Leslie Armour - Academic Career

Academic Career

Armour completed a BA at the University of British Columbia in 1952 and a PhD at the University of London in 1956. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Research Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican University College, Ottawa, Adjunct Professor of Philosophical Theology at St. Paul University, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He has taught at universities in Montana, California, and Ohio. Since 2004 he has been editor of the International Journal of Social Economics. His current areas of study include metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy, and the philosophical underpinnings of economics and "he is a pioneer in publishing early Canadian philosophy and has philosophical publications in metaphysics, religion, law, politics and economics". Armour has contributed significantly to the interdisciplinary school of Canadian Studies.

He has authored nine books (three with co-authors), more than seventy chapters in books and a hundred articles in scholarly journals. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences on economics, religious studies and French and German philosophy. There is a bibliography to 2001 and extensive commentaries on Armour's work in William Sweet's Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community.