Name: Peter Fruchter

Position: Part-time faculty member in the Division of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at York University

Notoriety: Peter Fruchter, M.A., LL.B. is a retired lawyer and philosopher of science. His areas of teaching include the history and philosophy of science, culture & technology, and the philosophy of law.

Profile: Peter completed an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Waterloo before studying law at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School. At graduation he was the winner of the Rogers, Bereskin & Parr prize in intellectual property law.

Peter was called to the Ontario bar in 1991 and practiced law before concluding that the practice of law was inconsistent with justice.

He returning to York to complete a master's degree in Philosophy. His thesis, "Scientific Explanation and the Deductive-Nomological Model: Historical Perspective, the Modern View and a Defence" interrogated Popperian criteria of explanation in the philosophy of science.

Peter was pursuing PhD studies in the philosophy of science at the University of Western Ontario until he he interrupting his doctoral work to co-found an internet firm, publish articles on democracy and the internet, write and publish poetry, busk, work as a bicycle courier, serve as a notary public, and accumulate and manage real estate holdings.

Peter also plays the saxophone and is married to environmental phenomenologist and geographer Amy Lavender Harris, they live in The Junction neighbourhood.

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