Adam Morton, Date of Birth

Adam Morton

Canadian philosopher

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1945

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Adam Morton, (born John Garibian 1945) is a Canadian philosopher and author.
Morton's work has focused on how we understand one another's behaviour in everyday life, with an emphasis on the role mutual intelligibility plays in cooperative activity.
He has also written on ethics, decision-making, philosophy of language and epistemology.
His more recent work concerns our vocabulary for evaluating and monitoring our thinking.
Morton was Professor of Philosophy from 1980 to 2000 at the University of Bristol in the UK, and is now at the University of British Columbia.
He was president of the Aristotelian Society during 1998/1999 and in 2006 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.