{{short description|Canadian philosopher}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = Western philosophy | era = 20th‑ and 21st‑century philosophy | image = | name = Peter Loptson | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | school_tradition = | institutions = University of Guelph, University of Saskatchewan | main_interests = Metaphysics, human nature, history of philosophy | thesis_title = | thesis_url= | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors= | doctoral_students = | notable_ideas= | spouse= | education = BA (York University), MA & PhD (University of Pittsburgh) | alma_mater= | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = }}
'''Peter Loptson''' is a Canadian philosopher whose work spans metaphysics, human nature, and the history of philosophy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Butchvarov |first1=Panayot |title=Review of Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics |journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |date=2003 |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=497–500 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20140620 |issn=0031-8205}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Young |first1=Julian |title=Theories of Human NaturePeter Loptson Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1995, x + 262 pp., $24.95 paper. |journal=Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie |date=July 1996 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=620–623 |doi=10.1017/S0012217300008933 |language=en |issn=1759-0949}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=MacKenzie |first1=Patrick |title=Philosophy, History, and Myth: Essays and TalksPeter Loptson Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002, xi + 226 pp., $35.00 paper |journal=Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie |date=October 2005 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=824–826 |doi=10.1017/S001221730000024X |language=en |issn=1759-0949}}</ref> He is professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, having previously taught at the University of Saskatchewan. He served as co-editor of ''Hume Studies'' between 2005 and 2010 and as co-editor of ''Dialogue'' between 1996 and 2000.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Loptson |url=https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/peter-loptson|website=University of Guelph |access-date=31 October 2025}}</ref>
== Books == * ''Freedom, Nature, and World''. University of Ottawa Press, 2007. * ''Philosophy, History, and Myth''. University Press of America, 2002. * ''Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics''. University of Toronto Press, 2001. 2nd edition (paperback) University of Ottawa Press, 2010. * ''Theories of Human Nature''. Broadview Press, 1995. 2nd edition 2001. 3rd edition 2006.
===edited=== * G. W. Leibniz, ''Discourse on Metaphysics and Monadology''. Broadview Press, forthcoming, 2011. * ''Readings on Human Nature''. Broadview Press, 1998. * Anne Conway, ''The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy''. Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. 2nd edition. Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998.
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==External links== * {{cite web |title=Peter Loptson |url=https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/peter-loptson |website=University of Guelph |access-date=31 October 2025}} {{authority control}}
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