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CURRICULUM VITAE March 2017
FRANK CUNNINGHAM
Short Form excluding book reviews, supervisions, academic & community service. Full CV available on request.
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy & Political Science, University of Toronto
Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University
2055 Pendrell St. #1903 [email protected]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6G 1T9 web: www.frankcunningham.ca
604-565-1116
ACADEMIC HISTORY
Ph.D. University of Toronto 1970
M.A. University of Chicago 1965
B.A. Indiana University 1962
University of Toronto Appointments
Philosophy Department: Lecturer 1967; Assistant Professor, 1970; Associate Professor, 1974; Professor, 1986.
Department of Political Science: Cross Appointment, 2000.
Cities Centre, University of Toronto, 2007 - 2013.
Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto, 2009 - .
Simon Fraser Appointment, Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies, 2015-
Associate Position
Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, 2013 -
Visiting Positions
University of Amsterdam, Fall 1990
Lanzhou University (PRC), Spring, 199l
Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), Fall 1994, Fall 1997, Spring 2007
University of Rome (I), Spring 1999
Posts
Interim Director, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, 2011
Principal, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2000- 2005
President, Canadian Philosophical Association, 1997-98 (Vice President, 1996-97)
Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1982- 88 (Associate Chair, 1977-8; Acting Chair, 1991-92)
HONOURS
Recipient, SAC/APUS Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005
Recipient, Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto, 1999 -
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1995 -
Faculty Teaching Fellow, University of Toronto, 1974-75
Mary Beatty Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1965-66
School of Letters Fellowship, Indiana University, 1964-5
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1962-63
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Phi Beta Kappa, 1962
Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1961-62
TEACHING
Introductory Courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Science and Society (in the Faculty of Applied
Science and Engineering), Environmental Ethics.
Mid-level Courses: Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Social Science, Marxism, Social and Political Philosophy
(focuses in different years have included: Multiculturalism, Racism, Globalism, World Hunger, Equality, Cities).
Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Courses: Democratic Theory, Urban Philosophy.
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Books
Philosophy: The Big Questions (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2003). Textbook coauthored with three secondary
school teachers for use in Ontario’s grades 11 and 12 philosophy course. Available on-line at: http://ontariophilosophy/ca
click on either Grade 11 or Grade 12.
Theories of Democracy: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2002); Serbian translation (Belgrade: Filip Visnjic,
2003); Japanese translation (Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo, 2004); Portuguese translation (Porto Alegre: Artmed Editora SA,
2009).
The Real World of Democracy Revisited and Other Essays on Socialism and Democracy (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.:
Humanities Press, 1994); Japanese translation (Kyoto: Houritsu Bunkasha, 1994).
Democratic Theory and Socialism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, l987); Italian translation (Rome: Riuniti,
199l); Japanese translation (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoron-sha, 1992).
Co-editor, Social Movements/Social Change, Socialist Studies Annual Vol. 4, (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1988).
Understanding Marxism: A Canadian Introduction (Toronto: Progress Publishers, 1977).
Objectivity in Social Science (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973).
Published Papers / Contributions to Collections (Some papers are available on my personal website; some others by
request.)
Entry on “Phalanstery,” The Encyclopedia of Social Theory, forthcoming.
Entry on “Urban Philosophy in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project,” Routledge Handbook of Urban Philosophy,
forthcoming.
“Was C.B. Macpherson a Crypto Philosopher?,” Review essay of Phillip Hansen’s Reconsidering C.B. Macpherson, with
a reply by Hansen and a rejoinder to the reply, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 49, no. 3 (September 2016)
559-574.
“Democratic Theory,” entry in James Wright, ed., International Encylopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd
edition, vol. 6 (Oxford: Elsevier 2015) 90-96.
Entries on “Pluralism” (4846-4848), “Pragmatism” (4995-4999), and “Virtue Ethics” (6943-6947), Encyclopedia of
Quality of Life and Well Being Research, A.C. Michalos, ed. (Heidelberg: Springer, 2014).
“Urban Aboriginal Sovereignty and ‘Homefulness’,” in Philosophy and Aboriginal Rights: Critical Dialogues, Sandra
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Tomsons and Lorraine Mayer, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 272-282.
“Introductions” to Oxford University Press’s reissuing of books by C.B. Macpherson: Possessive Individualism (2011),
Democratic Theory (2012), The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (2012), Burke (2013), The Rise and Fall of
Economic Justice (2013).
“The city, the university, and multiculturalism,” supplement to Forschung Frankfurt: The University and the City (Goethe
University: Frankfurt, 2012) 12-13.
“L’Université et la Justice Sociale,” dans Penser les institutions, Patrick Turmel, et. al., dirs. (Québec: Presses de
l’Université Laval, 2012) 163-184.
“The Gruing of Cities” in The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment, Stephen Scharper and Ingrid
Stafanovic. eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Fall, 2012) 50-64. Available from personal website.
“The Virtues of Urban Citizenship,” City, Culture, and Society, Vol. 2, No. 1 (March 2011) 35-44. Available from personal
website.
“The Governance of Toronto: Challenges of Size and Complexity,” with Richard Stren, et. al., Cities Centre, University of
Toronto publication, June 2010.
“Triangulating Utopia: Manfredo Tafuri, Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre,” City: analysis of urban trends, culture,
theory, policy, action, Vol. 14, No. 3 (June 2010) 268-277. Available from personal website.
“Public Spaces and Subversion,” in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space, Mark Kingwell and Patrick
Turmel, eds. (Waterloo, On.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009) 85-99. Available from personal website.
“The University Public and its Enemies,” Janice Newson and Claire Polster, eds., Academic Callings (Toronto: Canadian
Scholars Press, 2009) 219-227.
“Class and Democracy in American Politics,” Seishin-Kagaku, No. 47 (March 2009) 49-64.
“Globalization and Developmental Democracy,” Ethical Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2008) 487-505. Available from
personal website.
“The Political Theory of C.B. Macpherson and Globalization” (in Japanese translation), Ritsumeikan Daiguku-
Jinmonkagaku-kenkyoji-kiyo, Vol. 90 (2008).
“The Global Public and its Problems,” in Deen Chaterjee, ed., Democracy in a Global World (Roman & Littlefield, 2007).
201-21. Japanese translation, Ritsumeikan Hogaku, Vol. 319, No. 3 (2008) 127-143.
“What’s Wrong With Inequality,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Web Publication, (November 2007) 1-10,
http://www.growinggap.ca/node/93. Available on personal website and in hard copy as “The Trouble with Inequality,” The
CCPA Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Vol. 14, No. 5 (October 2007) 21-24.
“Cities: A Philosophical Inquiry,” Centre for Urban and Community Studies Research Bulletin #39, University of Toronto,
Sept. 2007. Available on personal website and at http://www.urbancentre.Autoronto.ca/researchbulletin.html
click Cunningham 39. Available from personal website.
“The University and Social Justice,” The Journal of Academic Ethics, Vol. 5 (2007) 153-162.
“Twilight of the Modern Princes,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Winter 2006) 566-583. An early version
is available in Japanese translation, Globalization Theory; Problematics and Perspectives, Yoshikazu Nakatani, ed.
(Kyoto: Horitsu Bunka Sha, 2007) 198-223.
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“Counter-Oppressive Terrorism,” Moral Issues in Global Perspective, Vol. 1, 2nd
, Cristine Koggel, ed. (Toronto:
Broadview Press, 2006) 331-340).
“The Conflicting Truths of Religion and Democracy,” in John Rowan, ed., Human Rights, Religion and Democracy
(Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2005) 65-80. Available from personal website.
“Market Economies and Market Societies,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Summer 2005) 129-142 .
“Retrieving Macpherson,” review article of Jules Townshend’s C.B. Macpherson and the Problem of Liberal Democracy,
Science & Society, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Summer 2003) 236-244..
“TYP and University Boundaries,” in Access & Equity in the University, Keren S. Brathwaite, ed. (Toronto: Canadian
Scholar’s Press, 2003) 117-136.
“Democracy and Globalization,” in Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide, Richard Sandbrook , ed. (Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2003) 139-155.
"Nations and Nationalism: The Case of Canada/Quebec," Philip Alperson, ed., Diversity and Community: A Critical
Reader (London: Blackwell, 2002) 182-208.
“Social Cohesion: Philosophical Perspective,” Audrey Kobayashi and Jennifer Clinesmith, eds., SOCO 2002:Proceedilngs,
SSHRC/Social Cohesion Colloquium (Kingston: Queen’s University Press, 2002) 1-10.
"Could Canada Become Bosnia?," Carol Gould and Pasquale Pasquino, eds., Cultural Identity and the Nation-State
(Oxford: Roman and Littlefield, 2001) 31-55. Available from personal website.
"Whose Socialism?, Which Democracy?," Michael Howard, ed., Socialism (Humanity Books, 2001) 263-80.
"Democratic Theory and Racist Ontology,” Social Identities (special issue on democratic theory and racism), Vol. 6, No. 4
(December 2000) 463-82. Available from personal website.
"Positive Action and Democracy,” in Erna Appelt and Monica Jarosch, eds., Combating Racial Discrimination:
Affirmative Action as a Model for Europe (Oxford: Berg 2000) 41-59.
"Group Hatreds and Antioppressive Politics," in Andrew Light and Mechthild Nagel, eds., Race, Class and Community
Identity (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Press, 2000) 182-198.
"Group Hatreds and Democracy," in Daniel Avnon and Avner de Shallit, eds., Liberalism and its Practice (New York:
Routledge, 1999) 125-145.
"Tout le mal vient de l'inégalité,” with Josiane Boulard-Ayoub, introduction to a special issue of Dialogue on equality in
memory of Louise Marcil, Vol. 37 (Fall 1998) 669-76.
"Homo Democraticus: Pour une perspective anti-échangiste," in Robert Damien and André‚ Tosel, dirs., L'Action
Collective: Coordination, Conseil, Planification, Jean Robelin, trans., Annales Littéraires de l'Université de Franche-
Comte, no. 653 (Paris: Diffusion Les Belles Lettres, 1998) 403-421.
"Could Canada turn into Bosnia?," Bulletin of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science and Culture, Kyoritsu
Women's University, No. 4, Special Issue on Aspects of Multiculturalism in Canada and Elsewhere, (1998) 69-76.
“Challenges to Human Rights in the Late 20th
Century,” Science of Mind, no. 37 (November 1998) 59-63.
"The Canada/Quebec Conundrum: A Trinational Perspective," Constitutional Forum, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Summer 1997),
special issue in its Canada's Prospects Series, Janet Ajzenstat and Caroline Bayard, eds., 119-129.
"Critical Review of Russell Hardin, One For All: The Logic of Group Conflict, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.
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27, No. 4 (December 1997) 571-594.
"On Relating Justice and Democracy: A Strategy and an Hypothesis," in Ron Bontekoe and Marietta Stepaniants, eds.,
Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997) 77-91. Reprinted in
Manzoor Ahman and Khalida Ghaus, eds., Pakistan: Prospects and Perspectives (Karachi: Royal Book Company, 1999)
29-44.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds: Questions and Hypotheses,” in Pour un monde responsable et solidaire, Proceedings of
the Alliance for a Responsible and Solidary World Colloquium (Laval, P.Q.: Éditions Montmorency, 1996) 176-183, plus
transcribed discussion.
"The Radical Humanism of Christian Bay," Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Series 6, Vol. 7 (1996) 14-21.
"The Canada/Quebec Conundrum: A Trinational Perspective," in Japanese translation, Ritsumeikan Law Review, 1996, No.
247, 211-246.
“Homo Democraticus: A Counter-Catallactic Perspective,” Theoria , No. 85 (May 1995) 111-125.
"C.B. Macpherson," entry in The Encyclopedia of Democracy, S.M. Lipset, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional
Quarterly Books, 1995), Vol. II, 784-785.
"Socialism," entry in The Encyclopedia of Democracy, S.M, Lipset, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly
Books, 1995), Vol. IV, 1147-1153.
"Post-Hegemonic Marxism," in Diverse Perspectives on Marxist Philosophy: East and West, John Neumaier & Howard
Parsons, eds. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1995) 18-32.
"La Critique du programme de Gotha une fois de plus: hypothèses sur l'égalité et le socialisme," Rodrigue Belanger, ed.,
L'égalitarisme en question (Ville Saint-Laurent, P.Q.: Les Editions Fides, 1994) 197-222.
"Democratic Philosophy," in Le Dialogue Humaniste: Mélange en l'honneur de Venant Cauchy, Yvon Gauthier, ed.
(Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1993) 67-79.
“The World Congress of Philosophy: Moscow: Chaos and Rip Off,” University of Toronto Philosophy Newsletter,
September, 1993.
"Radical Philosophy and the New Social Movements," in Radical Philosophy: Tradition, Counter Tradition, Politics,
Roger Gottlieb, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) 199-220.
"C.B. Macpherson," entry in The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Thinkers, Robert Benewick & Philip Green,
eds., (New York: Routledge, 1992) 141-142.
University Autonomy and Contexts of Democracy," Interchange, special issue on The University and Democracy, Vol. 23,
Nos. 1/2 (1992) 43-50.
"Democracy, Socialism, and the Globe," in On the Track of Reason: Essays in Honor of Kai Nielsen, R. Beehler, et. al,
eds. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992) 75-95).
"Democracy and Marxist Political Culture," in Socialism in Crisis?: Canadian Perspectives, Jos Roberts & Jesse Vorst,
eds., Socialist Studies Annual Vol. 7, (1992) 107-115.
"Sustainable Development and the Ideal of Socialism," in Japanese translation, Shudo Hogaku (Shudo Law Review), Vol.
14 No. 1 (January 1991) 127-146.
"Sustainable Development and the Socialist Ideal," Ritsumeikann Law Review, No. 6 (1991) 111-129.
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"Ragionando di democrazia e socialismo," a sinistra, (April 1991) 19-28.
"Community, Democracy and Socialism," Praxis International, special issue on Contemporary Disputes on Justice and the
Paradoxes: Liberalism, Democracy and Moral Community, Vol. 11, No. 3 (October 1991), 310-326.
"The Socialist Retrieval of Liberal Democracy," International Political Science Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1990) 99-110.
"Democracy and Socialism: Philosophical Aporiae," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1990) 269-289.
"Democrazia e socialismo: problemi di metodo," Critica Marxista, Vol. 27, No. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989) 19-35.
“False Consciousness Revisited,” Socialism in the World (nos. 74/5, 1989) 3 – 12.
"Community, Democracy, and the 6th Thesis on Feuerbach," in Robert Ware & Kai Nielsen, eds., Analyzing Marxism
(Calgary: Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 15, 1989) 205-230. Republished in Chinese
translation in New Discussions of Analysis of Marxism, Robert Ware & Kai Nielsen, eds., (Beijing: Renmin University of
China Press, 2007) 161-183.
Review article of Andrew Levine, The End of the State, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sept. 1989) 467-
76.
"Participacion, parlamentos y partidos," in Rodrigo Alvayay and Carlos Ruiz, eds., Democracia y Participacion (Santiago,
Ediciones Melquiades, 1988) 89-108.
"Marxism and Class Reductionism," in Philosophy and Culture: Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy
(Montreal, Éditions du Beffroi, 1986) 267-87.
"Marxism y Reduccionismo de Clase," Opciones, May-August 1985) 30-56.
"Alternatives to Acquiescence: Comments on Govier," Michael Fox and Leo Groarke, eds., Nuclear War: Philosophical
Perspectives (New York, Peter Lang, 1985) 77-80.
"¨Necesitamos mas, o menos democracia?," Opciones, Numero especial (Agosto 1984) 107-121.
"National Self Determination: Peace Beyond Détente," Dialectics and Humanism, No. 2 (1984) 457-60.
Review Essay of Levine, Liberal Democracy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 1984) 335-57.
Review Essay of books by Horvat, Stojanovi, and Vajda on democracy and socialism, Insurgent Sociologist (Winter-
Spring 1984) 178-83.
"National Self Determination and Internationalism," in Japanese Translation, 1983 Yearbook for Social-Scientific Studies,
No. 7 (1983) 144-149.
“Poland and the Struggle for Socialism in Canada,” Communist Party of Canada Discussion Bulletin, January 1982.
Reprinted in Canadian Dimension (March, 1982, 42-3), and see addendum letter in July-August, 1982.
"Dialectical Contradiction: Some Conjectures," in Erwin Marquit, Philip Moran, Willis Truitt, eds., Dialectical
Contradictions: Contemporary Marxist Discussions (Minneapolis, Marxist Educational Press, 1982) 59-66.
"Democratic Theory and Marxism," in Japanese translation, 1981 Yearbook for Social-Scientific Studies, Vol. 5 (1981199-
229.
"Marxism, Democracy, and the Meaning of Life," Dialectics and Humanism, Vol. 8,, No. 1 (Winter 1981) 91-100.
"Marxism and Epistemological Relativism," coauthored with D. Goldstick, Social Praxis, Vol. 6, Nos. 3-4 (1979 237-253.
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Republished in Greek translation in E.I Bitsakis, Dialectics (Guttenberg 1981) 279-288.
“Le marxisme et les années 1980 : Frank Cunningham interroge C.B. Macpherson et Stanley B. Ryerson, » Bulletin
d’histoire politique, vol. 9, no. 1 (automme 2001) 153-168.
"In Defence of Objectivity," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 4 (June 1980) 417-426.
"Marxism and Rights: The Shibata Thesis," in Japanese translation, 1980 Yearbook for Marxist Studies, Vol. 4 (1980) 134-
140.
"Quebec Self Determination and Canadian Interests," in Philosophers Look at Canadian Confederation, Stanley French,
editor, (Montreal 1979) 97-102.
"Historical Materialism" and "The Fall of Capitalism," in Must We Choose Sides: Christian Commitment for the 80's, H.
Strharsky, editor, (Boston 1979) 43-48, 64-72; modified chapters from Understanding Marxism.
"Inductivism and the Libertarian-Idiographic Tradition," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 8, No. 2 (July
1978) 137-147.
"Kuhn on Scientific Creativity: An Engelsian Critique," Dialectics and Humanism, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer 1978) 74-80
"Activism and Scientism in the Interpretation of Karl Marx's First and Third Theses on Feuerbach," coauthored with D.
Goldstick, Philosophical Forum, Vol. 8, Nos. 2-4 (1978) 269-288.
"Rationalism, Humanism and Tribal Thought," in Essays in Humanistic Anthropology: A Festschrift in Honor of David
Bidney, Bruce T. Grindal, Jon Wagner, Mike Warren, eds., (Washington: University Press of America, 1978) 43-52.
"Pluralism and Class Struggle," Science and Society, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter 1975-1976) 385-416.
"Marxism, Social Science, and Objectivity," in Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Science, William R. Shea, ed., (New York
1976) 127-135.
Review Article of Steven Lukes, Individualism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 2 (October, 1975) 285-293.
"Practice and Some Muddles about the Methodology of Historical Materialism," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3,
No. 2 (December 1973) 235-248.
"The Magic Mountain and the Later Freud," Laurentian University Review, Vol. 3 (February 1969) 32-41.
"Giordano Bruno and Finnegan's Wake," Laurentian University Review, II (June 1968) 12-22.
"More on Understanding in Social Science," Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn 1967) 321-326. Expanded in German
translation, Hans Albert, ed., Theorie und Realität (Tubingen 1972) 227-237.
Popular-level Articles/Interviews/Other
“What Rob Ford can teach us about populism in Canada & some strategies to counter it,” web publication of Spacing
Magazine, July 24, 2014, www.spacing.ca/national/2014/07/24/.
“The Annex and the ARA,” historical sketch for the Annex Residents’ Association Website, November, 2011.
“Governance in Toronto: Issues and Questions,” with Richard Stren et. al., Cities Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto
Election 2010 series, Discussion Paper 1, June 2010.
“Inequality” Globe and Mail, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/ RTGAM.20080426.wincomes26/
BNStory/census2006.
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“Rae Review Flaw,” with Duncan Cameron, Toronto Star, February 21, 2005, A17, reprinted, CAUT Bulletin, March
2005, A3.
“Communicating With World Scholars: Tribute to Mitsuo Okamoto,” Shudo Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 2 (February 2005),
xx-xii.
“Income Contingent Loan Repayment,” Discussant’s comments, conference on Taking Public Universities Seriously,
Toronto, University of Toronto, December 3-4, 2004, web publication: http:// www.utoronto.ca/ president/ 04conference
(then: agenda, session 6, discussants).
“Crawford Brough Macpherson,” University of Toronto Faculty Association Newsletter, No. 2, March 17, 2004, p. 2.
“Ties that Bind” (on the Colleges at the University of Toronto) with Joseph Boyle, University of Toronto Bulletin, October
2, 2001, 16.
"Challenges to Human Rights in the Late 20th Century," Seishin-Kagaku (The Science of Mind), No. 37 (November, 1998)
59-64.
"Democratic Theory and Racism," Radical Philosophy Newsletter, No. 46 (March 1998) 8.
"In Memoriam: Harold Johnson," obituary, Socialist Studies Bulletin No. 42 (October-December, 1995) 3.
"Philosophy: Ontario Academic Course," a Curriculum Guideline for a secondary school course co-authored with a team of
the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training (Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario, 1994).
"Philosophy in Canada," Interview, in Italian translation, Ka-Kanata: Pluralismo Filosofico Vol. 2, Rita Melillo, ed. (S.
Michele di Serino: Pro Press Editrice, 1993) 73-80.
"The World Congress of Philosophy: Moscow," University of Toronto Philosophy Newsletter, September 1993; reprinted
in Radical Philosophy Newsletter, No. 33 (Winter 1993) 6-7.
"Bob Rae and the Philosophers," The Globe & Mail, May 20, 1993.
"Democracy and Three-Nation Asymmetry," Canadian Forum, Vol. 71, No. 815 (December 1992) 18-19.
"A New Direction in Evaluation: Alternatives to Grades," coauthored with Derek Fazakas, Seth Klein, and Carsey Yee,
University of Toronto Bulletin, March 26, 1990.
"Crawford Brough Macpherson's Legacy," The Financial Post, July 27, 1987.
"Community Relations and University Renewal," University of Toronto Bulletin, May 4, 1987.
"Marxism in the 80's" Interviews with C.B. Macpherson and Stanley Ryerson, Socialist Studies Annual, Vol. 1 (1984) 7-
18. Reproduced in French translation in Bulletin d’histoire politique, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Automne 2000) 153-68. Macpherson
portion reproduced in Cunningham, The Real World of Democracy Revisited (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press,
1994), essay 1, appendix.
"The Role of the Radical Philosopher in Canada," Socialist Studies Bulletin No. 1 (May, 1979) 15-19.
"Marxism and the State," Revolutionary World, Vol. 6 (1974) 21-30.
Unpublished Papers
“Philosophy in Ontario Secondary Schools,” 2009 & revised, 2012.
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“Democracy and Popular Rule in the Constitutional Debate,” 1992.
“Brief to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada” with Lorenne Clark, Philip Resnick, and Mel
Watkins, 1982.
“Détente and Canadian Foreign Policy,” 1976.
PRESENTED PAPERS/INVITED LECTURES
“Urban Citizenship.” Guest Lecture, Humanities, Douglas College, March 29, 2017.
“C.B. Macpherson and Canadian Political Economy,” Guest Lecture, Department. of Political Science, University of
Victoria, February 2, 2017.
Commentary on Lisa Freeman, “Re-Defining the Public in Public Libraries,” Urban Studies Forum, Simon Fraser
University, November 24, 2016.
“Urban Philosophers and Right-Wing Populism,” Philosophy and the City Conference, University of San Francisco,
November 17, 2016. (Available in electronic form on request.)
“Thomas More’s Utopia 500 Year Later,” Participating moderator, Panel on Utopianism, Urban Studies and Institute for
Humanities, Simon Fraser University, October 27, 2016.
“Walter Benjamin’s Paris Arcades and Public Space,” invited lecture, Douglas College, New Westminster B.C. Sept. 30,
2016.
“Racism and the Crisis of Western Thought,” Panel on Racism and Philosophy, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto,
January 15, 2016. . (Available in electronic form on request.)
“Racism and Philosophy,” Philosophy Department, Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C., April 10, 2015.
“Urban Aboriginal Sovereignty and Homefulness,” Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C., March 20, 2015.
“Urban Environmentalism,” guest lecture, Philosophy Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., March 3, 2015.
“Equality, Social Democracy, and the NDP,” guest lecture, Political Science Department, University of Victoria, Victoria,
B.C., March 3, 2015.
“Can Philosophy Save Our Cities and the World?” Philosophy Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
February 27, 2015.
“Toronto’s 2014 Elections: End of the Ford Era?” guest lectures, Urban Studies, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, March 5, 2015 & Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University, February 16, 2015.
“Richard Sandbrook’s Reinventing the Left: Comments,” Political Science Development Seminar, University of Toronto,
November 14, 2014.
“Ebenezer Howard, Jane Jacobs, and Urban Environmentalism,” guest lecture, Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C.,
September 16, 2014.
“The Political Theory of C.B. Macpherson,” Society for Socialist Studies panel on The Thought of C.B. Macpherson in
Today’s World, Congress of the Federation of Humanities & Social Sciences, Brock University, May 28, 2014.
“Walter Benjamin’s Paris Arcades Project and Public Space,” Great Urban Thinker’s Webcast Series, Urban Studies
Program, Simon Fraser University, March 25, 2014.
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“The Legacy of C.B. Macpherson,” Panel, Institute for Humanities and Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser
University, March 1, 2014.
"Urban Citizenship," guest lecture, Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, January 30, 2014.
"Populism in Toronto Politics: the Rob Ford Phenomenon," guest lecture, Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser
University, February 3, 2014.
"Les passages de Paris et la philosophie de la ville de Walter Benjamin," l’Université de Laval, Faculté de Philosophie,
Novembre 27, 2013. [Available in written form.]
"Citoyenetté Urbaine," l’Université de Laval, Faculté de Philosophie, Novembre 28, 2013. [Available in written form.]
“C.B. Macpherson’s Political Theory” guest lecture, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin,
November 4, 2013.
“The Arcades of Paris and Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Cities,” Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto,
October 4, 2013.
“The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson,” Department of Political Science Panel on Macpherson, University of
Toronto, Toronto, September 13, 2013.
“The Arcades of Paris and Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Cities,” University of Birmingham Institute of Art and
Design, Birmingham, May 16, 2013.
“Temporal Accessibility,” Workshop on Spatial Accessibility , University of Montreal, May 4, 2013.
“Urban Citizenship,” Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C., March 20, 2013.
“Governance in Toronto,” guest lecture, Urban Studies Department, Simon Fraser University, March 4, 2013.
“Voting for Inequality,” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Workshop on Tackling Inequality, Vancouver, March 1,
2013.,
“Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Cities,” Humanities Institute, Simon Fraser University, February 12, 2013.
Discussant, with David Miller, “Fundamentals of a Green Economy,” Hart House Social Justice lecture series, University
of Toronto, January 15, 2013.
“Benjamin’s Arcades Revisited,” Cities Centre, University of Toronto, December 6, 2012.
“Individuality and Utopianism,” guest lecture, OISE, University of Toronto, November 28, 2012.
“The City Under Siege,” University-in-Community Lecture Series, Innis College, University of Toronto, June 6, 2012.
“Possessive Individualism and Intellectual Property,” conference on Property, Dominium and Self-Ownership, University
of London, May 14-15, 2012.
“Ask a Philosopher,” Regent Park Centre of Learning Ask a Professor series, Toronto, March 29, 2012.
“Gentrification in Toronto,” West End Residents’ Association, Toronto, January 18, 2012,
“Democracy and the Media,” guest lecture St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, November 2011.
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“’Democracy,’ ‘Trust,’ ‘Social Cohesion’,” Opening talk, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC) Think Tank on
Democracy, Trust,” and Social Cohesion, Vancouver, November 4, 2011.
“The ARA Bloor Corridor Visioning Study: Lessons,” Centre for City Ecology Forum, Toronto, September 17, 2011.
“Ethics and the Public Service,” Early Learning and Child Development Planning Day workshop, Ontario Public Service,
Toronto, June 20, 2011.
“Urban Citizenship,” conference on Spaciality and Justice, University of Montréal, May 5-7, 2011.
“The University Public,” symposium on Academic Callings, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, March 24, 2011.
"Canadian Democracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," University in the Community, Toronto, March 23, 2011.
"Urban Philosophy: Ruminations," Humanities Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 4, 2011.
"Urban Aboriginal Sovereignty and Homefulness," Humanities Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, February
28, 2011.
“Citizenship and the City,” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, January 24, 2011.
“Globalization and Developmental Democracy,” Department of Philosophy and Peace and Conflict Studies, University of
Utah, November 5, 2010.
“The City, the University, and Multiculturalism,” The University and the City Conference, Goethe University, Frankfurt,
October 22, 2010.
“Governance and the Toronto Elections,” Cities Centre and the Canadian Urban Institute Forum, September 9, 2010.
Comment on Jai Sen, “Interrogating the Civil,” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, June 16, 2010.
“Citizenship and the City,” conference on Cosmopolis/Cosmopolitics: Humanities and Citizenship After Neo-Liberalism.
Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, May 5-8, 2010.
“Teaching Political Philosophy,” 10th
Annual Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association Conference, Toronto, April 30,
2010.
“Contextualizing Urban Justice,” Urban Affairs Association, Honolulu, March 12, 2010.
“Aboriginal Sovereignty and Homefulness,” Senior Scholars College Seminar, University of Toronto, February 23, 2010.
“Prorogation and Canadian Parliamentarianism,” Toronto Dollars Supper Club Series, Toronto, February 22, 2010.
“Inequality,” Beyond Intellectual Discovery, a student-organized discussion series, University of Toronto, February 10,
2010.
“Developmental Democracy and Globalization,” Philosophers for Peace, University of Toronto, November 10, 2009.
“The Society for Socialist Studies: The Early Years,” Society for Socialist Studies Panel on the history of the Society and
its prospects, Annual Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 29, 2009.
“The Real World of Democracy and Rights,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 26,
2009. [Précis available in written form.]
“Comment” on David Campbell, “Whose Afraid of the Tyranny of the Majority,” Canadian Philosophical Association,
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Carleton University, Ottawa, May 25, 2009.
“The Gruing of Cities: Problems of Urban Environmentalism,” 9th
Annual Conference of the Ontario Philosophy Teachers
Association, Toronto, May 1, 2009.
“Contextualizing Urban Justice,” Conference in Honour of Veit Bader,” University of Amsterdam, March 19, 2009. [Précis
available in written form.]
“Triangulating Utopia,” conference on The City in Question, University of Toronto, March 12, 2009.
“Democracy,” Beyond Intellectual Discovery, a student-organized discussion series, University College, University of
Toronto, January 15, 2009.
“Urban Public Spaces,” Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory, York University, Toronto, October 29, 2008.
“Marxism,” guest lecture, Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, October
8, 2008.
“Collective Responsibility,” conference on Responsibility in honour of Thomas Langan, St. Michael’s College, Toronto,
September 27, 2008.
Urban Philosophy: A Pragmatic Perspective,” World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, August 3, 2008.
“What is to be Thought?: Contemporary Challenges to Socialist Philosophers,” World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul,
August 3, 2008.
“C.B. Macpherson and Consumerist Ideology,” Guest Lecture, Department of Philosophy. York University, July 16, 2008.
“Philosophy in the Ontario Secondary Schools,” Canadian Philosophical Association workshop on pre-university
philosophy, Vancouver, June 5, 2008.
“Globalization and the Fall,” Society for Socialist Studies panel on Socialism and Globalization, Vancouver, June 4, 2008.
“The University Public and its Enemies,” Canadian Sociological Association, Vancouver, June 3, 2008.
“The ‘Gruing’ of Cities,” Canadian Philosophical Association, June 3, 2008.
“Triangulating Utopia: Benjamin, Lefebvre, & Tafuri,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Vancouver, June 2, 2008.
“C.B. Macpherson on Consumerism,” guest lecture, Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education, Toronto, May 14, 2008.
“Kant, Hegel, Marx, and the Twilight of Modern Philosophy,” guest lecture, Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, January 22, 2008.
“On the Public Realm,” comments on David Crombie, ‘Defending the Public Realm’,” Canadian Urban Institute panel,
Toronto, December 4, 2007.
“Urban Philosophy: An Approach,” workshop on Political Philosophy and the Cities, l’Atalier de philosophie politique de
Montréal, Université de Montréal, November 30, 2007.
“Enlightenment Secularism,” Political Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, Toronto, November 9, 2007.
“Cities: A Philosophical Approach,” Later Life Learning, Innis College, University of Toronto, October 4, 2007.
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“C.B. Macpherson’s Real World of Democracy in the Age of Globalization,” Institute for Human Studies, Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto, June 22, 2007.
“Urban Philosophy,” Department of Philosophy, Nihon University, Tokyo, June 18, 2007.
“Class and Democracy in American Politics,” Department of Philosophy Symposium, Nihon University, Tokyo, June 16,
2007.
“Nationalism and Multiculturalism: A Strange Brew,” Workshop on Social Justice and Multiculturalism, Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto, June 13, 2007. . (Available in electronic form on request.)
“The Global Public and its Problems,” Department of Philosophy, Nihon University, Tokyo, June 4, 2007.
“Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Canada,” guest lecture, Dept. of Sociology, University of Kyoto, May 28, 2007.
“Urban Philosophy,” Faculty of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto May 24, 2007.
“Neighbourhoods and Cities,” Huron-Essex Residents Association, Toronto, January 23, 2007.
“Urban Philosophy,” Cities Centre Symposium Series, University of Toronto, Dec. 11, 2006.
“Town and Country Revisited,” 13th
A.D. Latornell Conservation Symposium, Alliston, On., November 16, 2006.
“Philosophy and the Cities,” Environmental Ethics and Policy Lecture Series, University of Washington, Seattle, June 23,
2006.
“The Gruing of Cities,” Natural Cities Conference, University of Toronto, May 31, 2006.
“Twilight of the Modern Princes,” conference on Dehegemonization: the U.S. and Transnational Democracy, Center for
Global Studies and Center for Ethics, George Mason University, Arlington Virginia, April 5, 2006.
Philosophy and the Cities,” Keynote Address, Prairie Provinces Undergraduate Philosophy Society Annual Conference,
Edmonton, Alberta , January 28, 2006.
“Workshop on Democracy,” Northumberland Learning Connection,” Cobourg, Ontario, Sept. 30, 2005.
“Democracy: Meaning, Value, Contestations,” Northumberland Learning Connection,” Cobourg, Ontario, Sept. 29, 2005.
“The ABC’s of Political Philosophy,”5th
Annual Ontario Philosophy Teachers Conference, Toronto, May 6, 2005.
“Teaching, Research and the Idea of a University,” Keynote Address, SAC/APUS Undergraduate Teaching Awards 2004-
05 Ceremony, University of Toronto, April 19, 2005.
“The Global Public and its Problems,” conference on Globalization and Social Justice, Washington University and St.
Louis University, St. Louis, April 1-2. 2005.
“Income Contingent Loan Repayment,” Discussant’s comments, conference on Taking Public Universities Seriously,
Toronto, University of Toronto, December 3-4, 2004.
“The Conflicting Truths of Religion and Democracy,” Keynote Address, Twenty-First International Social Philosophy
Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, July 30, 2004.
“Is Conflict ‘Democracy’s Lifeblood’?,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Workshop on Pluralism and Conflict,
Winnipeg, May 29-30, 2004.
“Western and Non-Western Philosophy: Teaching the Canon,” Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association, May 14, 2004.
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“Group Hatreds: Philosophical Perspectives,” Conflict Studies, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, April 16, 2004.
“What is a Theory of Democracy Good For?,” Department of Philosophy, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, April
15, 2004.
“Universities and Social Justice,” Keynote Address, conference on Institutions and Social Justice, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, March 19-20, 2004.
“Democratic Theories and Democratic Practices,” Book Launch of Serbian Translation of Theories of Democracy,
Belgrade International Book Fair, October 25, 2003.
“Of What Use is a Theory of Democracy?,” Department of Political Science, University of Belgrade, October 27, 2003.
“Must a Market Economy Yield a Market Society?,” Faculty of Law, Novi Sad University, Novi Sad, Serbia/Montenegro,
October 27, 2003.
“John Keane’s ‘Cosmocracy,’” CSPT, Toronto, October 3, 2003.
“The Two Faces of Sovereignty and Aspirations for Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada,” World Congress of
Philosophy, Istanbul, August 16, 2003.
“Does a Market Economy Necessitate a Market Society,” World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, August 11, 2003.
“Does a Market Economy Necessitate a Market Society,” Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia,
March 21, 2003.
“Socialism and Democracy,” Society for Socialist Studies Panel, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Halifax, June 2, 2003.
“The Terrorism of Oppression and the Oppression of Terrorism,” Radical Philosophy Association, Canadian Philosophical
Association meetings, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Halifax, May 31, 2003.
“Globalization and Democracy,” Later Life Learning Series on Globalization, University of Toronto, January 13, 2003
“Does a Market Economy Necessitate a Market Society?,” Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American
Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 29, 2002.
“The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson and Our Times,” University of Toronto, Senior Alumni Lecture Series,
October 2, 2002.
“Market Economies and Market Societies,” Principles of Justice: A Symposium in Honour of
Alistair Macleod, Queen’s University, September 28, 2002.
“Citizenship and Democracy,” Tzedek Hillel, Toronto, March 25, 2002.
“Teaching Political Philosophy in Secondary Schools” Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation workshop, Toronto,
August 22, 2001.
“Sovereignty, Peoplehood, and Property: Contributions to a Critical Dialogue,” Canadian Philosophical Association
conference on Philosophy and Aboriginal Rights, Winnipeg June 22-5, 2001.
“Aboriginal Self-Determination and Canadian Philosophy,” Round Table, Canadian Philosophical Association conference
on Philosophy and Aboriginal Rights, Winnipeg June 22-5, 2001.
“Teaching Environmental Philosophy in Secondary Schools,” Ontario Philosophy Teachers Conference, Toronto May 4,
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2001
"Social Cohesion and the Philosophers," keynote address, SSHRCC conference on Social Cohesion, Toronto, October 27,
2000, available on the web at http://geog.queensu/soco/2000/keynote.htm.
“Why the Poor Don't Soak the Rich: Comments on Shapiro," Political Theory Workshop, Toronto, December 28, 2000.
“Democratic Theory and Racism,” (read in absentia), American Philosophical Association, December 27, 1999. .
(Available in electronic form on request.)
"Racism and Civic Mythologies," symposium on Contexts for Diversity: Europe and North America, Dialogues on
Diversity, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 29, 1999.
"The Environment and the Meaning of Life," Later Life Learning 1999 Lecture Series, Innis College, University of
Toronto, September 20, 1999.
"Democracy and Racist Ontology," Department of Philosophy, University of Rome (I), June 30, 1999.
"Racism and Democracy," Department of Philosophy, University of Naples (Frederico II), June 17, 1999.
"National Philosophies?," Symposium on La pensée philosophique d'expression française au Canada, Canadian
Philosophical Association Meetings, Sherbrooke, June 5, 1999.
"Democracy and Trust: Lockean Majoritarianism Revisited," Panel on Democracy and Trust, Canadian Philosophical
Association Meetings, Sherbrooke, June 6, 1999. . (Available in electronic form on request.)
"The Necessity and the Impossibility of Pluralism," Toronto-Berlin Workshop on Pluralism, University of Toronto, May
14-15, 1999.
"Democratie, ideologie et utopie: commentaire d'une texte de Joycelyne Couture," Societé de philosophie du Québec,
Ottawa, May 11, 1999.
“Philosophy and Racism," University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, April 26, 1999.
"Philosophy and Racism," Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, March 1, 1999.
"Philosophy in Ontario Secondary Schools," Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, March 1, 1999.
"Philosophy and Human Rights," Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Secondary School, Missisauga, February 9, 1998.
"Could Canada turn into Bosnia?," Departments of Religion and Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario,
October 1, 1998. [Available in written form.]
"Democracy and Positive Action," conference: "Affirmative Action as a Model for Europe?," Department of Political
Science, University of Innsbruck and Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General V, Innsbruck,
September 17-18, 1998.
"Reconstructing an Egalitarian Imaginary," 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 14, 1998.
"Feasible Justice and the Global Bully Boys," 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 13, 1998.
"Democracy and the Education of the Educators," 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 12, 1998.
"The Helices of Democracy and Justice," 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 12, 1998.
"Could Canada Turn into Bosnia?/La bosnification du Canada: est-elle possible?," Presidential Address, Canadian
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Philosophical Association, Ottawa, May 28, 1998, available on the web at www.acpcpa, then English (or French),
Publications, Presidential Addresses, Cunningham 1998. (Also available in electronic form on request.)
"Preparing for the Job Market," Organizer and Presenter, Canadian Philosophical Association Symposium, May 29, 1998.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Department of Philosophy and Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta, April 3, 1998.
"Philosophy and Group Hatreds: Some Hypotheses," Departments of Philosophy and Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton
University, Ottawa, February 6, 1998.
"Democratic Theory and Racism," American Philosophical Association, Radical Philosophy Association Panel,
Philadelphia, December 28, 1997 (read in absentia).
"Consociational Democracy: Comments on Jos de Beus," Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science Colloquium on
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Liberal Democracy, Amsterdam, November 26-28, 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Karl Polanyi Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, October 30, 1997.
"Prospects for Socialism and Social Democracy after the Collapse," Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences, Karachi, September
29, 1997.
"Fragile Democracy," University of Karachi, Department of Philosophy, September 29, 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Inaugural Lecture of the Shaukat Suraiyla Sattar Parekh Memorial Lectures, Karachi,
September 27, 1997.
"Individualist and Communitarian Approaches to the 'National Question,' in Canada," British Hills, Japanese Association
for Canadian Studies Annual Conference, September 20, 1997.
"Could Canada Become Bosnia?," Meiji University (Tokyo), Canadian Studies Program, September 18, 1997. The
abstract for this paper is published in "Reports of Serial Lectures on Canadian Studies," Meiji University Center for
International Programs (Tokyo 1997) 69-72.
"Challenges to Human Rights in the Late 20th Century," Nihon University (Tokyo), Department of Philosophy, September
16, 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), Faculty of Law, September 6, 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Third World Congress on Violence, Dublin, August 17, 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Columbia University Seminars, Columbia University, New York, March 27, 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds: Structural Parameters," Panel in honour of Milton Fisk (the "Fisk Fest"), Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 7, 1997.
"Combating Violence and Hatred," Panel, Calgary City Teachers' Convention, Calgary, February 14, 1997.
"Teaching Philosophy in the Schools," Calgary City Teachers' Convention, Calgary, February 13, 1997. (This lecture was
followed by a workshop on teaching philosophy in secondary schools.)
"Group Hatreds and Democratic Prospects," Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, February 11. 1997.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," The Impact of Ideas on 20th Century History: A Conference in Honour of Shlomo
Avineri, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, December 16-18, 1996.
"National Identification and Socialist Commitment," Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, Mass., December 4-8,
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1996.
"Post Scholastic Marxism," Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, Mass., December 4-8, 1996.
"Democracy and Group Hatreds," Radical Philosophy Association, Purdue University, West Layfayette, Indiana,
November 12-17, 1996.
"Radical Political Philosophy and NAFTA," Radical Philosophy Association, Purdue University, West Layfayette, Indiana,
November 12-17, 1996.
"Group Hatreds," Colloque international: Démocratie, Pluralism et Citoyenneté, Département de Philosophie, Université de
Montréal & Université nationale de Côte d’Ivoire, Montreal, November 1-4, 1996.
"La haine entre les groupes: questions et hypothèses," Colloque international de l'Alliance pour un monde responsable et
solidaire," Laval, P.Q., June 6-10, 1996.
"L'avenir constitutionnel du Canada," Co-organizer and participating chair, Canadian Philosophical Association, St.
Catherines, June 1, 1996.
"Group Hatreds," Society for Socialist Studies, St. Catherines, June 3, 1996.
"L'égalitarisme subtil et engagé de Louise Marcil," Canadian Philosophical Association, St. Catherines, May 29, 1996.
“Global Sustainability: A Modest Proposal," Panel on Justice and Global Sustainability, Faculty of Environmental Studies,
York University, March 25, 1996.
"The Canada/Quebec Conundrum: A Trinational Perspective," public lecture cosponsored by PLURALT and the
Departments of Philosophy, French, and Religion, McMaster University, Hamilton, January 22, 1996.
"Second Nation Conflict and the First Nations," IPPNO session on Nationalism, American Philosophical Association, New
York, December 12, 1995.
"On Relating Justice and Democracy," Ontario Philosophical Society Annual Conference, University of Windsor, Windsor,
October 28, 1995.
"The Teachability of Philosophy in High School," Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton,
October 13, 1995.
"The Philosopher as Citizen," Keynote Panel, Atlantic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, University of New
Brunswick, October 14, 1995.
"The Paris Manuscripts of Karl Marx Revisited," guest lecture, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax,
October 16, 1995.
"The Academic Administrator's Responsibility to Students," animation of discussion, Provost's Orientation for Academic
Administrators, October 3, 1995.
"The Ethics of the Market System," Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, June 6, 1995.
"L'égalitarisme en question," Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, June 6, 1995.
"Socialism and Democracy," Society for Socialist Studies, Montreal, June 5, 1995.
"Philosophy in the Ontario Secondary Schools," Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, June 6, 1995.
"Philosophy in the Ontario Secondary Schools," Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, January 24, 1995.
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"On Relating Justice and Democracy: A Strategy and an Hypothesis," Seventh East-West Philosophers' Conference,
University of Hawaii, January 8-20, 1995.
"The Campaign for Philosophy in the Ontario High Schools," American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 29,
1994.
"On Justice and Democracy," Institut für Philosophie, Universitie der Wien, Vienna, October 24, 1994.
"Homo Democraticus: une perspective contre catallactique," Colloque, L'Action Collective: Coordination, Conseil,
Plannification, Université de Franche-Comte, Besaçnon, October 20-22, 1994.
Lectures on the following topics were given in the Institute of Philosophy, National Center for Social and Human Sciences
of Vietnam, in Hanoi between September 30 and October 4, 1994: "Socialism and Social Democracy after the Collapse,"
"Philosophy in Canada," "Democracy, Markets, and Socialism," "Feminist Philosophy," "Environmental Philosophy."
"The Uneasy Relation of Ethics and Politics in the Situation of Canada's Native Peoples," Sapporo, Japanese Association
for Canadian Studies, September 27, 1994.
"The Canadian Political Landscape: A Trinational Perspective," Chiba University, September 21, 1994.
"Prospects for Socialism after 1989," Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), September 13, 1994.
"The Canadian Political Landscape: A Trinational Perspective," Kyoritsu University (Tokyo), September 20, 1994.
"Rights and Education," Panel, IDRC-OISE Summer Institute on Learning and Governance, Geneva Park, Lake
Couchiching, Ontario, July 23, 1994.
"Individuals and Communities," public lecture, IDRC-OISE Summer Institute on Learning and Governance, Toronto, July
14, 1994.
"The Real World of Democracy Revisited," Panel on this book, Radical Philososophy Association, American Philosophical
Association meetings, Los Angeles, April 1, 1994.
"Diversity in the Classroom," University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science Panel on Teaching in a Research
University, March 25, 1994.
"Macpherson on Markets and Socialism," 19th World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, August 25, 1993.
"On Bolshevism and Social Democracy," contribution to a Roundtable on The Future of Democratic Socialism, 19th World
Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, August 25, 1993.
"Post-Hegemonic Marxism," 19th World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, August 22, 1993.
"Philosophy Curriculum Development and Hypermetropia," Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston,
May 14, 1993.
"Political Philosophy and its Discontents," Conference on Challenges to Democracy: Rethinking Political Philosophy,
University of Guelph, Guelph, May 7-9, 1993.
"NAFTA and Canada, Panel on Labour's Response to NAFTA, 11th Annual Socialist Scholars Conference, New York,
April 9-11, 1993.
"Ollman's Dialectical Investigations," Symposium, 11th Annual Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 9-11,
1993.
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Resource Person and Discussion Initiator, Workshop on Democracy, Political Action Conference of the Canadian Labour
Congress, Ottawa, January 28-9, 1993.
Commentator and Chair, Radical Philosophy Association panel, "Critical Perspectives on Liberal Political Theory,"
American Philosophical Association, Washington, December 28, 1992.
"Philosophy in Ontario Secondary Schools," Student Philosophy Club, University of Toronto, November 17, 1992.
"The Critique of the Gotha Programme Again: On the Relation between Equality and Socialism," 2nd Interntational
Conference of Rethining Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 14, 1992.
"The Real World of Democracy Revisited," Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, November 5,
1992.
"On Empire and Democracy," comment on V. di Norcia, IInd World Congress on Violence and Human Coexistence,
Montreal, July 17, 1992.
"Fragile Democracy/ies and the 'New World Order,'" in the panel, Liberation Stuggles and World Peace, IInd World
Congress on Violence and Human Coexistence, Montreal, July 15, 1992.
"Le Mariage de Macpherson et Gramsci," (Contribution to a Roundtable Discussion of Teoria Della Democrazia e
Socialismo), Instituo Gramsci and Centro Culturale Canadese, Rome, June 19, 1992.
"The Constitutional Debates: Popular Sector Organizations and the Left Academics," Society for Socialist Studies Annual
Meetings, Charlottetown, May 29, 1992.
"Narveson on the Ideology of Liberal Democracy," Canadian Philosophical Association, Charlottetown, May 26, 1992.
"Philosophy in a New World Order," Philosophy Course Union, University of Toronto, March 26, 1992.
"Macpheson's Real World of Democracy Revisited," Departments of Philosophy and Sociology, Rice University, Houston,
February 6, 1992.
"Macpheson's Real World of Democracy Revisited," The Karl Polanyi Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, February
2, 1992.
"Group Rights," Roundtable, York University: Glendon College, Toronto, February 1, 1992.
"Democratic-Socialist Continua: Good and Bad," Midwest Radical Scholars & Activists Conference, Loyola University,
Chicago, November 10, 1991.
"The University and Democracy: Concepts and Prescriptions," Conference on The University and Democracy, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, October 19, 1991.
"Democracy: More or Less," Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Havana and Cuban Society of Reserachers
in Philosophy, 3rd Annual Conference of Cuban and American Philosophers, Havana, June 7, 1991.
"The Views of C.B. Macpherson in the Post-1989 World," Latin American Institute of Alternative Legal Services (ILSA),
Bogota, May 30, 1991.
"Historical Models of Democracy," Latin American Institute of Alternative Legal Services (ILSA), conference on
Democracy and the Rule of Law in Conflict-Torn Societies, Cartegena, May 28, 1991.
"Democracy, Socialism, and Sustainable Development," Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, May 16, 1991.
"Has Philosophy a Use?," Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, PRC, May 8, 1991.
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"Democratic-Socialist Continua: Good and Bad," Budapest, Roundtable of Critical Journals, Gyorgy Lukacs Foundation
and Eszmelet, April 11, 1991.
"Democratic-Socialist Continua," University. of Texas: Austin, Centre for Soviet & Eastern European Studies, February
21, 1991.
"Teaching in a Research University," Panel, Faculty of Arts and Science Forum, University of Toronto, February 1, 1991.
"Prospects for Democratic Socialism: Views from Toronto and Amsterdam," with Veit Bader, University of Toronto
Philosophy Forum, Toronto, January 9, 1991.
"Democracy and Socialism: Philosophical Aporiae," Invited Paper, American Philosophical Association, Boston,
December 29, 1990.
"Democracy and Socialism: Philosophical Aporiae," Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences," University of Essex, Coldchester, December 12, 1990.
"Sustainable Development and the Socialist Ideal," Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
December 6, 1990.
Sustainable Development and the Socialist Ideal," Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima, November 27 1990.
"Democracy, Socialism and the Globe," The 10th Annual Yoke International Symposium, Yokohama, November 24, 1990.
(Available in electronic form on request.)
Democracy and Nationalism in Post-Communism," Yokohama International Symposium on A Changing World and
Today's Democracies, Yokohama, November 23, 1990.
"Sustainable Development and the Socialist Ideal," Ritsumeikan University, on the 90th anniversary of its Law School,
Kyoto, November 12, 1990.
"Democratie et socialisme: égard global," Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: Philosophie politique, economique
et sociale, Paris, October 27, 1990.
"Understanding Democracy," Science for Peace Superordinate Project, University of Toronto, July 6, 1990.
"Democratic Socialism in Canada: What's Left?," NDP Trinity-Spadina Forum, Toronto, July 5, 1990.
"Democracy and Marxist Political Culture," Bulgarian Institute of Philosophy, Varna School, Varna, Bulgaria, June 21,
1990.
"Socialist Theory and Eastern Europe," Society for Socialist Studies Roundtable, Victoria, B.C., May 26, 1990.
"La classification jaggarienne: une défense," Canadian Philosophical Association, Victoria, B.C., May 26, 1990.
"Property and the Concept of Self: Comment on Kernohan," Canadian Philosophical Association, Victoria, B.C., May 26,
1990.
"Marxism After the Decline of the Russian Empire," Radical Philosophy Roundtable, Canadian Philosophical Association,
Victoria, B.C., May 23, 1990.
"Democracy: What? Why?," Free School, University of Toronto, Toronto, April 5, 1990.
"Rethinking Socialism," Socialist Seminar, Carleton University, Ottawa, March 29, 1990.
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"Democracy, Socialism and Philosophical Foundations," Karl Polanyi Centre, Concordia University, Montreal, March 19,
1990.
"Foundationalism, Democracy and Socialism," First Annual Conference of Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, Mass., Nov. 30-
Dec. 3, 1989.
Participant, "Roundtable on Socialism and Democracy," Cavtat, Yugoslavia, October 19-22, 1989.
"Democracy and Its Future," Forum on Future Histories, Science for Peace, Toronto, November 10-11, 1989.
"Socialist Theory and Democratic Practice," Berlin, Otto Suhr Institüt (Department of Political Science), Free University of
Berlin, April 26, 1989.
"Community, Democracy and Socialism," Amsterdam, Department of Political Science and CEDLA, University of
Amsterdam, April 21, 1989.
"Democracy and the Practice of Philosophy," Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, April 20,
1989.
"Le terrain politique au Canada et une theorie du socialisme démocratique," Turin, Centro Piero Gobetti, March 20, 1989.
"Le terrain politique au Canada et une theorie du socialisme démocratique," Milan, Centro di Iniziativa Politica e Culturale
(CIPEC), March 17, 1989.
"Community, Democracy, and Socialism," Naples, Department of Philosophy, University of Naples, March 9, 1989.
"Community, Democracy, and Socialism," Rome, Institutio Gramsci, Facolta Teologica Valdese, Centro di Iniziativa
Politica e Culturale (CIPEC), March 7, 1989.
"Reply to McBride,” APA Western Division Meetings, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1989 (read in absentia)..
"Community, Democracy, and Socialism," A.E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change and
Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 9, 1988.
"Community, Democracy, and Socialism," Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, December 8, 1988.
"Community, Tradition, and the 6th Thesis on Feuerbach," Department of Philosophy," Queen's University, Kingston,
December 1, 1988.
"Community, Democracy, and Socialism," Interdisciplinary Socialist Research Circle, West Berlin, October 31, 1988.
"Democratic Theory and Socialism," Institute of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, October 24, 1988.
"Western Approaches to Socialism and Democracy," Student Marxist Study Group, University of Budapest, Budapest,
October 26, 1988.
"False Consciousness Revisited," International Congress on Socialism in the World, Cavtat, Yugoslavia, October 20, 1988.
"Community, Tradition, and the 6th Thesis on Feuerbach," World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, Aug. 24, 1988.
"On `Civilization'," World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, August 22, 1988.
"The Gramscianism of C.B. Macpherson," Canadian Political Science Association meetings, Windsor, June 9, 1988.
"Response to My Miserable Critics," Canadian Philosophical Association, Windsor, May 31, 1988.
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"Socialism and Democracy," Department of Philosophy, Kalamazoo College, May 3, 1988.
"Radical Philosophy and the New Social Movements," Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 9, l988.
"Democratic Socialism: Theory and Practice," Marxist Institute, Toronto, February 11, l988.
"The Philosophy of the Practice of Democratic Socialism," Trent University, Political Studies Speakers Series, January 27,
l988.
"On C.B. Macpherson," Graduate Political Science Union, University of Toronto, November 4, 1987.
"Philosophy and the Argument for Democratic Socialism," Scarborough Philosophy Club, October 16, l987.
"The Constitutional Debate and the Silence of the Left," Marxist Institute, Toronto, June 19, 1987.
"Parties, Parliaments, and Political Participation," Academy of Christian Humanism conference on "Social Democracy and
Participation," Santiago, December 2-4, l986.
"On Justifying Democracy," University of Chile at Santiago, December 4, 1986.
"Socialists and Academic Freedom," Society for Socialist Studies, Winnipeg, June l986. . (Available in electronic form on
request.)
"The Socialist Retrieval of Liberal Democracy," International Political Science Association, Workshop on The Crisis in
Political Thought, Ottawa, Oct. 3-4, l986.
"What is Living and What is Dead in the Theory and Practice of Liberal Democracy," Departments of Political Science and
Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, March 31, 1986.
"Freedom of Speech," Political Science Forum, University of Toronto, March 12, 1986.
"Democracy: the Cohen/Rogers Theory," Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, June 1985. (Available in
electronic form on request.)
"Nationalism and the Peace Movements," American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 1985.
"Pluralism and Democracy," United Jewish People's Order, Toronto, April 1985.
“Comment on Gottlieb,” American Philosophical Association, New York, December, 1984.
"Historical Materialism," guest lecture, Department of Political Science, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, April 3, 1984.
"Marxism and Democratic Theory," Guelph University, February 2, 1984.
"Democracy: More or Less," Conference on Contemporary Democratic Theory, Santiago Chile, November, 1983
sponsored by the Academia de Humanisme Cristiano. (Available in electronic form on request.)
"Marxism and Class Reductionism," Marx Colloquium, World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, August 1983.
"National Self-Determination: Peace Beyond Detente," Workshop on Disarmament, World Congress of Philosophy,
Montreal, August 1983.
"Democracy and Socialist Organization," Ottawa Committee for Labour Action, Conference on Socialist Organization,
Ottawa, May 15, 1983.
"Class Reductionism and Social Ontology," Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, March 1983.
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"The Charter of Rights: A Gramscian Analysis," Conference on the Canadian Constitution, University of Western Ontario,
March 1983.
"Democracy For...," Canadian Philosophical Association, Ottawa, June, 1982.
"Paternalism and False Consciousness," Karl Marx Centenary Conference, University of Manitoba, March 1983.
"Democratic Theory and Marxism," Committee on Socialist Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, May, 1981.
"The Constitution and the Canadian Left," Marxist Institute, Toronto, March 1981. (Available in electronic form on
request.)
"Marxism, Freedom, and the Individual," Groupe d'Études Marxistes, University of Ottawa, February 12, 1981.
"Stalinism and Democratic Theory," Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, February 12, 1981.
"Marxist Ethics and Objective Interests," Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, November 17, 1980.
"Stalinism, Marxism, and Democratic Theory," Fifth Annual Conference on the Current State of Marxist Theory,
University of Louisville, November 14, 1980. (Available in electronic form on request.)
Lectures on topics relating to Marxism, socialism, and democracy were given in universities and to left-wing community
groups and organizations during a tour in October, 1980 in Sudbury, Lakehead, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton,
and Vancouver.
"The Politics of the Dialectics of Nature," Fourth Annual Conference on the Current State of Marxist Theory, University of
Louisville, November 16, 1979. (Available in electronic form on request.)
"Comments on Burbidge," Canadian Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, May, 1979.
"Ideology and the Confederation Debate," Panel of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, May, 1979.
"Marxist Dialectics and Social Theory," Panel of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Saskatoon, May,
1979.
"Quebec Self-Determination and Canadian Interests," Canadian Philosophical Association Conference on Philosophy and
Confederation, Montreal, April 20-22, 1979.
"The Dialectics of Nature and Politics," Groupe d'Études Marxistes, University of Ottawa, March 1, 1979
"The New Left Ten Years Later," Conference on The New Left, Trent University, Peterborough, February 1, 1979.
“The Scientific Usefulness of the Dialectics of Nature," American Association for the Advancement of Science, Houston,
January, 1979. (Available in electronic form on request.)
"Kuhn on Scientific Creativity," World Congress of Philosophy, Dusseldorf, August 30, 1978.
"Comments on Hardin," Canadian Philosophical Association, London, May, 1978.
"The Role of the Radical Philosopher in Canada," Canadian Philosophical Association, London, May, 1978.
"On Objectivity in Social Science," Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, March 3, 1978.
"Marxism and Democracy," Workshop in Marxist Studies, S.U.N.Y., Buffalo, March 17, 1978. (Available in electronic
form on request.)
"Pluralism and Democracy," International Workshop on Pluralism, Paris, April, 1977.
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“Détente and Canadian Foreign Policy,” unpublished paper, October, 1976. (Available in electronic form on request.)
"Democracy: 'Socialist' and 'Bourgeois' Concepts," Society for the3 Philosophical Study of Marxism, American
Philosophical Association Western Division, New Orleans, April, 1976. (Available in electronic form on request.)
"Democracy and Socialism," Departments of Sociology, University of Regina, March 2, 1976.
"Marxist Dialectics and Psychology," Interdisciplinary Conference on Dialectical Theory and Psychology," Glendon
College, Toronto, August 24, 1975.
"Historical Explanation," Roundtable on Historical Explanation, Departments of Philosophy, York University and
University of Toronto, January, 1975.
"Objectivity in Social Science," Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, June, 1974.
"Activism and Scientism in the Interpretation of Karl Marx's First and Third Theses on Feuerbach," with D. Goldstick,
Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, June, 1974.
"Inductivism," Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Toronto, May 1974.
"Marxism and the State," Committee on Socialist Studies, Regional Conference, Glendon College, Toronto, April 9, 1972.
"Practice and Some Muddles About the Methodology of Historical Materialism," Canadian Philosophical Association, St.
John's, May, 1971.
“The Practice of Frederick Engels,” on the anniversary of Engels’ birth, University of Toronto, November, 1970.
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