Faculty Member, Ethics, Society, and Law (ES&L)
On research leave: 2011-12
University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto
About
John Duncan completed his PhD in the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University in 1998, immediately after which he joined the faculty at the University of King’s College in Halifax. In 2002 he founded the international bilingual society for the study of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) and served as its president until May 2009. During a 2004-05 sabbatical leave he was Ashley Fellow at the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto, a year in which he co-founded the journal *PhaenEx*, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal listed by the Philosopher’s Index. In the summer of 2005 he was appointed assistant professor and the director of the Ethics, Society, and Law (ES&L) program at Trinity, as well as an instructor in the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program in ethics, international relations, and public policy. In the fall of 2006, he became an executive member of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics. Beginning at Trinity in 2007 and continuing in partnership with Victoria University in the University of Toronto (where he is a fellow) from 2010, he co-founded the Humanities for Humanity outreach program and remains its academic director. Starting from the 2011-12 year he has led Victoria College's Culture, Conflict, and the Media seminar, and served as the academic director for its Theatre for Thought outreach program, both of which are part of Victoria's Ideas for the World co-curricular program. He has co-edited a volume on the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as well as various issues of *PhaenEx*, and written chapters, articles, reviews and opinion pieces, on the history of philosophy, continental philosophy, and politics.
