Leonard Angel

BA (McGill); MA, Philosophy; MA, Creative Writing and Theatre; PhD, Philosophy (British Columbia)
Philosophy of Religion, Mysticism, Ethics, Theory of Knowledge, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Asian Philosophy, Philosophical Counseling, Meta-Philosophy, and Critical Thinking

Telephone: (604) 527-5427
Email: Leonard_Angel@douglas.bc.ca

Instructor, Philosophy and Humanities Department, Douglas College
Director, Institute for Ethics and Global Justice, Douglas College

Areas of interest

Philosophy of Religion, Mysticism, Meditation, Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, Theory of Knowledge, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Asian Philosophy, Critical Thinking (A Format for Multifactoral Reasoning), Philosophical Counselling, and Secular Wisdom Cultivation

Principal Publications

Philosophy

• The Silence of the Mystic , 1983 (Philosophy in Canada Monographs)
• How to Build a Conscious Machine , 1989 (Westview Press)
• Enlightenment East and West, 1994 (SUNY Press)

Fiction / Poetry

• The Book of Miriam, 1997 (Mosaic Press)

Plays

• Incident After Antietam and Isadora and GBS , 1976 (Playwrights Union of Canada)
• The Unveiling , 1982 (PUC)
• Eleanor Marx , 1984 (PUC)