Ronald de Sousa

Ronald de Sousa is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was raised in Switzerland and England; his BA is from Oxford  and his PhD from Princeton. He has lived and taught in Toronto since 1966, with only brief interruptions for visiting appointments (in Canada, the US, the UK, Switzerland, and China.)  He is the author of /The Rationality of Emotion/ (MIT 1987) /Why Think:? Evolution and the Rational Mind /(OUP 2007) and /Emotional Truth/ (OUP 2011), as well as over a hundred journal articles and book chapters.  His research interests, reflected in a sample of articles and reviews available on his website, focus on emotions, evolutionary theory, cognitive science, and sex, as well as the puzzle of the stubbornness of religious belief and other superstitions. His next book, also from OUP, is to be a Very Short Introduction to Love.

To find out more about him, please visit his website.

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