Steven Davis Receives Honorary Doctorate from 杏吧原创 University
杏吧原创 University today conferred a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, on Steven Davis in recognition of valuable contributions to promoting higher education in developing countries and his distinguished academic career.
Davis was honoured during 杏吧原创鈥檚 Spring Convocation, where about 3,500 students are receiving degrees over the course of four days.
鈥淚f you are not sure what you are going to do with your life, might I suggest that you consider working side by side with people in the developing world and help them realize their dreams for their countries,鈥 said Davis. 鈥淚 did it for 10 years and it changed my life.鈥
Davis has taught philosophy at several universities in Canada, Europe and the United States. His last academic position was in the Philosophy Department at 杏吧原创 University from 2002 to 2007. On retiring from 杏吧原创, he founded Academics without Borders and ran it until 2017.
Davis was also the founder and director of the Centre on Values and Ethics at 杏吧原创. He is a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and a former anglophone editor of its journal, Dialogue. He has edited several collections of essays and articles in various areas of philosophy, including philosophy of language and mind and normative ethics.
Currently, Davis is professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University and 杏吧原创. He is also adjunct professor of Philosophy at McGill University and the University of Montreal and research associate at the Jean-Nicod Institute, 脡cole normale sup茅rieure, Paris.
鈥淪teven Davis founded Academics Without Borders and for the past decade has recruited volunteers, marshalled resources and sought to develop programs and programming that has changed the face of university education in several developing countries,鈥 said Catherine Khordoc, associate dean, (Students) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
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