James Tully (philosopher), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian philosopher
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Place of Birth: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
About James Tully (philosopher)
- James Hamilton Tully (; born 1946) is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Canada.
- Tully is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation..
- He is one of the most influential and distinctive political philosophers writing today. In May 2014, he was awarded the University of Victoria’s David H.
- Turpin Award for Career Achievement in Research.
- In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize and the Thousand Waves Peacemaker Award in recognition of his distinguished career and exceptional contributions to Canadian scholarship and public life.
- Also in 2010, he was awarded the C.B.
- Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association for the "best book in political theory written in English or French" in Canada 2008-10 for his 2008 two-volume Public Philosophy in a New Key.
- He completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and now teaches at the University of Victoria. His research and teaching comprise a public philosophy that is grounded in place (Canada) yet reaches out to the world of civic engagement with the problems of our time.
- He does this in ways that strive to contribute to dialogue between academics and citizens.
- For example, his research areas include the Canadian experience of coping with the deep diversity of multicultural and multinational citizenship; relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous people; and the emergence of citizenship of the living earth as the ground of sustainable futures.
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