Associates
Aurora Philosophy Institute/Institut de philosophie Aurora
List of Associates:
Philip Armstrong (PhD, Solent University), York College; critical realism, modern monetary theory
David Barrows (MA, Northeastern University), Ontario Ministry of Industry retired, Schulich School of Business retired; corporate governance, governance of non-profit organizations, public policy, social planning
Sherman Balogh (MA, McMaster University, MA, University of Toronto), Aurora Philosophy Club; classical civilization, contemporary philosophy, education
Torrey Byles (MA, Southern Oregon University), Consultant; philosophy of money, realism
Trevor Coombes (PhD, La Trobe University), Economist retired; deregulated financial systems, free banking, philosophy of money, subjectivism
Howard Doughty (MA, University of Hawai'i, MEd University of Toronto, MA York University) Seneca College; democratic theory, critical pedagogy
Sheila Dow (PhD, University of Glasgow), University of Victoria, Emerita University of Stirling; methodology, monetary theory, philosophy of economics
Mitja Durnik (PhD, University of Ljubljana), University of Ljubljana; comparative politics, international relations
Judith Goldman (PhD, Columbia University), SUNY Buffalo, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Poetics Program, rhetoric of political economy, value theory, critique of neoliberalism, Marxism
Graham Hubbs (PhD, University of Pittsburgh), University of Idaho, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy; practical rationality, social ontology
Davut Hydyrov (MA, University of Warsaw), Economist/Entrepreneur; income distribution, monetary theory, philosophy of economics
Nick Falvo (PhD, Carleton University), Case Western Reserve University; social policy, affordable housing, homelessness, social assistance
Ronen Grunberg, (B.A., B.Ed, York University), Founder Aurora Philosophy Club; education, metaphysics, philosophy of technology
Geoffrey Ingham (PhD, University of Cambridge), Emeritus University of Cambridge; economic sociology, political economy
Eric Kwena (M.Sc,, Maseno University), Maseno University; philosophy of money and finance
Howard Leznoff (MA, York University), Aurora Philosophy Club; post-modernism, social and political thought
Ani Yeshi Llamo (BA, McMaster University), KPC Temple Maryland; Bhuddism, philosophy of science
Alla Marchenko, (M.Eng, Kiev Polytechnical University), Business Consultant, President Aurora Philosophy Club; metaphysics, philosophy of business and communications, philosophy of science
Alberto D’Ansi Mendoza Espana (PhD, York University), Economist; realist philosophy of money, realism
John Moniz (B.Eng, McMaster University), P.Eng. (ret.), Aurora Philosophy Institute; St. Thomas Aquinas, Neo-scholasticism, social ontology
John Paschakis, (PhD, York University), University of Guelph, York University; classical philosophy, history of economic thought
Mark Peacock, (PhD, University of Cambridge), York University; critical realism, ethics and markets, modern monetary theory, social ontology
George Perendia (PhD, London Metropolitan University), Consultant; economics, ethics, intersubjectivity, philosophy of knowledge
Steven Pressman (PhD, New School for Social Research), Colorado State University, Emeritus Monmouth University; income and wealth inequality, philosophy of economics, public policy
Louis-Phillipe Rochon (PhD, New School for Social Research), Full Professor Laurentian University, Editor-in-Chief, Review of Political Economy, Founding Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics; Post-Keynesian economics, monetary policy, ontology of money
Anthony Rudge (PhD, University of Manchester), University of Birmingham retired; comparative religion
Alla Sheptun (PhD, Moscow Financial Institute), Financial University Moscow; philosophy of money, ontology of money, sociology of money, psychology of money, political economy of money, history of monetary thought, economic methodology, monetary theory
John Smithin (PhD, McMaster University), Emeritus York University; philosophy of money and finance, realism, social ontology
Andrey Tytchino (B.Sc, Carleton University; B.Sc, University of Maine), Director of Research, Quansimex Inc.; artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, philosophy of money and finance
Guillaume Vallet (PhD, University of Grenoble Alpes, PhD, University of Geneva/EHESS Paris), Economist and Sociologist; gender, money, progressive era
Veronica Vicherek (B.Sc, York University), Aurora Philosophy Club; physics, theology
Brenda Spotton Visano (PhD, McGill University), Distinguished University Professor York University; gender, social ontology, social policy
Klaus Weiermair (PhD, Vienna University of Economics and Business), Professor Emeritus, Schulich School of Business and University of Innsbruck, influence of culture, management theory, labour economics
Leonardis Zelmanovitz (PhD, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), Senior Fellow Liberty Fund; ethics and markets, philosophy of money, social ontology
Executive Co-Directors; Alla Marchenko: allamarchenko@yahoo.com
John Smithin: jsmithin2010@hotmail.com