John W. Burbidge

John William Burbidge (February 29, 1936 - November 2, 2023) was a Canadian professor of philosophy. He was named to the Royal Society of Canada in 1998.

Life and works John was born in Hoiryung, Korea, to missionary parents. He grew up in Scotland and Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. He initially studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, and took his M.A. at Yale University. After returning to Canada, he married Barbara Perkins, whom he met during his graduate years. He taught for about a year at Victoria College, and then continued his studies in theology in Canada and Germany. He served as a United Church minister until 1968, then returned to the University of Toronto to pursue a Ph.D. under Emil Fackenheim, with the dissertation Contingent truths of historical fact and eternal truths of reason: the challenge of Lessing's Ditch and the responses of Hegel and Schelling, which he completed in 1970, while also writing for and editing journals at Ryerson Press.

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