Ronald de Sousa

Ronald de Sousa
Born	1940 (age 83–84) Switzerland
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Princeton University (PhD, 1966)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Toronto
Thesis	Categories, Translation, and Linguistic Theory (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Benacerraf
Main interests	Philosophy of emotions

Ronald Bon de Sousa Pernes (/də ˈsuːzə/ də SOO-zə; born 1940) is a Swiss-born Canadian philosopher and academic. He is an emeritus professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto, which he joined in 1966.

Biography

De Sousa possesses both UK and Canadian citizenship. Educated in Switzerland and England, he took his B.A. at New College, Oxford University in 1962, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1966. His thesis Categories, Translation, and Linguistic Theory was supervised by Paul Benacerraf.

He is best known for his work in philosophy of emotions, and has also made contributions to philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2005.

Books

• The Rationality of Emotion (1987) ISBN 0-262-54057-6 (German translation 1997; Chinese translation 2006)
• Évolution et Rationalité (2004) ISBN 978-2-13-053530-0
• 'Why think? Evolution and the Rational Mind' (2007) ISBN 978-0-19-518985-8
• Emotional Truth (2011) ISBN 9780195181548
• Love: A Very Short Introduction (2015) ISBN 978-0-19-966384-2