Graeme Hunter

Biography

Research Professor Graeme Hunter is a historian of philosophy who publishes for the most part on philosophers of the Early Modern Period. His latest book (2012 and 2013) is on Pascal. He has also written or edited books on Spinoza and Leibniz and is currently doing research toward a book on Descartes. Other interests span the history of the discipline. He has published on Plato, Cicero, Hobbes, Descartes, Arnauld, Kant, Bertrand Russell and David Lewis, and in the fields of metaphysics, aesthetics and philosophical logic. For many years Hunter has been a contributing editor to the magazine Touchstone, with contributions along the way also to First Things, Crisis, The New Oxford Review, and a number of Canadian newspapers. Some of his more polemical journalistic pieces are included in the collection In the Agora (2006): The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, edited by Andrew Irvine and John Russell.

Research Interest

Philosophers of the Early Modern Period.