Dr. Peter Denton

Title: Contract Academic Staff
Email: p.denton@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

After graduating from high school in Selkirk, Peter followed a multidisciplinary path that included: B.A. (Hons.) in English and History (Winnipeg); M.A. in English (UNB); M.A. in the history and philosophy of science and technology (IHPST, Toronto); M.Div. (Knox College, Toronto); and Ph.D. in Religion and the Social Sciences (McMaster).

He is the author or editor of seven books, including Imagine a Joyful Economy (with James Gustave Speth) (Wood Lake Books, 2020); Live Close to Home (RMB, 2016), Technology and Sustainability (RMB, 2014); Gift Ecology: Reimagining a Sustainable World (RMB, 2012); Believers in the Battlespace: Religion, Ideology and War (CDA Press, 2011); Battleground: Science and Technology (with Sal Restivo) (2 vols., Greenwood, 2008); and The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion and the Next War, 1919-1938 (SUNY, 2001 – his interdisciplinary dissertation).  He has been a regular contributor of book reviews to Essays in Philosophy, for which journal he was also guest editor for issues on the philosophy of technology (2005) and on the philosophy of democracy (2015).

Research Associate at the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics since 2007, Peter has taught the distance course in ethics and society (PHIL 2290) for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba since 2002, and PHIL 1290 (Critical Thinking) for the International College of Manitoba since 2010.

A writer and activist, much of his current interdisciplinary research and teaching involves applied ethics, especially related to sustainability issues/environmental ethics; ethics and technology; biomedical ethics; religion and ecology; and religion and war. He has been a regular contributor of op eds on ecological justice issues (100+ to date) to the Winnipeg Free Press since 2015.