Scholarly Publications:
“The Dramatic Significance of Cephalus in Plato’s Republic” - Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 20, September, 1997.
“The Third Solitude - Making a Place for Aboriginal Justice” - The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, June, 1998.
“The Reinstatement Hearing in the Discipline Process - Ethics and Guidelines”, CLEAR Resource Brief (Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation), September, 1998.
“An Examination of Moral Action and Aesthetic Judgement in Kant’s Critical Philosophy”, Janus Head, March, 1999. - reprinted in Colloquia Manilana, Volume 7 1999.
“Judicial Hegemony: Dworkin’s Freedom’s Law and the Spectrum of Constitutional Democracies”, Ratio Juris, Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2002 (267-282).
“Campus Security and Privacy” (in collaboration with Mr. Larry Dénommé, Director of Security, Laurentian University), University Manager, Spring, 2000
“The Electronic Imagination: Requiem for a Narrative”, ETC: A Journal of General Semantics, Winter 2003.
Review of Robert Dahl, On Democracy, Canadian Journal of Political Science XXXIII/2 (2000)
Review of S.N. Eisenstadt, Paradoxes of Democracy; Fragility, Continuity, and
Change, Canadian Journal of Political Science. XXXIV/2 (2001)
Review of John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism, Canadian Journal of Political Science , XML/3 (2002)
Philosophy of Law, Centre for Continuing Education, Laurentian University revised, second edition, 2000 (correspondence course)
“Ethical Inquiry and Organisational Pathology: Three Paradigms of Decision Making”, Philosophy of Management, Volume 3, Number 1, 2003.
“Rhetoric, Harm and the Personification of Progress in Mill’s On Liberty” forthcoming, RATIO JURIS
Work in Progress
Broken Arrow: Narrative Under Siege, coauthored with Dr. Roger Spielmann [Department of Native Studies, University of Sudbury]
Mass Media Publications
“Cybertruth”, Opinion Page, The Toronto Star, February 26, 1998.
“For Clinton’s foes, it’s all about sin”, Editorial Page, The Toronto Star, December 17, 1998.
“Is it to be survival of the most electronic?”, Opinion Page, The Toronto Star, March 27, 2000
“Globalization and a Social Compact” - Editorial Page, The Sudbury Star, December 2, 1997.
“Canada Day”, Editorial Page, The Sudbury Star, July 1, 1998.
“Television News takes cue from Advertising”, Editorial Page, The Sudbury Star, March 4, 1999.
“Restraint on Liberty Acceptable”, Editorial Page, The Sudbury Star, May 27, 1999.
“Lifeguards needed at gene pool”, Perspective Page, The Sudbury Star, November 10, 1999
Conferences
2006 Financial Advisors Association of Canada
- conducted a workshop on conflicts of interest in financial planning.
2002 Northeastern Chapter of the Certified Financial Planners of Ontario
Presentation and Workshop on “Paternalism in Decision Making”.
2001 Presidential Lecture Series, University College of the Fraser Valley
Presented a paper entitled “Canadian Constitutional Philosophy”.
1998 Northern Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Association of Financial Planners
Presented a paper entitled “Professional Ethics and Codes of Conduct”
- conducted a workshop on ethical dilemmas in financial planning
1997 Second Annual Laurier Conference on Professional Ethics in Business, Health and Education, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Presented a paper entitled “Justice Across Borders”
1995-1996 Member of the Canadian Philosophical Association Program Executive Committee for the Annual Congress.
1990 Society for Legal Philosophy, Toronto.
Presented a paper on Duff’s Theory of Punishment - “Hate Literature, A Test Case.”
1989 Laurentian Faculty Colloquium.
Presented a paper on “Hegel and the End of History.”
1986 Laurentian Faculty Colloquium.
Presented a paper on John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty entitled “Mill and the Instrumental Value of Liberty.”
Academic Awards
1998 Laurentian University Teaching Excellence Award
This is a university-wide teaching award and it is made available annually to only one faculty member. Conferral of the award requires clear and definitive evidence of teaching excellence and superior scholarship.
1983-1985 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
1984 Atkinson College Research Award
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