Cheryl Misak

Cheryl J. Misak FRSC is a Canadian philosopher who works in pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics. She is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in intellectual and cultural history. In 2011, Misak served as president of the Charles S. Peirce Society. In December 2020, Misak became the interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.

Misak was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. She received her BA from the University of Lethbridge, her MA from Columbia University, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Publications

• Misak, Cheryl J. (2000). Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-16228-6. OCLC 179161004.
• Misak, Cheryl J. (2004). Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-151963-5. OCLC 370946282.
• Misak, Cheryl, ed. (July 12, 2004). The Cambridge Companion to Peirce. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/ccol0521570069. ISBN 978-0-521-57006-0.
• Misak, Cheryl (August 2005). "ICU Psychosis and Patient Autonomy: Some Thoughts from the Inside". The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 30 (4): 411–430. doi:10.1080/03605310591008603. ISSN 0360-5310. PMID 16029990.
• Misak, Cheryl J. (2013). The American Pragmatists. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-165138-0. OCLC 828143682.
• Misak, Cheryl J. (October 18, 2016). Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-102004-9. OCLC 957738331.
• Misak, Cheryl J. (2020). Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-875535-7. OCLC 1102642049.