David Collins
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David Collins is a philosopher specializing in aesthetics, as well as ethics and moral philosophy. He is also a specialist in the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, with additional interests in thinkers including Henri Bergson, William James, John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Murdoch, and Roger Scruton. His work often synthesizes the views of thinkers from different historical eras and philosophical traditions (such as pragmatism or phenomenology) to offer new approaches to issues in current philosophy. Collins was awarded the Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellowship in 2024, and continues to hold this position as Churchill College, Cambridge.
David earned his PhD in philosophy from McGill University in 2021, preceded by an MA in philosophy from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2014. He also holds a BFA in film production as well as an MFA in screenwriting from York University. Having taught film at Sheridan College in Ontario, Collins most recently held a 2-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford’s faculty of philosophy, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
