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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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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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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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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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2Thomas Nemeth, Gramsci's Philosophy: A Critical Study Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 2 (2/3): 127-130. 1982.
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2Carol C. Gould, Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy and Society Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (1): 13-16. 1989.
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54The 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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20Globalization and Developmental DemocracyEthical Perspectives 15 (4): 487-505. 2008.Frank Cunningham discusses the idea that there is no universal form of democracy, in his contribution on MacPherson, “Globalization and developmental democracy”. Working at a time in which colonial attitudes had not yet been radically questioned, MacPherson analyzed the democratic potential of peoples that were, in Western eyes, still deemed too immature for self-government. MacPherson’s theoretical framework was particularly suited to such an endeavour, because his definition of democracy did n…Read more
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29Tout le mal vient de l'inégalité…Dialogue 37 (4): 669-. 1998.In memory of Professor Louise Marcil, from the University of Montreal, who died prematurely in April 1995, this special issue of Dialogue is dedicated to Equality. In addition to presenting the various contributions, the Introduction traces the main strands of Louise Marcil's work on equality. The impressive corpus of her writings on the subject is characterized throughout by sensitivity to the historical and conceptual complexity of egalitarian theories and policies and by a depth of scholarshi…Read more
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Thomas Nemeth, Gramsci's Philosophy: A Critical Study (review)Philosophy in Review 2 127-130. 1982.
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20Practice and Some Muddles about the Methodology of Historical MaterialismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (2). 1973.Along with the rest of his Critique de Ia Raison Dialectique, which it introduces, the “Question de Méthode” takes an important place in the development of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical and political thought. However, the Search is also a challenge to Marxists either to defend or abandon certain of their views, and as such I think it raises some crucial issues. It is the purpose of this essay not to produce a systematic critique of Sartre's influential work, but rather to explore and sharpen …Read more
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24Critical Notice of Frank Cunningham, Objectivity in Social Science (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 5 (2): 295-298. 1975.
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41The university and social justiceJournal of Academic Ethics 5 (2-4): 153-162. 2007.Considerations of social justice pertain to universities with respect to reserved spaces for applicants from disadvantaged groups, targeted hiring, differential student fees or faculty workloads and salaries, and similarly contested matters. This paper displaces debates over what constitutes just allocation of university resources from those over theories of justice in general to those about alternative visions of the proper goal of universities. To this end, educational and democratic theories …Read more
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