Adam Morton

{{Short description|Canadian philosopher (1945–2020)}} {{Infobox academic | name = Adam Morton | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = John Adam Garibian | other_names = John Adam Morton | birth_date = May 1945 | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|10|22|1945|4}} | death_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | nationality = | citizenship = {{hlist | British | Canadian}} | residence = | home_town = | spouse = | partner = | website = {{official URL}} | alma_mater = {{ubl | McGill University | Princeton University}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Philosophy | sub_discipline = {{hlist | Epistemology | philosophy of mathematics | philosophy of mind}} | workplaces = {{ubl | Princeton University | University of Ottawa | University of Bristol | University of Oklahoma | University of Alberta | University of British Columbia }} | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''Adam Morton''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (1945 – 2020) was a Canadian philosopher. Morton's work focused on how we understand one another's behaviour in everyday life, with an emphasis on the role mutual intelligibility plays in cooperative activity. He also wrote on ethics, decision-making, philosophy of language and epistemology. His later work concerned our vocabulary for evaluating and monitoring our thinking. Morton was Professor of Philosophy from 1980 to 2000 at the University of Bristol in the UK and finished his academic career at the University of British Columbia. He was president of the Aristotelian Society during 1998–1999<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/about/the-council/ |title=The Council|publisher=The Aristotelian Society |date= 5 October 2012|access-date=2012-11-18}}</ref> and in 2006 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=7747 |title=News & Events - University of Alberta |publisher=Expressnews.ualberta.ca |access-date=2012-11-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310215813/http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=7747 |archive-date=2007-03-10 }}</ref>

==Works== Morton authored ''Frames of Mind: Constraints on the Common Sense Conception of the Mental'' (1980), ''Disasters and Dilemmas: Strategies for Real-life Decision Making'' (1990), ''The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics'' (2002), ''On Evil'' (2005), ''Bounded Thinking: Intellectual Virtues for Limited Agents'' (2012), ''Emotion and Imagination'' (2013), and two textbooks, ''A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge'' (2002) and ''Philosophy in Practice'' (2003).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fernieroad.ca/a/PAPERS/papers.html#fullPubs|title=New papers grid}}</ref> Along with Stephen P. Stich, he co-edited ''Benacerraf and His Critics'' (1997).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Monk|first=Ray|date=March 14, 1997|title=It all adds up to a powerful figure|journal=Times Higher Education|publisher=TSL Education|issn=0049-3929|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=160358&sectioncode=39}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Official website}} * [https://www.questiaschool.com/read/103339006?title=15%3A%20Adam%20Morton Key Philosophers in Conversation: Adam Morton (1999)]

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