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William Seager

b. 1952

Philosopher

Philosopher University teacher University of Toronto
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Born 1952. William Seager is a Canadian philosopher, university teacher, university of Toronto and scarborough.

William Edward Seager (born April 11, 1952 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian philosopher. Now retired, he spent his career as a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His academic specialties lie in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science.

He received his B.A. (1973) and his M.A. (1976) from the University of Alberta. Seager received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Ronald de Sousa, with a thesis on "Materialism and the Foundations of Representation."

He was Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy between 2003 and 2013.

In 2023, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Publications

Books The Leibniz Lexicon: A Dual Concordance to Leibniz's Philosophische Schriften. Hildesheim: Olms, 1988. (With R. McRae, R. Finster, G. Hunter, M. Miles.) Metaphysics of Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1991. Theories of Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1999. Natural Fabrications: Science, Emergence, and Consciousness. Berlin: Springer Frontier Collection, 2012. Theories of Consciousness 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 2016. The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (editor) London: Routledge, 2019.

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University of Alberta, University of Toronto
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University of Toronto
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William Edward Seager

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Who is William Seager?

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When was William Seager born?

William Seager was born on 11 April 1952 in Edmonton.

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William Seager is a philosopher, university teacher, university of Toronto and scarborough.

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William Seager is Canadian.

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