Joseph
Heath
Joseph Heath is a professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous academic and popular works, including Filthy Lucre, The Efficient Society, and (with Andrew Potter) The Rebel Sell. Heath received a Trudeau fellowship in 2012. He lives in Toronto.
Videos
Joseph Heath on Enlightenment 2.0
Award History
2014 Winner
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writingfor Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives
Jury Citation
“A magisterial survey of the shambles that remains of the Enlightenment’s great promise, Joseph Heath’s Enlightenment 2.0 is a vivid chronicle of the descent of contemporary politics into a bedlam of competing irrationalities and appeals to unreason. Drawing deeply from popular culture, the social sciences, psychology, and public policy, Enlightenment 2.0 is an important work of serious philosophy that is at the same time lively, lucid, engaging, and entertaining.” – 2014 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury (Denise Chong, Terry Galvin, Jane Taber)
