Peter Alward

Peter Wallace Brannen Alward (born 1964) is a Canadian philosopher. He is a Professor in Philosophy and the Department Head in Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. He is known for his works on philosophy of fiction, philosophy of art and environmental philosophy.^[1][2][3][4] In 2016 Alward was awarded Tenured Professor Essay Prize by The Canadian Philosophical Association.^[5]

Peter Alward
Born	1964 (age 60–61)
Education
Education	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD)
Thesis	Believed World Semantics (1998)
Doctoral advisor	William Lycan, Keith Simmons
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	University of Saskatchewan
Main interests	Philosophy of fiction
Website	https://peteralward.wordpress.com/

Books

• Philosophical Problems: an introductory text in philosophy, Broadview, 2017.
• Empty Revelations: an essay on talk about, and attitudes toward, fiction, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.