{"id":11688,"date":"2024-01-18T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11688"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:27:30","slug":"steven-davis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/steven-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Steven Davis\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Davis was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the9:30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 15, \u201cin recognition of his valuable contribution to the promotion of higher education in developing countries and his distinguished academic career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Steven-Davis.png\" alt=\"Steven Davis\" class=\"wp-image-11690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Steven-Davis.png 174w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Steven-Davis-160x193.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Davis has taught philosophy at several universities in Canada, Europe and the United States and is currently Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University and Carleton University. At Carleton, he founded and directed the Centre on Values and Ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2007, he founded Academics without Borders, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works to improve programs and services at universities in developing countries, which he directed until last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davis is a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and has edited several collections of essays and articles in various areas of philosophy, including philosophy of language and the mind, as well as normative ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lyDZyn750g4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Steven Davis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Davis was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the9:30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 15, \u201cin recognition of his valuable contribution to the promotion of higher education in developing countries and his distinguished academic career.\u201d Davis has taught philosophy at several universities in Canada, Europe and the United States and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13406,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11688\/revisions\/13406"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}