Douglas McDermid (b. 1969) is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, where he has taught since 2002. He earned his BA in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario in 1992, and his PhD from Brown University in 1998.
Prior to coming to Trent, he spent two years (1998-2000) as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), followed by two years (2000-2002) in a tenure-track position at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Professor McDermid is the author of two books: The Varieties of Pragmatism (Bloomsbury, 2006) and The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism (Oxford University Press, 2018). His current research interests include the history of Scottish philosophy, the history of American philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy and literature.