Prof. Marcello Guarini

Professor Guarini has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.  He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and holds a Junior Research Leadership Chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.  His research is focused on nature of analogical reasoningand on issues at the intersection of epistemology and the philosophy of mind.  He is the first recipient of the annual AILACT essay prize, and has been awarded grants by SSHRC and SHARCNet. See research for a list of papers and presentations.

Professor Guarini is a member of the Canadian Philosophical Association, the American Philosophical Association, the PSA, the IACAP, the AAAI, the CSS, and the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric.  Dr. Guarini is a co-chair for the Moral Cognition and Theory of Mind Symposium at the 2012 AISB/IACAP Joint World Congress in honour of Alan Turing.

During 2002-2003, Dr. Guarini received a UWSA nomination for Teacher of the Year, and in 2005 he was selected by TVO as one of Ontario's top 30 lecturers.  See below for courses he will be teaching during 2008-2009.  Have a look at the following links to check outsome of his  past courses:Introduction to Western Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics,Law, Punishment, and Morality, Theory of Knowledge, Kant,  Mind, Action, & Personal Identity, Mind Design and Android Epistemology, (Grad) Mind or Knowledge (2008) & (2010), (Grad) Philosophy of Mind, (Grad) Epistemology, (Grad) Special Topics: Philosophy and Techniques of Computational Neural Modeling.

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