Brandon Beasley, Ph.D.

I am a Lecturer in the Departments of Humanities and General Education at Mount Royal University, and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary.

I work on pragmatist approaches to intentionality, meaning, normativity, and naturalism, animated by the question of the place of mind and agency in the natural world. As such, my work engages with issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and language, as well as, and in interaction with, work on historical pragmatist philosophers (in particular Dewey, Peirce, and Sellars). I also work on Kant and Hegel and, in general, at the intersection of German Idealism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy.

Please use the links at the top of the page to find out more about me and my research. Thanks for stopping by!

NEWS

March 18, 2025 - Found out that I and some colleagues will be presenting a panel at the Fifth European Pragmatism Conference in St. Gallen, Switzerland this August. Our panel, "Pragmatism and Purposes in Science and Philosophy", consists of Rachel Cristy of Kings College London, Niall Roe of Cambridge University, Oscar Westerblad of the University of Iceland, and yours truly. Wir sehen uns in der Schweiz!

November 20, 2024 - The Fall issue of William James Studies has appeared, including my article “Appreciating the Mind of a Friend: A Josiah Royce Autograph Inscription About William James”. Take a look here.

September 23, 2024 - Along with the excitement of a new Fall semester of teaching comes the good news that my first book, Pragmatism and the Problem of Reason in Nature: Meaning, Naturalism, and the Threat of Semantic Nihilism, is now under contract with Routledge. Both of these developments will be keeping me rather busy for the next while.

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