Adam Morton

Adam Morton FRSC (1945 – 2020) was a Canadian philosopher.

Morton's work focused on how we understand one another's behaviour in everyday life, with an emphasis on the role mutual intelligibility plays in cooperative activity.

He also wrote on ethics, decision-making, philosophy of language and epistemology.

His later work concerned our vocabulary for evaluating and monitoring our thinking.

[2] Morton authored Frames of Mind: Constraints on the Common Sense Conception of the Mental (1980), Disasters and Dilemmas: Strategies for Real-life Decision Making (1990), The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics (2002), On Evil (2005), Bounded Thinking: Intellectual Virtues for Limited Agents (2012), Emotion and Imagination (2013), and two textbooks, A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge (2002) and Philosophy in Practice (2003).