John E. MacKinnon

John E. MacKinnon

Philosophy
Associate Professor
Phone: 902-420-5821
Office: MN532
Email: john.mackinnon@smu.ca

Degrees: B.A. (Hons.) (McGill), M.A. (Toronto), M.Phil. (Exeter), Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Teaching: Aesthetics; Aristotle and the Hellenists; Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Art; Kant; Philosophy and Literature; Philosophy and Film; Philosophy of History; Philosophy of Language

Publications:

“Lionel Trilling and the Importance of Returning Serve,” Philosophy and Literature (forthcoming).

 Editor, Beyond Reptile Wisdom: Warren Zevon and Philosophy (Chicago: Carus Publishers, 2023).

“Holt Sings the Body Kinetic,” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 17.3 (July 2023): 374-379.

“Narrative Rhyme and the Good Life,” Philosophy and Literature 42.1 (April 2018): 1-29.

“Frank Sibley,” in Michael Kelley (ed.) Encyclopedia of Aesthetics [Second Edition] (Oxford University Press; 2014)

“The Road to Wellnessville,” Philosophy and Literature (October 2013)

“Spells of Trauma in Catherine Bush’s Minus Time,” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (2010)

Review of Douglas Walton’s Abductive Reasoning, Review of Metaphysics (2006)

“Risk and Resilience in Catherine Bush’s Minus Time,” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2006)

“Law and Tenderness in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader,” Law and Literature (2004)

“Crime, Compassion, and The Reader,” Philosophy and Literature (2003)

“Aesthetic Supervenience: For and Against,” British Journal of Aesthetics (2001)