Mark Garron

Mark earned a Bachelor’s degree in finance from The University of Western Ontario in 1984. He held various finance related positions in the City of London and in Toronto, Canada. He worked for firms such as Merrill Lynch, ED&F Man and GE Capital before starting a web design, transaction processing and servicing company.

After a career in business, Mark decided to return to academia to study philosophy. Mark earned his master’s degree from York University in Canada in 2018.

Through his career in finance, Mark saw the role of time in the meaning, value and the ontology of money. Mark is concerned about the persistence of currency as money. He intends to research how such a persistence demonstrates individual and collective attitudes about the manifest image of time. It looks like money acts as a gauge of these attitudes. Therefore, it should clarify broadly what is the manifest image of time.

Mark intends to reconcile the manifest image of time and the scientific image of time. This would be a robust scientific image of time that includes the ontologies of the special sciences such as the social sciences.

Thesis title

Time and the value of money