Peter Alward Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
Peter Alward
School Tradition:	Analytic
Institutions:	University of Saskatchewan
Main Interests:	Philosophy of fiction
Thesis Title:	Believed World Semantics
Thesis Url:	https://philpapers.org/rec/ALWBWS
Thesis Year:	1998
Doctoral Advisor:	William Lycan, Keith Simmons
Education:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD)
Website:	https://peteralward.wordpress.com/

Peter Wallace Brannen Alward (born 1964) is a Canadian philosopher. He is a Professor in Philosophy and the Department Head in Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. He is known for his works on philosophy of fiction, philosophy of art and environmental philosophy.^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] In 2016 Alward was awarded Tenured Professor Essay Prize by The Canadian Philosophical Association.^[5]

Books

Philosophical Problems: an introductory text in philosophy, Broadview, 2017.
Empty Revelations: an essay on talk about, and attitudes toward, fiction, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

MacKinnon . John E. . Empty Revelations: An Essay on Talk about, and Attitudes toward, Fiction by Peter Alward (review) . . 23 October 2014 . 83 . 2 . 578–580 . en . 1712-5278.
Goodman . Jeffrey . Alward, Peter. Empty Revelations: An Essay on Talk about, and Attitudes toward, Fiction. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, x + 206 pp., $95.00 cloth. . . November 2013 . 71 . 4 . 392–394 . 10.1111/jaac.12037_6 . en . 0021-8529. free .
Nelson . Christine . Skepticism on Scruton: the Possibility of Photography as Representation . Magnificat: A Journal of Undergraduate Nonfiction . April 2013 . 16 October 2018.
BENATAR . DAVID . Why the Naïve Argument against Moral Vegetarianism Really is Naïve . . 2001 . 10 . 1 . 103–112 . 10.3197/096327101129340769 . 30301788 .
Web site: Canadian Philosophical Association Faculty Essay Prize Winners . Canadian Philosophical Association . 16 October 2018.