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John P. Wright, Ph.D.


Education:

Ph.D.: York University
M.A.: University of Toronto
B.A. :University of Toronto

University Teaching Positions:

2005-2007: Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

1998-      :  Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University

1997-98: Visiting Professor, Philosophy, Central Michigan University

1990-97:  Full Professor, Philosophy, University of Windsor

1987-90:  Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Windsor

1983-87:  Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Windsor

1970-83:  With time off for research positions I was Assistant Professor at the University  of Saskatchewan, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University.

Research Positions and Awards:

2004: President's Award for Outstanding Research, Central Michigan University

2004 Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant

2002-2003 University Research Professor, Central Michigan University

2000 Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar: "Thomas Reid on Perception, Knowledge and Action", Brown University, July 17-August 18, 2000.

1997-1998 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-July 1, 1997, August, 1998 (Non-stipendiary)

1994: (Spring) Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Bologna, Italy (CNR Italian Government grant)

1992-93:Hannah Visiting Professor, Department of History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario

1991:(Winter) Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas

1986-87:Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,New Jersey

1978-80:Hannah Post-Doctoral Fellowship in History of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario)

1976-78: Canada Council Killam Post Doctoral Fellowship (held at the University of Paris-Sorbonne & the University of Oxford)