Professor John Haldane
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy
and Public Affairs
University of St. Andrews
John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, where he also directs the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. Since 2002, he has served as the Director of Teaching in Philosophy at St. Andrews. Haldane attended the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Rochester, the Wimbledon School of Art in London for a B.A. in Fine Art in 1975, University of London, Institute of Education for a P.G.C.E. degree in 1976, and the University of London, Birkbeck College for a B.A. in Philosophy in 1980; and a Ph.D in 1984. He has taught at universities across the U.K. and in the U.S. as well, including the Thomistic Institute at the University of Notre Dame in 1994, 1996, 1999 and the University of St Thomas in 2003. His Atheism and Theism, co-authored with J. J. C. Smart (Blackwell, 1996), was listed by Blackwell in its "Tomorrow's Classics" list. His Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion was published by Duckworth in 2003, and Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical by Routledge in 2004. He has published articles on a wide variety of topics, including aesthetics, art, philosophy of education, ethics, the history of philosophy, the philosophy of mind, political and social philosophy, and theology.
Haldane's "Thomistic Ethics in America" lecture in 2000 at the University of Notre Dame was sponsored by the Center. He was an invited speaker for our "Culture of Life" conference in 2001. He also delivered the J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture on Medical Ethics for the annual Notre Dame Medical Ethics Conference held in London in 2005.
