Short Introduction'' (2015)

References

1940 births Living people Canadian philosophers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada University of Toronto faculty Alumni of New College, Oxford Princeton University alumni British expatriates in Switzerland British emigrants to Canada British expatriates in the United States Presidents of the Canadian Philosophical Association {{Canada-academic-bio-stub