Jack Zupko, BA, MA, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept
Chair, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept
Email
zupko@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-4108
Address
2-63 Assiniboia Hall
9137 116 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2E7

Chair, Faculty of Arts - Philosophy Dept
Email
zupko@ualberta.ca

Availability
Fall 2021: M 11:00-11:50 a.m. (virtual); W 11:00-11:50 a.m. (in person); and by appt.

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

medieval philosophy metaphysics logic philosophy of religion


About

Jack Zupko, Ph.D.—Professor of Philosophy. A graduate of Cornell University, Professor Zupko specializes in medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He has published numerous research articles and four books, including John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts Master (Notre Dame), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2003, and, most recently, Duns Scotus on Time and Existence (with Edward Buckner) (CUA Press 2014), a translation and commentary on Scotus’ Questions on Aristotle’s De interpretatione. He has served as medieval subject editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy since 1998, and was Book Review Editor (2005-13) and Editor (2015-20) of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. He edited and translated Book III of John Buridan’s question commentary on Aristotle’s De anima, forthcoming with Springer. Professor Zupko received awards for his teaching while on the faculties of Emory University and San Diego State University. Prior to coming to the University of Alberta in 2013, he was Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Winnipeg.


Research

medieval logic and semantics; later medieval Aristotelianism, especially natural philosophy; 14th-century origins of modernity


Teaching

medieval and Renaissance philosophy; metaphysics; philosophy of religion; history of philosophy; history of logic; ethics

Featured Publications

Jack Zupko

Quaderni di Noctua. 2019 October; 5


Jack Zupko

The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy, ed. Magali Roques and Nicolas Faucher. 2019 January; Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind, and Action, 7 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature):333-46


Jack Zupko

Metaphysics. 2018 September; I (1):88-96