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Shannon Dea is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Philosophy at
the
University
of
Western Ontario
. Her
dissertation, Peirce and
Spinoza’s Surprising Pragmaticism, explores the largely
unnoticed connections between 19th-20th
century American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and 17th
century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
Shannon’s study draws out unremarked
similarities between Spinoza’s and Peirce’s respective
monisms, and the and the consequences of these for the two men’s
epistemologies and ethics.
Shannon has a B.A. (Joint Honours) in Philosophy and
Russian from the
University
of
Waterloo, and an M.A. from Queen’s. |
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Shannon has twenty conference talks and a number of
publications to her credit, including articles in The
Journal of Scottish Philosophy and Transactions
of the Charles S. Peirce Society.
A SSHRC doctoral fellow, she is also the 2005 winner of
the Charles S. Peirce essay prize, and a two-time winner of
the Richard Hadden Book Prize for the best graduate student
paper presented to the Canadian Society for the History and
Philosophy of Science. She
is a dedicated and popular instructor, and a two-time
recipient of Western’s Teaching Honour Roll Award of
Excellence.
Shannon
combines her love of research and teaching
with a deep interest in graduate education.
She has served on a number of university and
departmental bodies, including as President Western’s
Philosophy Graduate Student Association, and, more recently,
as President of Western’s Society of Graduate Students.
She has also volunteered extensively in the broader
community, as a member of the Huron Heights French Immersion
Public School Council, and as a front-line volunteer with
agencies serving street-involved youth, women inmates, and
ex-offenders. She
is also a busy mom, with a 9-year-old daughter, Molly.
Molly and Shannon’s long-time partner, Mark, are
important inspirations and supports for
Shannon
’s work.
In September, Shannon will take up a tenure-track position in
the Department of Philosophy at the
University
of
Waterloo
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