Cheryl Jayne Misak (born July 16, 1961) is a Canadian philosopher and academic administrator who works in pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics. She is a university professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in intellectual and cultural history.
From 2003 to 2005, Misak served as vice-principal, academic and dean of the University of Toronto Mississauga and as acting vice-president and principal of the campus from 2006 to 2007. She was vice-president and provost of the University of Toronto from 2009 to 2013 and is appointed as a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science's Department of Philosophy, based on the St. George campus. She was also president of the Charles S. Peirce Society in 2011. In December 2020, Misak became the interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Misak was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. She received her BA from the University of Lethbridge, her MA from Columbia University, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Publications
Authored books Misak, Cheryl J. (2025). Oxford Pragmatism: Ryle and Austin's Debt. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198875888. OCLC 1521405046.
Misak, Cheryl J. (1995) Verificationism: Its History and Prospects (Philosophical Issues in Science). Routledge. .
Edited books Misak, Cheryl; Price, Huw, eds. (2017). The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century. The British Academy Misak, Cheryl, ed. (2008). The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford University Press. Misak, Cheryl, ed. (2007). New Pragmatists. Oxford University Press.
Selected papers
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External links (Archived 2019)