Mark Mercer

Mark Mercer

Philosophy
Professor
Phone: 902-420-5825
Office: MN524
Email: mark.mercer@smu.ca

Home Page:  http://professormarkmercer.ca/

Degrees: B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Teaching: Epistemology; Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Plato and the Presocratics

Recent Publications:  “Enforcing Respect in a Canadian University,” Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations (2025); “Why Vile Speech Should Attract No Official Notice,” Newsletter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (September 2024); “Academic Culture,” Newsletter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (June 2024); “Why Freedom of Expression Should Reign Supreme in University Life,” International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (2022); In Praise of Dangerous Universities and Other Essays (2022); “Instructor’s Statement on Freedom of Expression in the Classroom,” Minding the Campus (2021); “The Unbearable Irreverence of Philosophy,” Teach Philosophy with a Sense of Humor (2021); “Self-Censorship and the Academic Mission,” Academic Questions (2021); “Herodotus over Thucydides,” The Civil Conversation (2021); “Why Scholars Won’t Research Group Differences,” Academic Questions (2020)