CAROL C. GOULD
Curriculum Vitae
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 Political Science, and Director, Center for Global Ethics & Politics, Affiliated Professor of Women’s Studies, Temple University
Editor, Journal of Social Philosophy (Blackwell)
President, American Section, International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Executive Director, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Associate Chair, APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research; Chair, July 08-
Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy and Contemporary Social Issues
Previous Positions:
George Mason University, Professor of Philosophy and Government and Director of the Center for Global Ethics; affiliated Prof. of Women’s Studies, Prof. of Cultural Studies, 2004-06
European University Institute, Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Department of Political and Social Science, Florence, Italy, 2000
Stevens Institute of Technology, Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator, Dept. of Philosophy, 1980-2004 (Head, Humanities and Social Sciences, 1988-93)
Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, 1996-2004
C.R.E.A. (Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée), École Polytechnique, C.N.R.S., Chercheur associé, Paris, France, 1993-2000
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., 2001
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (France), 1993-94
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1993
NSF/Ethics and Values in Science and Technology Research Grant, PI ($150,000), 1985-87
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1978-79
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 UniversityPress, 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); Social Theory and Practice (Oct. 2005); Canadian Journal of Political Science (Oct., 2005); Democracy & Society (Feb., 2005), Radical Philosophy Review (2006); Res Publica, 12:4 (Dec., 2006), Political Theory (Oct. 2006), Philosophical Review (April, 2006); Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, no. 2 (Summer, 2007) http://www.cceia.org/resources/journal/21_2/reviews/003.html
Review Essay by Nickel and Bohman and response: Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 1, no. 2 (December, 2005), 207-238.
Book discussion by four critics and reply, in Philosophy Against Empire, Radical Philosophy Today, Volume 4, eds., Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006), 247-291.
Book discussion, forthcoming, The Good Society.
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:
“The Theory of Universal Human Rights: A Comment on Talbott,” Human Rights Review, Vol. 9, issue 2 (January, 2008, in press).
“Transnational Power, Coercion, and Democracy,” in Coercion, ed. David Reidy and Walter Riker (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008, in press).
“The New Global Ethics and its Three Faces,” in Ethics in an Era of Globalization, ed. Wim Vandekerckhove (Ashgate, 2008, in press).
“Reconceiving Autonomy and Universality as Norms for Global Democracy” in Global Democracy and its Difficulties, ed. Anthony Langlois and Karol Soltan (London: Routledge, 2008, in press).
“Women’s Human Rights as Equality through Difference,” in Gender Identity in Globalized Society, ed. Katherine Semler (Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2008, in press).
“Structuring Global Democracy: Political Communities, Universal Human Rights, and Transnational Representation,” in Democracy in a Globalized World, ed. Joakim Nergelius (Oxford: Hart, forthcoming 2008).
“Recognition in Redistribution: Care and Diversity in Global Justice,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spindel Conference Supplement, forthcoming 2008.
“Envisioning Transnational Democracy: Cross-Border Communities and Regional Human Rights Frameworks,” in Altered States: Politics after Democracy, ed. Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, Heather Gautney, & Neil Smith (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2008).
“Coercion, Care, and Corporations: Omissions and Commissions in Thomas Pogge’s Political Philosophy,” The Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 3, no. 3, December, 2007: 381-393.
“Negotiating the Global and the Local: Situating Transnational Democracy and Human Rights,” in Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century, ed. Deen K. Chatterjee (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 71-87.
“Transnational Solidarities,” Special Issue on Solidarity, ed. Carol Gould and Sally Scholz, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 38, no. 1, (Spring, 2007): 146-162.
“Global Democratic Transformation and the Internet,” Technology, Science and Social Justice, Social Philosophy Today, Volume 22, ed. John R. Rowan (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2007), 73-88.
“Ecological Democracy: Statist or Transnational?” Politics and Ethics Review, Vol. 2, no. 2 (fall, 2006): 119-126.
“Recognition, Care, and Solidarity,” Socialité et reconnaissance. Grammaires de l´humain, eds. Georg W. Bertram, Robin Celikates, Christophe Laudou, and David Lauer (Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2006), 243-256.
“Reply to my Critics” (Reply to four reviews of Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights—William McBride, Omar Dahbour, Kory Schaff, and David Schweickart), Philosophy against Empire, Radical Philosophy Today, Vol. IV, eds. Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006).
”Self-Determination beyond Sovereignty: Relating Transnational Democracy to Local Autonomy,” Special Issue on Democracy and Globalization, ed. Carol C. Gould and Alistair Macleod, Journal of Social Philosophy vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 44-60.
“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.
“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, Wiener Reihe, 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, 5th 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.
Papers Read (partial list):
Forthcoming:
Presidential Address, American Section, International Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, September 27, 2008.
Keynote Address, International Global Ethics Association, Melbourne, Australia, June 26-28. Additional invited talks in June 2008 at Australian National University, Melbourne; Macquarrie University, Sydney; University of Adelaide; and three other university venues.
Featured speaker, with former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali, at a conference on “Global Democracy: A Global Assessment,” University of Stockholm, Sweden, May 8-9, 2008.
“Global Democracy and Transnational Representation: Relating Political Communities and Universal Human Rights,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 26, 2008.
Invited panelist, Author meets Critics session: James Nickel’s Making Sense of Human Rights, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 22, 2008
Presented:
Commentary and Chair, Panel on Participation and Democracy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD, December 28, 2007.
“Recognition in Redistribution: Care and Diversity in Global Justice,” Spindel Conference on Feminist Ethics and Politics, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, October 19, 2007.
“Comment on Norman Daniels, ‘Bioethics as Applied Ethics’” Invited Commentary, Conference on Applied Ethics as Common Ground, Society for Applied Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, October 13, 2007.
“Women’s Human Rights as Equality through Difference,” Roundtable on Human Rights, Borders, and Global Governance, American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 30th, 2007; and as Keynote Address, FEAST Conference (Feminist Ethics and Social Theory), Clearwater Beach, FL, September 29, 2007.
“How Should Political Theorists Use Empirical Findings?” Invited Roundtable presentation, American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 30, 2007.
“Structuring Global Democracy: Political Communities, Universal Human Rights, and Transnational Representation,” Workshop on Democracy in a Globalized World, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, April 20, 2007; Law & Society Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 28th, 2007.and at the IVR World Congress, Special Workshop on Global Democracy and Global Exclusion, Krakow, Poland, August 2, 2007.
“Varieties of Global Responsibility: Reflections on Iris Marion Young’s Last Writings,” Special Session in Honor of Iris Marion Young, sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the Society for Women in Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, April 7, 2007.
Panelist, Special Session arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and the APA Committee on Inclusiveness: “Mapping the Terrain of Otherness: Multiculturalism, Globalism, and Alterity,” American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 29, 2006.
“Coercion, Care, and Corporations: Omissions and Commissions in Thomas Pogge’s Political Philosophy,” Conference on Pogge and his Critics, University of Newcastle, UK, November 20, 2006; the Political Philosophy Workshop, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, March 22, 2007; and at the IVR World Congress, Special Workshop on Global Justice, August 5, 2007.
“Transnational Power, Coercion, and Democracy,” AMINTAPHIL National Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, November 4, 2006; Annual Peace and Justice Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, February 20, 2007; and University of Pennsylvania, Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and the Department of Philosophy, March 15, 2007.
“Women’s Human Rights in a Culturally Diverse World,” Conference on Gender Identity in Globalized Society, Social Trends Institute, Barcelona, Spain, October 13-15, 2006; Politics Seminar, University of Edinburgh, November 17th, 2006; and Keynote Presentation, Conference on Women in a Global World: Feminist Values and Human Rights Issues, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, March 9, 2007.
“Democratizing Transnational Power in a Human Rights Framework,” North American Society for Social Philosophy, University of Victoria, British Columbia, August 4, 2006; and American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 1, 2006.
Three invited lectures to the Institute of Philosophy, Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam, June 27-30, 2006: “The Individual in Relation to Society,” “Human Production, Consumption, and Markets,” and “The Ethics of Care and Solidarity.”
“The Three Faces of Global Ethics,” Keynote Address, 1st International Conference on Global Ethics, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium, April 28th, 2006.
“The Theory of Universal Human Rights: A Comment on Talbott,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, Oregon, March 25, 2006.
“Conceptualizing Solidarity in Global Ethics,” Vanderbilt University, February 17, 2006, and The Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 1, 2006.
“Self-Determination beyond Sovereignty,” Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, Panel on “Globalization and Democracy,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, NY, December 28th, 2005.
“The Justification for Transnational Democracy,” North American Society for Social Philosophy, 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, 10th 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 14th, 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. 29th, 1999.
Universal Human Rights vs. Cultural Relativity: Reconcilable or Not?" Roundtable on Teaching International Ethics to Public Managers, 21st 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 5th, 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, XVIIIth 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 design and guidelines and wrote numerous “Notes from the Editor”
Instituted double-blind review process (blind to editor and to referees)
Invited and edited ten articles by distinguished philosophers for Inaugural Issue;edited submitted articles for publication
Found referees and supervised the process of reviewing