Rate My Professor Andrew Irvine

Andrew Irvine is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science. He earned his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1986, his MA from the University of Western Ontario in 1981, and his BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1980. His research centers on Bertrand Russell, the philosophy of mathematics and logic, censorship, and the rule of law. He has taught at UBC Vancouver, the University of Toronto, and Simon Fraser University, and has held visiting fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. Irvine previously served as Head of the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science at UBC Okanagan, Senior Advisor to the UBC President, and Vice-Chair of the UBC Board of Governors. He is a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada. Among his publications are the books Canada’s Storytellers: The GG Literary Award Laureates (2021), The Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada: A Bibliography (2018), Socrates on Trial (2008), Argument: Critical Thinking, Logic and the Fallacies (co-authored, 2000 and 2004 editions), and Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments (editor, 4 volumes, 1999). He has also co-authored The Ethics and Economics of Liberal Democracies (2024) and contributed articles on topics including Aristotle on the rule of law and Bertrand Russell’s logic.