 Bernard
Suits
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Canada
phone: (519) 888-4567
fax: (519) 746-3097
Research interests:
- Philosophy of Games, Ethics, Aristotle.
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- Education:
- B.A. and M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D, University of Illinois.
Publications:
- Professor Suits is best know for his book The
Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (University of Toronto
Press, 1978, 1980, and 1990 jointly with David R.Godine), re-issued
by Broadview Press in 2005 with a new introduction by Thomas Hurka.
Articles by Suits have appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy
of Science, Ethics, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Proceedings
of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Dialogue, Canadian
Philosophical Reviews, Canadian Journal of Comparative
Literature, Nineteenth Century Fiction, Journal
of the Philosophy of Sport, Simulation and Games, Philosophy
of the Social Sciences, and in the following anthologies: Sport
and the Body (Lea and Febiger, 1972), The Philosophy of
Sport (Charles C. Thomas, 1973), Utopias (Duckworth, l984), Philosophic
Inquiry in Sport (Human Kinetics, 1988), Texte und Spiele (Academia,
1996), Der
Kriminalroman (UTB, 1998),
Sportethik (Mentis, 2004), The Game Design Reader (MIT, 2005).
Professor Suits served a term as Chair of the Waterloo Philosophy
Department and a term as Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the
Faculty of Arts. He has been a visiting professor at the University
of Lethbridge and at the University of Bristol (UK). In 1982 he was
special guest in a seven part TVOntario series, The Academy on Moral
Philosophy. He is recipient of the University of Waterloo Distinguished
Teaching Award. In 2004 he was presented with the Distinguished Scholar
Award by the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport,
of which he is a past president. He is listed in Who's Who in America.
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