Graeme Nicholson (30 September 1936 — 21 February 2021) was a Canadian philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto known for his research on ontology, hermeneutics, and anarchism.Nicholson at the University of TorontoJohn Tietz (1995). Review of Graeme Nicholson 'Illustrations of Being: Drawing upon Heidegger and upon Metaphysics' Dialogue, 34, pp 171-173. doi:10.1017/S0012217300049404.
Life and works He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto with a thesis on Heidegger directed by Emil Fackenheim.Minerva's Aviary: Philosophy at Toronto (1843-2003), John G. Slater, University of Toronto Press, pp 393-394. Nicholson died on February 21, 2021, at the age of 84.
Selected publications Justifying Our Existence: An Essay in Applied Phenomenology (New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics), 2009 Plato's Phaedrus: The Philosophy of Love (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy), 1999 Illustrations of Being: Drawing upon Heidegger and upon Metaphysics (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences), Humanity Books, 1992 Seeing and Reading (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences), Palgrave Macmillan, 1984 Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry and History, 1992 Heidegger’s Being and Time: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics Series), 2005
See also Philosophy in Canada
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