Margaret C. "Margie" Morrison (19 May 1954 – 9 January 2021) was a Canadian philosopher. She worked in the philosophy of science. She was elected to the Leopoldina in 2004, the Royal Society of Canada in 2015, the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences in 2016, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Education

• BA, Dalhousie University ^{[ citation needed]}
• MA, University of Western Ontario ^{[ citation needed]}
• PhD, University of Western Ontario ^[2]

Career

Morrison taught at Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. She was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1989 until her retirement in 2019. ^[2]

She also held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the Centre for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics. ^[2]

Publications

• Community and Coexistence: Kant’s Third Analogy of Experience, (Kant-Studien, 1998)
• Models as Mediators, Cambridge University Press (1999) (editor)
• Unifying Scientific Theories: Physical Concepts and Mathematical Structures, (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations (Oxford University Press, 2015) ^[4]

References

External links

• philpapers.org