Donald C. Ainslie

Faculty

BSc, MA, PhD

Professor, Department of Philosophy

donald.ainslie@utoronto.ca

Campus: St. George

Donald Ainslie’s research includes early modern philosophy, David Hume, naturalism in ethics, and the foundation of bioethics.

• BSc (Mathematics), Queen’s University
• MA, University of Pittsburgh
• PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Bioethics, Early Modern Philosophy

• “Hume a Scottish Socrates?”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33(1). 2003.
• “AIDS and Sex: Is Warning a Moral Obligation?”, Health Care Analysis 10(1). 2002.
• “Bioethics And The Problem Of Pluralism”, Social Philosophy and Policy 19(2). 2002.
• “Hume’s reflections on the identity and simplicity of mind”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62(3). 2001.
• “Scepticism about persons in Book II of Hume’s Treatise”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 37(3). 1999.
• “The Problem of the National Self in Hume’s Theory of Justice”, Hume Studies 21(2). 1995.