William Seager (philosopher)
William Edward Seager (born April 11, 1952 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian philosopher. Now retired, he spent his career as a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His academic specialties lie in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science.

He received his B.A.(1973) and his M.A. (1976) from the University of Alberta. Seager received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Ronald de Sousa, with a thesis on "Materialism and the Foundations of Representation."

He was Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy between 2003 and 2013.

In 2023, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

He splits his time between Toronto and Nova Scotia.

Publications

Books
The Leibniz Lexicon: A Dual Concordance to Leibniz's Philosophische Schriften. Hildesheim: Olms, 1988. (With R. McRae, R. Finster, G. Hunter, M. Miles.)
Metaphysics of Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1991. 
Theories of Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1999.  
Natural Fabrications: Science, Emergence, and Consciousness. Berlin: Springer Frontier Collection, 2012.
Theories of Consciousness 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 2016.
The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (editor) London: Routledge, 2019.

References

External links
Official web site at University of Toronto
Google Scholar

1952 births
Living people
Philosophers of mind
Academic staff of the University of Toronto Scarborough
People from Edmonton
Philosophers of science
21st-century Canadian philosophers
University of Alberta alumni
University of Toronto alumni