Dr. Garry Potter
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: gpotter@wlu.ca | garrypotter34@aol.comPhone: 519.884.0710 ext.2729
Other Phone: 519.208.0695
Office Location: DAWB 5-138
Office Hours: Winter Term 2013: Wednesday 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., Or by appointment
Personal Website: http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwsoc/faculty/gpotter/index.shtml
Languages Spoken
English
Academic Background
Dr. Potter is the author of The Bet: Truth in Science, Literature and Everyday Knowledges and also of The Philosophy of Social Science: New Perspectives. He co-edited After Postmodernism with Jose Lopez. More recently he wrote and published Dystopia: What is to be done? and made a documentary film of the same title. The film can be viewed for free and downloaded for educational purposes from the website www.DystopiaFilm.com. He recieved hisPhD from the University of Essex.
Biography
Academic Interests: futurology, contemporary and classical social theory, philosophy of social science, sociology of knowledge, critical realism.In the News
Areas of Expertise
- Political economy and sociology of the future;
- Futurology;
- Dystopia;
- Philosophy of social science;
- Marxism
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