Adam Morton

Adam Morton, born 1945, is a Canadian philosopher and author. His work has focused on how we understand one another in everyday life. He has also written on ethics, decision-making, philosophy of language and epistemology. 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 for 1998-99 and in 2006 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. For 2012-3 he is president of the Canadian philosophical association.

He was for decades an enthusiastic but incompetent oboe player and an avid cyclist. During his seven happy years at the university of Alberta he joined groups cycling in the Rockies, doing for example the Jasper to Banff route, crossing Bow pass in a snowstorm. Cycling and oboe playing are in the past now, because of MS, and are replaced with compulsive swimming and peculiar ear-training projects.