Paul Russell
Professor of Philosophy
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Address for Correspondence:
Email: paul.russell@ubc.ca______________________
Current Position:
Emeritus Professor, University of British Columbia Education:
Graduate: Cambridge University PhD (1987) "Moral Sentiment and the Rationale of Responsibility"/ Supervisor: Bernard Williams
Undergraduate: Edinburgh University M.A (Honours) - 1st class (1979)
Date & Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland/ 7 September, 1955
Areas of Specialization:Ethics and Action Theory Early Modern Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Academic Employment:
2022 - Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
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2018 – 2025 Professor, Lund University & Director of the Lund |Gothenburg Responsibility Project (half-time appointment)1987- 2022 Professor, University of British Columbia [halftime 2015-2022].2015-2017 – Professor, University of Gothenburg (half-time appointment)2005 (Jan-June) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Visiting Professor (Kenan Distinguished Visitor) 1996 - 1997 University of Pittsburgh - Visiting Associate Professor 1989 - 1990 Stanford University - Mellon Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor 1988 (Jan-June) University of Virginia - Visiting Assistant Professor 1984-1985 Invited Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge1984-1986 Director of Studies in Philosophy (Cambridge) at Sidney Sussex College (1984-86), Robinson College (1985), Trinity Hall (1984-1985) 1984 - 1987 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge - Junior Research Fellow 1983 - 1984 University of Notre Dame - Adjunct Lecturer (London Program)
Awards and Distinctions:
- 2023 Beaufort Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge University: Lent term 2023
- 2014 Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Grants for International Recruitment of Leading Researchers.
- 2014 Killam Faculty Research Prize (UBC)
- 2012-2015 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant
- 2010 Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow in the Humanities at Christ Church, Oxford University
- 2010 Awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy prize for the best published book in the history of philosophy in 2008 [The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise].
- 2007 Killam Teaching Prize (UBC)
- 2005 Kenan Distinguished Visting Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 2000 Freedom and Moral Sentiment was shortlisted for the American Philosophical Association Book Prize.
- 1991 and 1996 Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
- 1989 - 1990 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
- 1984 - 1986 Research Fellowship, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- 1980 - 1983 Scottish Education Department Major Scottish Studentship
Undergraduate Awards[Most distinguished graduate in philosophy at Edinburgh University.]
Teaching, Supervision and Professional Activities
Courses Taught:
* Lund University 2021 - Williams and Ethics (Graduate Seminar)- Aspects of Naturalism (Graduate Seminar)
* University of British Columbia 1987 - 2020 - Ethics - Social & Political Philosophy - Philosophy of Religion- Philosophy of Law- Hume's Treatise (Graduate Seminar) - Introduction to Philosophy- Contemporary Issues in Free Will (Graduate Seminar)- Moral Luck and Justice (Graduate Seminar)- Free Will and Moral Responsibility- Philosophy of History- Spinoza's Ethics (Graduate Seminar) - Contemporary Moral Theory (Graduate Seminar)- Philosophy of Samuel Clarke- British Moralists 1650-1740 (Graduate Seminar)- Hume's Philosophy of Religion- Moral Theory and Practical Reason (Graduate Seminar)- Metaphysics and Human Existence (Graduate Seminar)- Hobbes’s Leviathan (Graduate Seminar)- Virtue Ethics- Philosophy of Bernard Williams (Graduate Seminar)- Early Modern Philosophy - 18th Century- Nietzsche, Williams and Genealogy (Graduate Seminar)- The Radical Enlightenment and the Critique of Religion
* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2005
- Early Modern Philosophy - British Empiricism (Graduate Seminar)
* University of Pittsburgh 1996-1997
- Early Modern Philosophy- British Empiricism - Free Will (Contemporary Problems)- Hume's Moral Philosophy (Graduate Seminar)
* Stanford University 1989 - 1990
- Political Philosophy - Hume's Treatise: Books. II and III
* University of Virginia 1988
- Political Philosophy - Hume and Free Will (Graduate Seminar)
* Cambridge University 1984-85
- Free Will (faculty lectures)- Hume's Treatise [Book.I] (faculty lectures)
* University of Notre Dame [London Programme] 1983-84
- British Moral & Political Philosophy
Graduate Supervision:
Current PhDS
Robert Pál, 2020 - [Lund] (committee member)Sarah Koeglsperger, 2023- [Fribourg] (second supervisor)
Previous PhD Supervision
- Nick Sleigh, 1991-1994 [UBC] (committee member) - Diane Whiteley, 1992-1998 [UBC] (supervisor) - Marilyn Kane, 1996-2003 [UBC] (committee member) - Johnna Fisher, 1999-2001 [UBC] (committee member) - Kari Coleman, 1999- 2002 [UBC] (supervisor) - James Kelleher, 2005-2010 [UBC] (supervisor; committee member) - Joseph Topornycky 2005-2012 [UBC] (supervisor) - Oisin Deery 2007-2013 [UBC] (supervisor) - Tian Jie 2005 – 2013 [UBC] (supervisor) - James Hellewell 2006 – 2014 [UBC] (supervisor) - Irwin Chan 2012 - 2019 [UBC] (supervisor/ committee member) - Anton Emilsson, 2019-2024 [Lund] (co-supervisor)- Shervin MirzaeiGhazi, 2022- 2024 [Lund] (principal supervisor)
External Supervision:
- Filippos Stamatiou, [University of Copenhagen] (committee member) 2019- 2022- Daniel Telech, University of Chicago (committee member) 2016-2018- Anna Rez - Visiting Graduate; Central European University (Budapest) 2012
External examiner, PhD:
- Andras Szigeti; Central European University (Budapest) 2007- Benjamin Matheson; Manchester University, 2014- Damir Cicic; Central European University (Budapest) 2016- Audun Bengtson, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, 2020- Jo Bervoets, University of Antwerp, 2022
M.A. Supervision
- Jon Kalmansson, 1992-1994 [UBC] (supervisor)- Robert Gunnarsson, 1994-96 [UBC] (supervisor)- Andrew Horner, 1997 [UBC] (second reader)- Peter Rabbe, 1997 [UBC] (second reader)- Adam Bradley, 1998 (second reader)- Andrea Scotland, 1999-2001 [UBC] (supervisor)- Mark Campbell 2001 [UBC] (second reader)- Bert Terzian, 1999-2003 [UBC] (supervisor)- Katharine Browne 2003-2005 [UBC] (supervisor)
Postdoctoral Supervision:
- Anders Kraal (Uppsala University) – 2011-2013
Department Administration (Philosophy/UBC):
Graduate Advisor; Majors Advisor; Honours Advisor; Colloquium Organizer; Merit Committee; Appointments Committees (Junior & Senior); Head Search Committee, Spring Colloquium Organizer, Awards Committee, Tenure and Promotion; etc.
University Service (Recent):
- Humanities subcommittee, Faculty of Graduate Studies; – SSHRC Awards; - Curriculum Committee, Arts (2012-2013)
Professional Service: - Editorial Board Journal of the History of Philosophy 2013 -2019 - Editorial Board: Hume Studies 2005-2010
Academic Referee:
Publishers: Broadview, Blackwell; Cambridge University Press; Edinburgh University Press; MIT Press; Oxford University Press (UK and USA); Palgrave Macmillan; Polity; Routledge
Journals:
American Political Science Review; Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Dialogue; Enlightenment and Dissent; Ethics; History of Philosophy Quarterly; Hume Studies; Inquiry; Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy; Journal of Ethics; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Mind; Modern Intellectual History; Philosophers' Imprint; Philosophical Studies; Philosophical Explorations, Philosophical Quarterly; Political Theory; Polity; South African Journal of Philosophy
Appointments, Tenure & Promotion:
University of Toronto; Washington State University; University of Portland; University of Virginia; University of Houston; Tulane University; University of California at Riverside ; Trinity College, Cambridge; Oxford Brookes University
Conferences, Grant Agencies etc.:
British Society for Ethics; Canadian Philosophical Association; Hume Society; NOWAR; Leverhulme Trust, SSHRC (Canada); etc.
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