Dr. Eric Dayton

Professor and and Department Head
Ph.D. University of Western Ontario

(306) 966-6386
624 Arts

eric.dayton@usask.ca | Personal Web Site

Recent Courses
PHIL 140 Critical Thinking
PHIL 233 Ethical Theory
PHIL 271 Aesthetics
PHIL 281 Theory of Knowledge


Advanced seminar topics have included:
Metaethics; Topics Analytic Philosophy; Kant; Naturalized epistemology; Metaphysics; Freedom, Action and Norms; C.I. Lewis; Pragmatism; Kant, Wittgenstein and Modernity

Research
Epistemology, moral theory, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, C.I. Lewis

Selected Publications
"Could it Be Worth Thinking about Descartes on Whether Animals Have Beliefs?" History of Philosophy Quarterly. Vol 21, No 1 2004

“On Aesthetic Value and the Ethical,”The Structurist, No 41/42, Nov. 2002

"C.I. Lewis," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002 (26 pp.)

"C. I. Lewis and the Given," Transaction of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy. Spring 1995, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, 254-285.