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Email: cgould@gmu.edu
Education:
University of Chicago, B.A., General Honors on Graduation; Phi Beta Kappa; French Prize
Yale University, M.Phil, Ph.D
Current Positions:
Professor of Philosophy and Government and Director of the Center for Global Ethics, George
Mason University; affiliated Professor of Women’s Studies, Professor of Cultural Studies
Editor, Journal of Social Philosophy (Blackwells)
Executive Director, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Vice-President / President Elect, American Section, International Society for Philosophy of Law
and Social Philosophy
Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy and Contemporary Social Issues
Previous Positions:
Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Department of Political and Social Science, European University
Institute, Florence, Italy, 2000
Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator, Dept. of Philosophy, Stevens Institute of
Technology (Head, Humanities and Social Sciences, 1988-93)
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 1996–2004
Chercheur associé, C.R.E.A. (Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée), École
Polytechnique, C.N.R.S., Paris, France
New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty, Visiting Professor of Political Science
Visiting Research Associate, Group on Epistemology and History of the Exact Sciences and
Scientific Institutions, C.N.R.S., Paris, France
University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
Swarthmore College, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Herbert H. Lehman College of C.U.N.Y, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
S.U.N.Y., College at New Paltz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors:
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award ( France)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers
NSF/Ethics and Values in Science and Technology Research Grant, PI ($150,000)
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
New Jersey Department of Higher Education Grants: Project Director, Planning Grant and
Curriculum Development Grant, Project Director ($135,000)
S & H Foundation Grant, Director, Lecture Series on "The Social, Ethical and Policy
Implications of the New Computer Technologies"
Medal of the Institute of Women Today (highest honor of the Institute and its ten sponsoring
national women's organizations)
Faculty Research Award, Research Foundation of C.U.N.Y.
Danforth Graduate Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Publications:
Books:
Author:
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, September, 2004 (hardcover and paperback).
Reviews to date: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=2421]; Teaching Philosophy (June, 2005); Philosophy in Review (June, 2005); Political Theory (forthcoming); review essays and response: Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 1, no. 2 (December, 2005), 207-238.
Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 1990, 363pp.
Indonesian translation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Tiara Wacana Yogya, 1993.
Marx's Social Ontology: Individuality and Community in Marx's Theory of Social Reality.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1978, 208pp.
Spanish translation, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1983
Japanese translation, Tokyo: Godo Shuppansho, 1980.
Editor:
Constructivism and Practice: Toward a Historical Epistemology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, 272pp.
Gender. Series: Key Concepts in Critical Theory. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books/Humanity, 1999, 485pp.
The Information Web: Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking. Boulder:
Westview Press, 1989, 280pp.
Beyond Domination: New Perspectives on Women and Philosophy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1984, 321pp.
In preparation:
Historical Epistemology: The Papers of Marx W. Wartofsky.
Co-Editor:
with Pasquale Pasquino: Cultural Identity and the Nation-State. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, 155 pp.
with Robert S. Cohen: Artifacts, Representations, and Social Practice: Essays for Marx W. Wartofsky. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, 562pp.
with Marx W. Wartofsky: Women and Philosophy: Toward a Theory of Liberation. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976, 364pp. (Reprinted from Special Issue, The Philosophical Forum, Vol. V, nos. 1-2 [Fall-Winter, 1973-74], with a new introduction.)
Co-Author: (with James Sterba, Tibor Machan, Alison Jaggar et al), Morality and Social Justice: Point/Counterpoint. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995, 308pp.
Articles:
“Recognition, Care, and Solidarity,” forthcoming in Socialité et reconnaissance. Grammaires de l´humain, eds. Georg W. Bertram, Robin Celikates, Christophe Laudou, and David Lauer ( Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2006).
“Global Democratic Transformation and the Internet,” forthcoming in Social Philosophy Today, Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006.
“Reply to my Critics” (Reply to four reviews of Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights—William McBride, Omar Dahbour, Kory Schaff, and David Schweickart), forthcoming in Philosophy against Empire, Volume IV of Radical Philosophy Today, eds. Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006).
“Reconceiving Democratic Governance and Self-Determination,”forthcoming in the Journal of Social Philosophy, Special Issue on Democracy and Globalization, ed. Carol C. Gould and Alistair Macleod, Vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring, 2006).
“Negotiating the Global and the Local: Situating Transnational Democracy and Human Rights,” in Globalization, Development and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Deen Chatterjee. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2006.
“Beyond Minimalism in Human Rights and Democracy: A Response to Nickel and Bohman,” in “Gould on Democracy and Human Rights,” Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 1, no. 2, December, 2005, pp. 207-238.
“Democracy and Human Rights,” in The Essential Guide to Human Rights, ed. Christien van den Anker ( London: Hodder Arnold, 2004).
“Women’s Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue,” in Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, Practice , ed. Sibyl Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 197-219.
“Does Stakeholder Theory Require Democratic Management?” Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring, 2002).
“Democratic Egalitarianism,” in James Sterba, ed., Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2001, pp.231-246.
“Two Concepts of Universality and the Problem of Cultural Relativism,” in Cultural Identity and the Nation-State , ed. C. Gould and P. Pasquino. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 67-84.
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“The Self and the Social Self,” Encyclopedia of Ethics, second edition. New York: Garland
Publishing, 2001.
“Racism and Democracy Reconsidered,” Social Identities, Volume 6, number 4, 2000: 425-439.
"Engels' Origins: A Feminist Critique," in Engels after Marx , ed. Terrell Carver and Manfred Steger. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1999, 253-260.
"Cultural Justice and the Limits of Difference: Feminist Contributions to Value Inquiry," Utopia
( Athens), vol. 21 (July-Aug., 1996): 131-143; and in revised form in Norms and Values: Essays in Honor of Virginia Held , ed. J. G. Haber and M. S. Halfon. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, 73-85.
"Differences, Universality and the Radical Critique of Law," in Radical Critiques of the Law , ed. S. M. Griffin and R. L. Moffat. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1997, 180-85.
"Group Rights and Social Ontology," The Philosophical Forum, Special Double Issue on
"Philosophical Perspectives on National Identity," Vol. XXVIII, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter, 1996-97): 73-86; and in Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie - Beiheft, Vol. "Rights," ed. R. Martin and G. Sprenger, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, 56-63; and in revised form in Groups and Group Rights , ed. Christine Sistare and Larry May. Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, 2001, Chapter I, 43-57.
"Democracy and Diversity: Representing Differences," in Democracy and Difference: Changing Boundaries of the Political , ed. S. Benhabib. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996, 171-186.
"Multicultural Democracy and the Nation-State," Newsletter on International Cooperation.
Newark, DE: American Philosophical Association, Vol. 95, no. 1 (Fall, 1995): 124-27.
"Between Discrimination and Differentiation: Introductory Reflections," Symposium on
Feminist Philosophy after Twenty Years, Hypatia, Vol. 9, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 183-187.
"Positive Freedom, Economic Justice, and the Redefinition of Democracy," in Ethical Issues in Contemporary Society , ed. J. Howie and G. Schedler. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995, 23-53.
"Marx after Marxism," in Artifacts, Representations, and Social Practice , ed. C. Gould and R. S. Cohen. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, 377-396.
"Feminism and Democratic Community Revisited," in Democratic Community: NOMOS XXXV , ed. J. Chapman and I. Shapiro. New York University Press, 1993, 396-413.
Reprinted in Communitarianism: A New Public Ethics , ed. M. Daly. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Publishers, 1993, 344-353.
"New Paradigms in Professional Ethics: Feminism, Communitarianism, and Democratic Theory," Professional Ethics, Vol. 1, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer, 1992): 143-154.
"Claude Lefort on Modern Democracy," Praxis International, Vol. 10, 3 / 4 (Jan., 1991): 337-45.
"On the Conception of the Common Interest: Between Procedure and Substance," in Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in Ethics and Politics , ed. Michael Kelly. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, 253-273.
"Philosophical Dichotomies and Feminist Thought: Towards a Critical Feminism" in Feministische Philosophie, WienerReihe, Band 4, ed. Herta Nagl. Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1990, 184-190.
"Network Ethics: Access, Consent, and The Informed Community," in The Information Web: Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking , ed. C. Gould. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989, 1-35.
"Economic Justice, Self-Management, and the Principle of Reciprocity," in Economic Justice: Private Rights and Public Responsibilities , ed. K. Kipnis and D. T. Meyers. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985, 202-216.
"Self-Development and Self-Management: A Response to Doppelt," Inquiry, Vol. 27, No. 1
(March, 1984): 87-103.
"Private Rights and Public Virtues: Women, the Family and Democracy," in Beyond Domination: New Perspectives on Women and Philosophy , ed. C. Gould. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1984, 3-18.
German translation: "Private Rechte und öffentliche Tugenden: Frauen, Familie und
Demokratie," in Denkverhältnisse Feminismus und Kritik, herausgegeben von Elisabeth
List und Herlinde Studer. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1989, 66-85.
“Freedom and Women," Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 15, No. 3 (Fall, 1984): 20-34.
"Beyond Causality in the Social Sciences: Reciprocity as a Model of Non-Exploitative Social Relations," in Epistemology, Methodology and the Social Sciences: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 71, ed. R. S. Cohen and M. W. Wartofsky. Boston and Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983, 53-88.
"Contemporary Legal Conceptions of Property and their Implications for Democracy," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXVII, no. 11 (November, 1980): 716-729; and in Proceedings of the IVR World Congress 1979, Basel, Switzerland, 1982.
Reprinted in Philosophical Perspectives on Human Rights , ed. Patricia H. Werhane.
New York: Random House, 1985; and in Social Ideals and Policies: Readings in Social and Political Philosophy , ed. Steven Luper. Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998.
"Socialism and Democracy," Praxis International, Vol. I, no. 1 (April, 1981): 49-63.
Reprinted in Democracy: Key Concepts in Critical Theory , ed. Philip Green. Atlantic
Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1993, 246-256; and in Terence Ball and Richard
Dagger, eds., Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 5 th edition (Longman, 2004), chapter 45.
"Action, Creation and the Concept of Community," Dialectics and Humanism, The Polish
Philosophical Quarterly, the Polish Academy of Sciences (Summer, 1979): 53-59.
"Social Ontology and the Crisis in the Foundation of Values," Proceedings of the Sixteenth World Congress of Philosophy, Dusseldorf, West Germany, 1978.
"Marx's Social Ontology and the Methodology of the Social Sciences," La Filosofia y las Ciencias Sociales. Mexico: Editorial Grijalbo, 1976, 127-153.
"The Woman Question: Philosophy of Liberation and the Liberation of Philosophy," The
Philosophical Forum, Vol. V, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter, 1973-74): 5-44.
Reprinted in Women and Philosophy (see above); and in Philosophy of Women: Classical to Current Concepts, ed. M. Mahowald. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishers, 1977; and in Women in Western Thought , ed. M. L. Osborne, New York: Random House, 1979, 164-68 and 174-79.
"From the Dialectic of Questions to Social Critique: Proposals for a Concrete Phenomenology of Education," The Philosophical Forum, Vol. VI, no. 1 (Fall, 1974): 15-28.
"Review of David Laing, The Marxist Theory of Art: An Introductory Survey," in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Winter, 1980.
Working Papers:
“Conceptualizing Women’s Human Rights,” EUI Working Papers, RSC No. 2002/40 (June, 2002), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.
“Hard Questions in Democratic Theory: When Justice and Democracy Conflict.” Working Papers, Number 5. University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, March, 1994.
Invited Papers Read (partial list):
“Self-Determination beyond Sovereignty: Relating Transnational Democracy and Local Autonomy,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, NY, December 28, 2005.
“Justifying Transnational Democracy,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, NY, December 30, 2005.
Invited Panelist, “Does International Law Threaten Democracy?” International Law Weekend, New York, NY, October 21, 2005.
“Conceptualizing the Role of Solidarity in Transnational Democracy,” American Political Science Association, September 8, 2005.
“Global Democratic Transformation and the Internet,” Keynote Address, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, July 28, 2005.
“Author Meets Critics: Gould’s Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Comments on Schweickart, McBride, and Schaff,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 30, 2005.
“Comment on Jonathan Bowman’s ‘The European Union Democratic Deficit: Federalists, Skeptics, and Revisionists’,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 29, 2005.
“Transnational Representation: Extending Participation in Cross-border Decision Making,” Midwest Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2005.
“Beyond Minimalism in Human Rights and Democracy: A Response to Nickel and Bohman,” Author Meets Critics session on Carol Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights,
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 25, 2005.
“Democratic Governance and the Idea of Self-Determination: Relating Transnational Decision-Making to Local Autonomy,” Leverhulme Workshop on Global Democracy, the Nation-State, and Global Ethics, Aberdeen, Scotland, March 19,2005, IVR World Congress, Granada, Spain, May 28, 2005; and American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Washington D.C., September 3, 2005.
“Reconceiving Democratic Governance and Self-Determination,”American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, MA, December 28, 2004, and George Mason University Philosophy Club, April 20, 2005.
“War Rape and the Limits of Just War Theory: Comments on Scholz,” AMINTAPHIL, Stanford University, November 20, 2004.
“Reply to my Critics,” Author meets Critics discussion of Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Annual Conference of the Radical Philosopher’s Association, Howard University,
Nov. 4-7, 2004.
“Negotiating the Global and the Local: Situating Transnational Democracy and Human Rights,”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Sept. 3, 2004, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, MA, December 29, 2004, Human Sciences Seminar, George Washington University, February 11, 2005, and Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 11, 2005.
“The Global Democratic Deficit and Economic Human Rights,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL Sept. 4, 2004.
“Relationships, Caring, and the Idea of Recognition,” Sociality and Recognition, 10 th International French-German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, France, July 21, 2004.
“Democracy, Globalization, and Human Rights,” Session on Globalization and International Justice, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Dalhousie University, June 2, 2003.
“Democratic Networks,” Conference on Technology Studies: New Frontiers,” Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 20, 2002.
“Terrorism and Empathy,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 30, 2002.
“Terrorism and Democracy,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 28, 2002.
“Democracy and Human Rights between the Personal and the Global,” MacDowell Conference on Philosophy and Democracy, American University, Washington, D.C., November 9, 2001.
“Are Democracy and Human Rights Compatible in the Context of Globalization?,”
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., May 3, 2001; and in revised form at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Supranationalism, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 20, 2001.
“Women’s Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution: Initiating a Dialogue,” Conference on Women and the Constitution, Baruch College, C.U.N.Y., February 8, 2001; and in revised form at the Gender Studies Working Group, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, April 6, 2001.
“Evaluating the Claims for Global Democracy,” Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, December 6, 2000; and in revised form as the Presidential Address, American Society for Value Inquiry, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 29, 2000, and to the Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy and Contemporary Social Issues, February 1, 2001.
“Conceptualizing Women’s Human Rights,” Gender Studies Working Group, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, November, 2000.
"Do the Human Rights Presuppose a Conception of Human Nature?,” New York State Political Science Association, Hofstra University, April 14 th, 2000.
"Cultures and their Transformation," Commenting paper, AMINTAPHIL Conference, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, March 10, 2000.
"Comments on Joan Callahan's 'On Revising the Payments for Hate Speech,'" Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, MA, Dec. 29, 1999.
"Universal Human Rights vs. Cultural Relativity: Reconcilable or Not?" Roundtable on Teaching International Ethics to Public Managers, 21 st Annual Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 5, 1999.
“Two Concepts of Universality and the Problem of Cultural Relativism,” Keynote Address, Fifteenth International Social Philosophy Conference, North American Society for Social Philosophy, Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA, August 7, 1998; and the Honi Haber Memorial Lecture, the University of Colorado at Denver, April 5 th, 1999.
"Racism and Democracy Reconsidered," American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 1997; and William Paterson University, Dept. of Philosophy Colloquium, March 29, 2000.
"Embodied Politics," Society for Women in Philosophy, New York group, March 1,1996; the University of Toronto, Depts. of Political Science and Philosophy, April 12, 1996; Fordham University, Dept. of Philosophy, October 2, 1996; Center for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences and the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, June 19, 1997; Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, Memorial session for Marx W. Wartofsky, Boston University, September 22, 1997.
"Interactive Multiculturalism, Identities, and the Reconception of Citizenship," Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris, France, June 13, 1997.
"Engels' Origins: A Feminist Critique," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 1, 1995; Suffolk County Community College, Tribute to Marx Wartofsky, May 4, 1997.
Panelist, "National Conversation on Race, Religion and Democracy in America," sponsored by the Racial Justice Initiative of Riverside Church and the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association; Conversation I, December 28, 1995; TV Broadcast on C-Span, January 15 and 16, 1996; Conversation II, APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 30, 1995.
"Group Rights, Cultural Justice, and Social Ontology," Annual Lecture in Political Science, York University, Scarborough, Ontario, November 9, 1995.
"Group Rights and Social Ontology," 17th IVR World Congress, Bologna, Italy, June 17, 1995; American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 1, 1995; Metaphysical Society of America, Annual Meeting, Fordham University, March 8, 1996.
Panelist, "Nationalism and Internationalism: Philosophical Perspectives," Forum sponsored by the International Cooperation Committee of the American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, APA, Eastern Division, Boston, MA, December 28, 1994.
"When freedom and equality conflict, do they conflict?," AMINTAPHIL Conference on
Consistency of Liberty and Equality, Charleston, South Carolina, November 3, 1994.
"Supranational Bodies, Democratic States, and the Problem of Intervention," Session on Democracy and Globalization, Nobel Symposium: "Democracy's Victory and Crisis," Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden, August 27-30, 1994; University Seminar on Political and Social Thought, Columbia University, New York, October 27, 1994.
"Ethnicity and Nationality in French and American Perspectives," Département langues vivantes, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, May 24, 1994.
"Cultural Justice and the Limits of Difference," Session on Feminist Contributions to Value Inquiry, American Society for Value Inquiry, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 28, 1994; Fulbright Interfoundation Lectures, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 8, 1994 and National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, May 11, 1994.
"Hard Questions in Democratic Theory: When Justice and Democracy Conflict," City University of New York Graduate Colloquium in Philosophy, New York, NY, March 24, 1993; Political Philosophy Colloquium, Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 9, 1994; Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, February 11, 1994; Fulbright Interfoundation Lecture, Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien, April 21, 1994.
"Diversity and Democracy: Representing Difference," Conference for Political Thought, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 17, 1993; Fulbright Interfoundation lecture, Department of Politics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, February 21, 1994.
"Feminism and Democratic Community," New York State Political Science Association, Hunter College, New York, NY, April 23, 1993; and Seton Hall University, East Orange, NJ, May 6, 1993.
"Differences, Universality, and the Radical Critique of Law, AMINTAPHIL Conference, Allentown, PA, October 23, 1992.
"Comments on Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory," New
School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty, New York, NY, April 30, 1992.
"New Paradigms in Professional Ethics: Feminism, Communitarianism, and Democratic
Theory," National Conference on Ethics and the Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Jan. 31, 1992.
"Marx after Marxism," Symposium on "The Future of Marxism," American Philosophical
Association, Central Division, Chicago, Illinois, April 27, 1991; and at the New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, April 25, 1992.
"The Justification of Democracy," Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, NY, April 6, 1991.
"Two Paradoxes of Self-Constitution," Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Columbia University, March 14, 1991.
"Social Justice and the Limitation of Democracy," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Los Angeles, CA, March 29, 1990; at the Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, NY, April 8, 1990; the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 1, 1990; and at the Columbia University Seminar on Political and Social Thought, April 9, l992.
"Feminism and Democratic Community: Comments on Jane Mansbridge," American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy meeting with the American Political Science Association, August 30, 1990; and at the Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, NY, April 7, 1991.
"On the Conception of the Common Interest: Between Procedure and Substance," Department of Philosophy Colloquium, New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty, February 15, 1990.
Invited Speaker, Symposium on Richard Dien Winfield's Reason and Justice, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 29, 1989.
Invited Panelist, Panel discussion on "Patrolling the Programmers: Computer Ethics and
Computer Accountability," Annual Meeting, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 1989.
"The Issue of Technology and Democracy in Dewey and Heidegger: Comments on Rockmore and Hood," Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Bordeaux, France, July 1, 1989.
"Lefort's Democracy and Political Theory: A Critique," Baruch Colloquium for Philosophy, Politics, and the Social Sciences, New York, NY, May 1, 1989.
"Fetal Harm as Child Abuse: Comments on Callahan and Bayles," American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 27, 1989.
"Positive Freedom, Economic Justice, and the Redefinition of Democracy," Fourteenth
Annual Leys Memorial Lecture, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, April
25, 1989.
Response to McBride's Review of Rethinking Democracy, at "Rethinking Socialism: A
Symposium based on Gould's Rethinking Democracy and Cunningham's Democratic Theory and Socialism," Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, NY, April 1, 1989.
"On the Conception of the Common Interest: From Politics to Participation," XVIIIth World Congress of Philosophy, Round Table in "Philosophical Problems of Politics," Brighton, England, August 23, 1988; and at Drew University, Madison, NJ, November 14, 1988.
"Philosophical Dichotomies and Feminist Thought: Towards a Critical Feminism, XVIII th World Congress of Philosophy, Round Table on "The Illusion of Subject/Object Dichotomy," Brighton, England, August 25, 1988; and at Drew University, Nov 14, 1988.
"Rethinking Democracy: Individual Choice, Common Action and the Principle of Equal Positive Freedom," Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 4, 1988.
"Positive Freedom, Economic Justice and Self-Management," Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 13, 1988.
"Socialism and Rights," University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, January 15, 1988.
Hermeneutics, Rational Consensus Theory, and Social Ontology: On Relativism and
Foundationalism," Annual Meeting, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, October 15, 1987.
"Justice, Market Socialism, and the Common Interest," The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,
Jerusalem, Israel, March 12, 1987.
"Comments on Bernard Dauenhauer, 'Hope: Cardinal Political Virtue'," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, December 29, 1986.
"Positive Freedom and Democracy: Philosophical Foundations of Self-management," Institute of Philosophy, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR, September 11, 1986.
"Network Ethics: Access, Consent, and the Informed Community," Conference on Ethical
and Social Implications of Computer Networking, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, April 11, 1986; and at Pace University, New York, NY, April 14, 1988.
"Participation, Politics and the Economy: Philosophical Foundations of Self-Management," Annual Meeting, Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1985.
"Equal Rights, Individual Differences, and the Ideal of Self-Development, Seventeenth World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 23, 1983.
"Comparative Philosophical Approaches to Democracy and Human Rights," Seventeenth World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 22, 1983.
"Social Ontology and the Question of Foundationalism in Ethics," Metaphysical Society of America, Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 11, 1983.
"Economic Justice, Self-Management and the Principle of Reciprocity," Ninth Plenary Conference, American Section, International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Gainesville, Florida, January 14, 1982; and at the Institute for Systems Theory, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR, September 9, 1986.
"The Democratic Personality: Self-Development, Character, and Political Participation,"
Sixth Loyola Symposium on the Person, Dept. of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, November 20, 1982.
"Cosmopolitical Democracy: Moral Principles among Nations," Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York, NY, October 26, 1982; and to the American Society for Social Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, August 24, 1983.
"Making Participation and Authority Compatible: The New Democracy," Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, NY, NY, Feb. 10, 1981; Cerberus Society, Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, May 26, 1981; Institut fur Philosophie der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, June 4, 1981; Dept. of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, May 26, 1982; Depts. of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, June 7, 1982; Dept. of Philosophy, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 14, 1988.
"Current Feminist Philosophy in the United States, University of Vienna, Feminist Studies Group, Vienna, Austria, June 17, 1982.
"What are the Human Rights?," Tenth Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, October, 1981, and at Institute of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May 24, 1982; also at Institut fur Philosophie der Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria, June 15, 1982.
"Private Rights and Public Virtues: Women, the Family and Democracy," Keynote Address, Annette Walters Memorial Conference on the Philosophy of Women's Liberation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 15, 1981, and at Stockton State College, Department of Philosophy, Pomona, NJ, March 3, 1982.
"Technology and Ethics: Should Technology be Left to the Experts?," Fourth Conference on Foundations of Science and Ethics, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, April 6-12, 1981, and at Instituto di Cibernetica, Arco Felice (Napoli), Italy, June 18, 1981.
"Socialism and Democracy," Conference on Socialism and Democracy, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, May 29, 1980.
"Contemporary Legal Conceptions of Property and their Implications for Democracy," Symposium on Political Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meetings, Boston, Mass., Dec. 30, 1980, and World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Section on Analytical Jurisprudence), Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 27 - Sept. 1, 1979.
"Democracy and Reciprocity," New York University, Gallatin Division, New York, NY,
April 30, 1980.
"Comments on James Sterba, 'A Marxist Dilemma for Social Contract Theory'," American Philosophical Association, Western Division Meetings, Detroit, Michigan, April 26, 1980.
"Ontological Foundations of Democracy," The Metaphysical Society of America, Manhattanville College, March 15, 1979; and Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, April 13,1979; University of Turku, Department of Philosophy, Turku, Finland, May 28, 1982.
"Freedom, Reciprocity and Democracy," New York University Philosophy Club, New York, NY, February 22, 1979; and at Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ, March 3, 1982.
"Comments on N. Holmstrom, 'Exploitation and Alienation'," New Jersey Philosophical Association, Livingston College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 2, 1978.
"Freedom and Women," University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, October 25-27, 1978; and Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1979.
"Social Ontology and the Crisis in the Foundation of Values," Sixteenth World Congress of Philosophy, Dusseldorf, West Germany, August 26-September 2, 1978.
"Action, Creation, and the Concept of Community," Conference on Creativity in Social Life, Jablonna, Poland, August 21-24, 1978.
"Beyond Causality in the Social Sciences: Reciprocity as a Model of Non-Exploitative Social Relations," Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, March 15, 1977; and at the Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, December 8, 1978.
"Comments on Theodore Benditt, 'Rights and Claims: Inserting the Wedge'," Colloquium
on Political Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December, 1976.
"From Equal Rights to Liberation: An Analysis of the Feminist Critiques of Domination,"
Matchette Foundation Lecture, Purdue University, East Lafayette, Indiana, Apr. 20, 1976.
"Towards a Labor Theory of Cause: Action and Creation in Marx's Social Ontology," International Philosophy Conference, New York, NY, April 3, 1976.
"The Concept of Community," comments as invited discussant, Conference sponsored by
New Jersey State Council on the Humanities, Teaneck, NJ, March 14, 1976.
"Socialist Feminism beyond the Limits of Liberalism: Comments on Elshtain and Landes,
Conference of the Caucus for a New Political Science, Brown University, Nov., 1975.
"Marx's Social Ontology and the Methodology of the Social Sciences," First National
Colloquium of Philosophy, Morelia, Mexico, Aug., 1975.
"Marx's Social Ontology: A Philosophical Reconstruction based on the Grundrisse," Three lectures given at C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, Department of Philosophy, March 5, 12, 19, 1975.
"The Woman Question: Philosophy of Liberation and the Liberation of Philosophy," Society for Women in Philosophy, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, April, 1974; and the XIth International Session, Korcula Summer School, Korcula, Yugoslavia, August, 1974.
"From the Dialectic of Questions to Social Critique: Proposals for a Concrete Phenomenology of Education," Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, October, 1973, and Sarah Lawrence College, February 6, 1979.
Professional Activities:
Editor, Journal of Social Philosophy (Blackwells), Sept. 2004 -:
Key activities to date:
Organized and invited new Editorial Board (30 members)
Redesigned journal cover, layout and guidelines and wrote three “Notes from the Editor”
Invited ten articles by distinguished philosophers for Inaugural Issue and personally edited all of
those; edited several of the submitted articles for publication
Found referees and supervised the process of reviewing approximately 125 submitted articles,
with two referees or more per article; Total number of referees for 2004-05 was 97, plus many of the members of the Editorial Board.
Co-edited Special Issue (with Alistair Macleod), Democracy and Globalization, forthcoming
March, 2006.
Editorial Board Memberships:
Editorial Board, Journal of Global Ethics
Editorial Board, AMINTAPHIL Book Series, forthcoming Springer
Editorial Advisory Board, Professional Ethics
Advisory Editor, Applied Philosophy
Editorial Board, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Editorial Board, Journal of Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Editorial Board, Praxis International
Organizations and Committees (with offices held):
Executive Director, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs-, 1995-2005.
(Plan three panels of the society per year, held at the divisional meetings of the American
Philosophical Association)
Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy and Contemporary
Social Issues (previously the Political Economy of War and Peace), 1999 - present; Chair, 1984-85, 1995-98; Associate, 1973 -
Chair, Publications Committee, American Section, International Society for Philosophy of Law
and Social Philosophy, 2000 - 2003 ; Executive Committee, 1999-2001, 1995-97; 1985- 1987; Program Chair, 2000 National Conference
Executive Committee (elected), Society for the Philosophy of Technology, 1997-2002
Executive Committee, Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, 1992-
President, American Society for Value Inquiry, 2000
Program Chair, IVR (Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) World Congress
1999
Member, American Philosophical Association, Committee on the Status of Women, 1992-95
(Wrote "Report on the Status of Senior Women in the Profession," published in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, May, 1995.)
Interim Citizen's Governing Council, The National Forum on Science and Technology Goals,
1994-97
Associate, Columbia University Seminar on Political and Social Thought, 1992-
Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, American Philosophical Association.,
1983-86
APA Ad Hoc Committee on Revising the Program of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Division, 1985
Chair, 1984 Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.
(Responsible for organizing the entire program for the annual meeting of the Association,
including planning of symposia, inviting speakers, commentators, and chairs, and
refereeing and selection of submitted papers.)
Committee on International Cooperation, American Philosophical Association, 1975-82
Committee on Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers, American Philosophical
Association, 1979-82
Organizing Committee, 1981 Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, American Philosophical
Association
Colloquia, symposia, and conferences organized (partial list):
30+ panels at three divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association as Director,
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
65+ sessions as Chair or Co-Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy
and Contemporary Social Issues
60+ colloquia as Organizer and Faculty Adviser, Stevens Philosophy Club
Co-Organizer, Special Workshop on “Democracy and Globalization,” IVR World Congress
2005, Granada, Spain, May 23-29, 2005.
Co-Organizer, “Terrorism and Gender,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division,
March 30, 2002.
Program Chair, AMINTAPHIL national conference, “Justice and the Global Economy,”
University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, March 9-11, 2000.
Organizer, “The Philosophy of Marx Wartofsky,” The New School University, Graduate
Faculty, March 5-6, 1999.
Program Chair, IVR World Congress 1999. (As Chair of a fifteen person program committee,
organized a program of approximately 80 international speakers.)
Organizer and Chair, "French and American Perspectives on Ethnic and National Differences,"
Colloquium co-sponsored by the United States Information Service and the Franco- American Commission for Educational Exchange, Embassy of the United States of America, Paris, France, June 15, 1994.
Organizer and Chair, "Feminist Philosophy after Twenty Years," Special Session arranged by the
APA Committee on the Status of Women, American Philosophical Association,
Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 30, 1993
Organizer, Conference on Bridging the Two Cultures: Issues of Gender and Ethnicity in the
Sciences and the Humanities, sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 4, 1990.
Organizer, Conference on Bridging the Two Cultures, sponsored by the New Jersey Department
of Higher Education, Stevens Institute of Technology, April 3, 1989.
Organizer, National Conference on Ethical and Social Implications of Computer Networking,
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 11-12, 1986.
Organizer and Chair, Round Table Symposium on Women and Culture, Seventeenth World
Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 26, 1983.
President, National Conference on the Philosophy of Women's Liberation, sponsored by the
Institute of Women Today, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 15-17, 1981.
Session Chair (sampling):
Chair, Session on The Law of Peoples and its Critics, American Political Science Association,
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 8, 2005.
Chair, Session on luck egalitarianism, Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference,
Oxford, England, July 2, 2005.
Chair, Session on “Jus ad bellum issues,” Conference on Just War Theory, AMINTAPHIL, Stanford University, November 18-21, 2004.
Chair, Session of "Democracy, Minority Rights, and Citizenship," Conference for the Study of
Political Thought, Columbia University, April 5, 1997.
Chair, Session on "Democratic Deliberation about Final Ends," American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 30, 1996.
Chair, Session on "Rethinking Affirmative Action," Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs,
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 28, 1996.
Chair, Session on "Groups and Social Justice," AMINTAPHIL Conference, Lexington, KY,
November 1, 1996.
Chair, Symposium: "The Ideal of Efficiency," American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December 29, 1993.
Chair, Symposium on Rationality, Annual Meeting, American Philosophical Association,
Eastern Division, Washington, DC, December 28, 1992.
Chair, section on Information Technologies and Workplace Democracy, Radical Philosophy
Association Conference, NY, NY, November 4, 1989.
Chair, Session of Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division, December 28, 1989.
Moderator, Session on "Plato, Heidegger and Fink: The Phenomenal Basis of the Ontological
Difference," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University, October 15, 1988.
Chair, Session on Social Movements, Socialist Scholars Conference, New York City,
April 9, 1988.
Chair, Session of the American Society for Social Philosophy, Montreal, Aug. 24, 1983.
Moderator, New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, Monmouth College, Session on
"Nuclear War," April 16, 1983.
Chair, Symposium on "Conceiving Childhood: Child Animism," American Philosophical
Association, Western Division Meetings, May 1, 1982.
Chair, Symposium on "Nuclear War," American Philosophical Association Pacific Division
Meetings, Sacramento, California, March 27, 1982.
Moderator, Session on "Persons, Purposes, and Respect," New Jersey Regional Philosophical
Association, Princeton, NJ, December 12, 1981.
Chair, Session on "Rights and Death," Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Tallahassee,
Florida, October 19, 1981.
Chair, Symposium on "Marxism," American Philosophical: Association, Eastern Division
Meetings, New York, December 29, 1979.
Grant and Fellowship Reviewing:
National Science Foundation, Program in Ethics and Values Studies
National Endowment for the Humanities
Franco-American Commission on Educational Exchange (Fulbright)
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships
Research Foundation of CUNY Award Program
Membership in Professional Societies:
American Philosophical Association
American Political Science Association
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
American Section, International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Conference on Political Thought
Metaphysical Society of America
Society for Women in Philosophy
Academic administrative experience:
George Mason University:
Director, Center for Global Ethics
Responsible for initiating ethics and normative activities throughout the university, in curricula, research, workshops and lectures for faculty, students and the community. Work with and report to the Provost.
Activities and accomplishments, Sept. 2004 to date:
Constituted Board of Faculty Advisers
Designed effective and helpful website, with syllabi on global ethics, codes of ethics, and links to
other ethics centers, as well as announcements of Center activities.
Surveyed the state of ethics teaching and research at Mason, and met with most of the Deans of
the Schools at Mason and with their Chairs of departments where relevant (including
Education, Law, Information Technology, the Krasnow Institute and several others) to
determine how to advance ethics activities in ways helpful to each of them.
Worked closely with the School of Management and with Dean Klimoski to initiate and guide
the Ethics Task Force. Organized three invited lectures on Business Ethics. Developed
and gave ethics workshop to incoming MBA students.
Worked with Environmental science and policy to help establish environmental ethics
requirement
Established close connections with the Center for Global Studies (including jointly sponsored
lectures and research) and the Center for Global Affairs at Mason (including cross-listing
courses).
Participated in meetings on ethics and conflict resolution, with the ICAR group led by Dan
Rothbart.
Established linkages with other local ethics and democracy centers (UMD, Georgetown,
American, GWU).
Met with GMU administrators regarding fundraising for the Center. Met with media relations to
arrange publicity for the Center.
Sponsored or co-sponsored several talks on ethics and social justice, including a lecture on
international ethics by Ariel Colonomous from Sciences Po, Paris.
Initiated and submitted major NSF collaborative grant application on “Global Democratic
Transformation and the Internet.” (see Research above)
Served as Director of GMU application to the Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues program,
working with ICAR and other faculty. Preliminary proposal was selected to advice to
final stage application.
Initiated work on collaborative NSF grant on ethical issues regarding biosecurity.
Radio interview, NPR “Odyssey” program, on “Global Ethics” (one hour).
Worked with Claire Snyder (PIA) and Roger Paden to develop a new interdisciplinary minor in
political theory. Submitted for approval by the curriculum committee, fall, 2005.
Chaired panel on "Democracy Dialogue: Religion, Values, and Global Politics," sponsored by
The Democracy Project, GMU, April 12, 2005.
Worked with Springer publishers to develop a book series on Global Ethics.
Organized series of three lunchtime lectures on issues in global ethics, including speakers from
the National Science Foundation on global responsibilities of the NSF, from the
University of Edinburgh on human rights and emissions, and from Melbourne University
on law, human rights, and basic moral values, fall, 2005.
Stevens Institute of Technology:
Coordinator, Department of Philosophy, 2004 -05
Responsible for philosophy faculty, program, and advising
Member of the Council, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Head, Department of Humanities, 1988-1993:
Multidisciplinary department of humanities and the social sciences, composed of 14 full-time
faculty and 15 part-time faculty
Designed and introduced first B.A. degree programs (in history; literature; philosophy; science,
technology, and society; and individualized major) and double degree programs
combining this B.A. degree with the B.S. or B.E. degrees. Introduced minors (the first at
Stevens) in humanities and social science fields for engineering, science, management,
and liberal arts degree students.
Was awarded two curriculum development grants by the New Jersey Department of
Higher Education, 1988-90.
Instituted major curricular reform: New courses in philosophy, STS, social sciences,
languages, writing, interdisciplinary studies, and applied ethics.
Gender and Multicultural Studies integrated in core courses and developed as electives.
Helped institute required additional course in ethics for computer science majors.
ABET accreditation, 1992: Humanities Department program was evaluated as “the best the team
had ever seen.”
College and Department Activities:
George Mason University:
Director, Center for Global Ethics, 2004 - (see above); Departmental Hiring Committee, 2005-06; Chair, Departmental Promotion Committee, 2005-06; Committee on New Interdisciplinary Minor in Political Philosophy, 2005-06.
Stevens Institute of Technology:
Sexual Harassment Committee, 1998--; Middle States Accreditation Steering Committee; Dean Search Committee; Committee on Departmental Planning and Curriculum; Coordinator, Program in Philosophy; Department Head, Humanities and Social Sciences, 1988-1993 (see above); Academic Council, 1988-1993; Dean of the Faculty Search Committee; Provost Search Committee; Committee on Advanced Standing and Promotion; Chair, Appeals Committee; Organizer and Faculty Adviser, Stevens Philosophy Club
Swarthmore College:
Research Ethics Committee; Coordinator, Department of Philosophy Lecture Series; Departmental Representative, Chairs' Meetings, Budget; Library Committee
Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York:
Lehman College Senate; Departmental Colloquium Committee; Danforth Screening Committee; Departmental Recruitment Committee
State University of New York, College at New Paltz:
Committee on Goals and Plans of the College