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Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.The chapters in this volume deal with timely issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in today's globalized world. Authored by leading political philosophers of our time, they appear here for the first time. The essays challenge and defend assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable political and legal institution in response to globalization, keeping in focus the role of rights at the normative foundations of democracy in a pluralistic world
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18Essence and Existence in Thomism: A Mental Vs. the "real Distinction?"University Press of Amer. 1988.
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4versity is full of all manner of public activity: students talking, reading, dozing, playing cards; tables representing a wide variety of ethnic communities and clubs advertising their functions, soliciting membership, and serving as gathering places; and—~most directly related to the topic of this essay—students advocating mainly radical political causes, passing out material exposing and denouncing putative (and more often than not correctly imputed) wrongdoings by authorities ranging from the…Read more
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9Burke, ReissueOup Canada. 2013.One of the twentieth century's most respected political philosophers presents a controversial perspective on the political ideas and intellectual legacy of Edmund Burke. This new edition includes an introduction by Frank Cunningham, placing the book in the broader context of Macpherson's work
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Objectivity in Social ScienceJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 7 (1): 184-186. 1973.
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47More on understanding in the social sciencesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4): 321-326. 1967.A central mistake in Rolf Gruner's recent article on understanding in the socia sciences in ferreted out, and consideration of it is used both to analyse Gruner's interpretation of understanding and to sketch a more adequate interpretation. The mistake is in distinguishing meanings and facts. The analysis suggests that Gruner was forced to see understanding both as a special kind of explanation and at the same time as no explanation. The sketch offers a distinction of three senses of ?understand…Read more
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19Book Reviews : Knowledge and Society: An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sci ences. By ARNOLD B. LEVISON. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1974. Pp. 188. $5.45 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 6 (3): 274-276. 1976.
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16The Conflicting Truths of Religion and DemocracySocial Philosophy Today 21 65-80. 2005.This paper suggests that the truths of religion and democracy are, respectively, theocracy and moral relativism. Religion tends toward theocracy, the thesis that religiously influenced political norms should trump secular norms. Democracy tends toward moral relativism, the thesis that society lacks agreed upon standards by which the varying and conflicting moral views therein may be adjudicated. The conflict between religion and democracy is thus unavoidable: theocracy insists that any conflict …Read more
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42Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 14 (14): 80-82. 1996.
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3Allen Buchanan, Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (3): 166-168. 1992.
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22Theories of Democracy: A Critical IntroductionRoutledge. 2001.a critical introduction Frank Cunningham. economic 200; and globality/ globalism 200, 204 group loyalties 62-3 group representation 95-100; challenges 97-100; modes 97; types 96 guild socialism 137 hegemony 190-1,213 Hobbesist 73, ...
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2Radical Philosophy and the New Social MovementsIn Roger S. Gottlieb (ed.), Radical philosophy: tradition, counter-tradition, politics, Temple University Press. pp. 199--220. 1993.
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120Democracy and socialism: Philosophical aporiaePhilosophy and Social Criticism 16 (4): 269-289. 1990.
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59when the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives published an ambitious report, The Rich and the Rest of Us by Armine Yalnizyan, reactions from the political right quickly followed. This was, of course, to be expected. Her research describes galloping disparities of income among Canadians from 1976, where after-tax median income of the top 10% of families was 31 times higher than that of the bottom 10%, to 2004 when it was 82 times higher. An even more dramatic case could be made by comparing we…Read more
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64Two years ago, the distribution of the world’s people reached the point at which over half now live in cities. Some social scientists and urban planners (but few political leaders other than those of large municipalities) had seen this change coming. With one group of exceptions, philosophers have paid less attention to the subject. I would like to advance some ideas about how to think philosophically about cities, drawing upon North American and European thinkers and traditions
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59Theories of Democracy: A Critical IntroductionRoutledge. 2001.This is the first book to be published in this exciting new series on political philosophy. Cunningham provides a critical and clear introduction to the main contemporary approaches to democracy: participatory democracy, classic and radical pluralism, deliberative democracy, catallaxy, and others. Also discussed are theorists in the background of current democratic thought, such as Tocqueville, Mill, and Rousseau. The book includes applications of democratic theories including an extended discus…Read more
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6Review: Retrieving Macpherson: Critical Appraisal of a New Study (review)Science and Society 67 (2). 2003.
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43Democratic Theory and SocialismCambridge University Press. 1987.This book is an important contribution to the theory of democracy and socialism. The underlying question it poses is: how, if at all, can one have both socialism and democracy? In posing an answer to this question, Professor Cunningham addresses the following topics: the definition of democracy and whether socialism is necessary to its progress: the socialist retrieval of liberal democracy associated with the work of C. B. Macpherson: the political consciousness that Gramsci placed at the center…Read more
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