Address:

Department of Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5 CANADA

Telephone:      (office) (902) 867-2341; (fax) (902) 867-3243

e-mail:             wsweet@stfx.ca

Present Appointment:

Professor of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University

University Education:

D.Ph.                                 Saint Paul University

Ph.D.                                 University of Ottawa

D.É.A.(sc. pol.)                  Université de Paris 1 - Sorbonne

L.Ph.                                  Saint Paul University

M.A.                                  University of Manitoba

M.A.(Ph./Rel.)                      Carleton University

S.T.B. magna cum laude                     Université Saint-Paul

B.Th. magna cum laude                       Université d’Ottawa & Université Saint-Paul B.Ph. magna cum laude                                  Saint Paul University

B.A.(Hons.) magna cum laude          University of Ottawa B.A.(Hons.Ph./Rel.)             Carleton University

Additional studies at: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Universität Wien (Austria); Centre Sèvres (Facultés jésuites, Paris); Collège International de Philosophie (Paris); Collège de France; Collège dominicain de philosophie et de théologie (Ottawa); Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Academic Appointments:

Professor (2000), Associate Professor (1995), Assistant Professor (1990), of Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University, 1990—

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Public Ethics), University of Ottawa, 2004—

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, 2004—

Adjunct Professor, MA/PhD programme, Collège dominicain de philosophie, Ottawa, 1999— Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, 2009— Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Religious Studies, St Thomas University, 2007-09.

Lecturer (part-time), Carleton University, 1989-90.

Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, St Thomas More College, 1980-83. Lecturer (part-time), University of Ottawa, 1979-80; 1983-85; 1987-88.

Lecturer (part-time), Collège de l’Outaouais, Campus Heritage, Québec, 1979-80; 1983-85.

Areas of Primary Scholarly Interest:

Late 19th and early 20th century Anglo-American and French Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion/Philosophical Theology; History of Political Thought; Ethics and Political Philosophy (esp. human rights); Bioethics; Intercultural Philosophy.

Visiting Posts:

Visiting Professor, School of Philosophy, “Professional Frontier Teacher Training” program, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, December 2018.

Visiting Professor (Overseas), Indian Council for Philosophical Research, 2016.

Visiting Professor / Jacek Woroniecki Memorial Lecturer in the Philosophy of Culture: Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, May 2012.

Visiting Professor / Stanislaw Kaminski Chair in Theoretical Philosophy: Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, May 2009.

Visiting Professor in the Philosophy of Culture: Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2007. Lokuang Chair of Philosophy and Culture: Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2004. Visiting Professor in Philosophy of Religion: Pontifical Athenaeum of Philosophy, Theology and Canon

Law/ Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Dharmaram College, Bangalore, India, August 2004.

Chercheur invité: Chaire UNESCO d’étude des fondements philosophiques de la justice et de la société démocratique, Université du Québec à Montréal, February-July 2001.

Visiting Professor in Comparative Philosophy: University of Pune, Pune, India, January 2001. Chercheur invité: Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale, Université catholique de Louvain,

Autumn 1996.

Visiting Scholar: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Summer 1996.

Funded Research:

Faculty Research Grant, Fr. Edo Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, 2014- 2017.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRCC] Grant for “Religion, Philosophy, and the Question of a Clash of Cultures,” 2010-2011.

Grant in Aid of Translation and Publication, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)/Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Washington, DC for my book Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights, 2010-2011.

SSHRCC Grant for “Migrating Texts and Traditions,” 2006-2007.

SSHRCC Standard Research Grant [410-2000-0056] for “The Legacy of British Idealism and the Philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet,” 2000-2004.

SSHRCC Grant for “Philosophy, Religion, and Democracy,” 2003-2004. SSHRCC Grant for “Science, Religion, and Philosophy,” 2002-2003.

SSHRCC Grant for “Philosophy, Pluralism, and Culture,” 2001-2002. SSHRCC Grant for “The Philosophy of History,” 2000-2001.

Mind Association (U.K.) Grant (on ‘Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism’), 1999 [with W.J. Mander, Oxford].

Faculty Research Grant, Fr. Edo Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, 2007- 2008.

Grant in Aid of Publication, Fr. Edo Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, 1998.

Faculty Research Grant, University Council for Research, St. Francis Xavier University, 1991 - 1992: “Contemporary Epistemologies, Pluralism and Religious Belief”

1993 - 1994: “Epistemology of Religion: 19th Century Foundations”

1995 - 1996: “Some Epistemological Issues in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy”

1996 - 1997: “Liberal Principles, Economic Justice and International Human Rights” [CC213] 1998 - 1999: “Bosanquet and Maritain: Studies in Political and Moral Philosophy”

1999 - 2000: “Comparative Philosophical Studies: Maritain, Idealism and Indian Philosophy” [CC253]

2002 - 2003: “British Idealism: Its Reception and Its Legacy” 2004 - 2005: “Idealism in India and South Africa”

Faculty Research Grant, Senate Research Committee, St. Thomas University 2008 - 2009: “Maritain and Natural Law”

Faculty Research Grant, University of Saskatchewan, St Thomas More College 1980 - 1981: “Individual and Collective Rights”

1981 - 1982: “English Idealism and Rights Theories”

Honours, Awards, Endowed Lectureships, Prizes

University Research Award (awarded bi-annually for outstanding research by a senior scholar), St Francis Xavier University, 2017-18.

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), 2017.

Aquinas Lecturer, St Peter’s Seminary, London, Ontario, January, 2017.

Named Visiting (Overseas) Professor, Indian Council for Philosophical Research, 2015-16. Named Président d’honneur, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, 2016.

University Community Outreach Award, St Francis Xavier University, 2015-16. Named Presidente d’onore, Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain (Rome), 2014. Elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS), 2013.

L.D. Swamikannu Pillai Endowment Lecturer, 2013-14, University of Madras (India), February, 2014. Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), 2013.

William Rossner SJ, Annual Lecturer in Philosophy, Rockhurst University (Kansas City, Missouri), 22 October 2012.

Pedro Arrupe SJ, Endowment Lecturer, Satya Nilayam Research Institute (Sacred Heart College), Madras / Chennai (India), 3 August 2012.

Jay Newman Memorial Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, Canadian Theological Society, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2012.

Jacek Woroniecki Memorial Lecturer, Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), May 2012.

Nimishakkavi K. Subbaiah Naidu Endowment Lecturer 2011-12, University of Madras (India) [declined] Alan Milne Memorial Lecturer, University of Durham (England), November 2010.

Neil MacGill Memorial Lecturer, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB), November 2010. Political Studies Association (UK) Specialist Activities Fund Lecturer, (Edinburgh, Scotland), March 2010. Stanislaw Kaminski Memorial Lecturer, Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), May 2009.

Aquinas Lecturer, St Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, 2008.

Featured speaker, Breakfast on the Hill Speaker Series, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Centre Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON, May 2007.

Lokuang Chair of Philosophy and Culture, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei (Taiwan), December 2004. Principal William Miller Endowment Lecturer, 2004-05, University of Madras (India), August 2004.

Golden Jubilee Lecturer, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (India), August 2004.

Jean Mathieu Soulerin Memorial Lecturer, University of St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, ON, November 2002.

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Endowment Lecturer, Madras Christian College, Chennai (India), August 2002. President’s Award for Research, St Francis Xavier University, 2000-01.

Dharma Endowment Lecturer, Dharmaram College (Bangalore, India), November 2001. Nimishakkavi K. Subbaiah Naidu Endowment Lecturer, University of Madras, August 1999. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecturer, University of Wales, Cardiff, March 1999.

Jesuit Speakers Series Lecturer, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, February 1998. Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Distinguished Visitor Programme, November-December 1996. Professor Henry Herbert Glassmacher Lecturer, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, October 1994.

University Research/Publishing/Teaching Award, St. Francis Xavier University,

awarded annually: 1992-1996, 1998-2001, 2002-2007, 2010-2018.

Included in Contemporary Authors, 217 (2004)

Included in Who’s Who in the World, 18th, 27th editions, 2001, 2010.

Included in Who’s Who in America, 56th  – 58th, 64th  editions, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010. Included in Who’s Who in American Education, 6th and subsequent editions, 2003; 2010. Included in Canadian Who’s Who, 2000 and subsequent editions.

Included in Who's Who in International Organizations, 1999 and subsequent editions.

Administrative Appointments:

Vice President (Academic), St Thomas University, 2007-08.

Director, Centre for Philosophy, Theology, and Cultural Traditions, St Francis Xavier University, 2002-present Chair, Department of Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University, 2003-07; 2017-present

Co-ordinator (2006-07; 2010-2016) and Advising Faculty member, Catholic Studies Program, St Francis Xavier University, 1997-2007; 2010-present.

Director, Bl. John XXIII Centre in Catholic Thought, St Thomas University, 2008-09. Chair, University Graduate Studies, St Francis Xavier University, 2005-07.

Chair [Acting], Department of Philosophy, St. Thomas University, 2008-09. Co-ordinator, Catholic Studies Program, St Thomas University, 2008-09.

Executive Positions with Scholarly or Professional Associations (Current):

President, World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies, 2008-present. Director, Collection “Philosophica,” University of Ottawa Press, 2016-present Vice-President/President-elect, Canadian Theological Society, 2018-present.

Vice President (Research) (2010-present) and Member of the Board of Directors, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy [Washington, DC], 2005-present.

President (1999-2006), President pro tempore (2017-present), and Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, 1996-present.

Chair, Committee on Intercultural Philosophy, Federation internationale des sociétés de philosophie, 2008-present.

Member, Consiglio di Amministrazione, Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain (Rome), 2014-present Chair, Jay Newman Memorial Lecture Committee, Canadian Theological Society, 2014-2018.

Committee Appointments (Current):

Chair, Department of Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University, 2003-07; 2017-present Chair, Honorary Degrees Committee, St Francis Xavier University, 2012-present.

Chair, Presidential Committee for the Christian Culture Lecture Series, St Francis Xavier University, 2010-present.

Chair, Ethics Committee, Nova Scotia Health Authority (Eastern Zone), 2009-2016; 2016-present [from 2000-2016, designated ‘Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority”], Member: 1999 - present.

Chair, Local Ethics Team, Antigonish/Guysborough/Strait region, Nova Scotia Health Authority (Eastern Zone), 2017-present.

Vice-Chair (2018-19) and Member of the University Senate, St Francis Xavier University, 1992-95; 2001- 04; 2006-07; 2010-13; 2014-16; 2017-present (formerly Chair: 1995-96; 2011-12)

Member, Committee on Academic Reviews, St Francis Xavier University, 2017-present Chair, Departmental Evaluation Committee, Department of Philosophy, 2016-present. Ethics Consultant, St Martha’s Regional Hospital, 2000-present.

Member, St Martha's Regional Hospital Mission Assurance Advisory Council, 1999-2005; 2011-present. Member, Ethics Working Group, Catholic Health Alliance of Canada, 2014-present

Theses:

Idealism and Rights,

D.Ph. thesis, Saint Paul University, xiii + 262 pp.

The Foundations of Rights in the Political Thought of Bernard Bosanquet,

Ph.D. thesis, University of Ottawa, x + 421 pp. Director: L. Armour

Une analyse idéaliste des droits de la personne,

D.É.A. thesis, Département de science politique, Université de Paris 1 - Sorbonne, vi + 208 pp. Director: Luc Ferry

Duns Scotus’ Argument for the Existence of a First Efficient Cause,

M.A. thesis, Carleton University, ix + 217 pp. Director: D. Dubrule

Languages:

Bilingual: English - French

Fluency: German (ZDaF, Goethe Institut; Zeugnis, Universität Wien) Basic reading ability: Classical Latin, New Testament Greek, Spanish.

Publications:

Summary (to January 1, 2019):

Books: 4

Books (as Editor): 35+

ArticlesinRefereed Publications:  130+ Encyclopedia Articles and Short Introductions: 125+ Papers in Published Proceedings: 15

Book Reviews and Critical Notices: 35+ Papers Read: 230+

Details:

1. a.  Books:

Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012; Leiden: Brill, 2015 [with Hendrik Hart].

(Reviewed in Sophia; Studies in Religion /Sciences religieuses; Dialogue; Etudes maritainiennes/Maritain Studies; Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions; and Science et esprit. Symposia on this book have also been organised by the Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, Montreal, and by the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto.)

Religious Belief: The Contemporary Debate, Bangalore: Dharmaram Publishers, 2003. [The 2001 Dharma Endowment Lectures]

(Reviewed in International Journal of Philosophical Studies; Sophia; Studies in Religion /Sciences religieuses; Journal of Dharma; Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions)

Religion, Science, and Non-Science, Bangalore: Dharmaram Publishers, 2003. Second edition, 2016. (Reviewed in Sophia; Religious Studies/Sciences religieuses; Journal of Dharma)

Idealism and Rights, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997; Paperback edition, 2005. (Reviewed in Philosophy in Review; History of Political Thought; Dialogue; British Journal of the History of Philosophy; Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain; Bradley Studies; Indian Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophia (Israel); a symposium on this book, organised by the Political Studies Association (U.K.), British Idealism Specialist Group / Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, was published in Collingwood and British Idealist Studies [Vol. IX, 2002].)

- a Chinese translation (by Tao Huang) is forthcoming (2019) from Commercial Press in Beijing.

b.   Books (as Editor):

Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics, Leuven (Belgium): Peeters: expected publication date: 2019].

Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Volume VI [Preface to Moral Philosophy, Preface to Metaphysics, Lectures on Natural Law], Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press [expected publication date: 2019].

Philosophy Re-engaging Cultures and Ways of Life, Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018.

当代哲学咨询：基督教哲学和人性理论 [Christianity, Humanity and the Meaning of Life], thematic issue of Universitas 哲學與文化月刊 [Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture]. No. 493. Taipei: Fu Jen University, 2015. [ed., with Cristal Huang]

 English version: Care of Self and Meaning of Life: Asian and Christian Reflections. Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2016. [ed., with Cristal Huang]

What is Intercultural Philosophy?, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2014.

Ideas under Fire: Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013; paperback, 2017 [ed., with Jonathan Lavery and Louis Groarke]

Philosophy Emerging from Culture, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2013. [ed., with G.F. McLean and O. Blanchette].

Modern Political Thought from Hobbes to Maritain, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2012.

Migrating Texts and Traditions, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012.

Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2011 [ed., with Roberto Papini and Luigi Bonanate].

Cultural Clash and Religion [two thematic issues of Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, Vol. 6 (2010) and Vol.

7 (2011)]

 Revised and republished as Cultural Clash and Religion, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2015.

Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism, London/New York: Continuum, 2010.

Freedom of Religion, a collection of critical essays, Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2010. [revised version of 2006, below, with 8 additional chapters]

The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists, Essex, UK: Imprint Academic, 2009.

Rethinking the Role of Philosophy in the Global Age, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2009 [ed., with Pham Van Duc].

The Dialogue of Cultural Traditions: A Global Perspective, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2008 [ed., with Tomonobu Imamichi, George F. McLean, et alii].

Religion and the Challenges of Science, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2007; Kindle ed., 2013 [ed., with the assistance of Richard Feist].

Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Instructor's Manual to accompany Invitation to Critical Thinking (1st Canadian edition) by Joel Rudinow, Vincent E. Barry, and Mark Letteri, Nelson/Thomson Pub Co., 2007.

Philosophy of Religion, Volume 8 of The Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul 2003), Ankara: Philosophical Association of Turkey, 2006 / Distributed by the Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.

Foundational Problems in Philosophy by Arthur Ritchie Lord, transcribed and edited with an Introduction, notes, and annotations, Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2006 [ed., with Errol E. Harris].

The History of Philosophy from Descartes to Hegel by Arthur Ritchie Lord, transcribed and edited with an Introduction, notes, and annotations, Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2006 [ed., with Errol E. Harris].

The Principles of Politics by Arthur Ritchie Lord, reprinted, with an Introduction and notes, and annotations, Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2006 [ed., with Errol E. Harris].

Freedom of Religion, a collection of critical essays, Bangalore: Centre for the Study of World Religions [thematic issue of the Journal of Dharma, 2006].

• Revised, with 8 additional chapters: Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2010.

Politics, Ethics, and the Challenges to Democracy in the 'New Independent States', Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2005 [ed., with Tinatin Bochorishvili and Daniel Ahern].

Approaches to Metaphysics, Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers, 2004; Paperback ed., Springer, 2013.

The Philosophy of History: a re-examination, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2004; reprinted Routledge Publishers, 2016.

• Chinese translation: 历史哲学:一种再审视, tr. Xiaowei Wei and Fang Zhu, Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 2008.

Early Responses to British Idealism, editor, 3 vols., Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004 [Associate Editor on Vol. 1: Colin Tyler; Associate and Co-editor on Vol. 3: Carol Keene]

“To the Mountain”: essays in honour of Professor George F. McLean, HsinChuang, Taiwan: Fu Jen Catholic University Press, 2004 [ed., with Hu Yeping].

Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003.

Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy - 1883-1922, 3 vols., with Introductions, notes, and annotations, Bristol (UK): Thoemmes Press, 2003.

Husserl and Stein, Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2003 [ed., with Richard Feist].

Philosophy, Pluralism, and Culture, Aylmer, QC: Editions du Scribe, 2002.

British Idealism and Aesthetics [thematic issue of Bradley Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2001)].

Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001; reprinted London: Routledge, 2017.

Natural Law: reflections on theory and practice by Jacques Maritain, ed. with Introductions and notes, South Bend, IN: St Augustine’s Press [distributed by University of Chicago Press], 2001, 106 pages. Second printing, corrected, 2003.

• Chinese translation: 自然法理论与实践的反思, [雅克—马里旦 (作者), 威廉—斯威特 (编者), tr. Ju Chengwei 鞠成伟 (译者)] Beijing: China Legal Xinhua Publishing House

[中国法制出版社], 2009.

The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays by Bernard Bosanquet, ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations, South Bend, IN: St Augustine’s Press [distributed by University of Chicago Press], 2001 [with Gerald F. Gaus].

The Bases of Ethics, Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2000.

The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet, 20 volumes, with Introductions, notes, and annotations, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1999.

God and Argument / Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique, Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press, 1999.

The Changing Faces of Femininity, a collection of critical essays, Bangalore: Centre for the Study of World Religions, 1998 (thematic issue of the Journal of Dharma, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, (1998)) [ed., with Thomas Manninezhath].

Religion, Modernity and Post Modernity, a collection of critical essays, Bangalore: Centre for the Study of World Religions, 1997 (thematic issue of the Journal of Dharma, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (1997).)

Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies, Vols. XI (1995), XII (1996), XIII (1997), XIV (1998), XV (1999),

XVI (2000), XVII (2001), XVIII (2002), XIX (2003), XX (2004), XXI (2005) [with WJ Schultz],

XXII (2006) [with WJ Schultz], Ottawa, ON: Canadian Jacques Maritain Association.

Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies, Vol. X (1994), Ottawa, ON: Canadian Jacques Maritain Association [with Léon Charette].

La philosophie de la religion à la fin du vingtième siècle, Ottawa, ON: Editions Legas, 1993. (thematic issue of

Carrefour: revue de réflexion interdisciplinaire, vol. 15, no. 1 [1993]).

c.     Books under contract and in preparation:

British Idealism and Indian Philosophy: 1858-1947, in preparation.

Studies in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain, Chinese translation, in preparation.

d.   Articles in refereed publications:

“Forgotten Philosophies,” Science et esprit, Vol. 70 (2018): 205-229.

“Evidentialism, Fideism, and John Henry Newman,” Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 7 (2018): 75-80.

“Can there be Genuine Dialogue between Religion and Democracy?,” Journal of Dharma, Vol 42 (3) (2017): 371-392.

“The Relevance of a Catholic Philosophy of Education,” in Civil Society, Education, and Human Formation: Philosophy's Role in a Renewed Understanding of Education, ed. J. Tālivaldis Ozoliņš (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 31-48.

“Ecological Citizenship and Green Burial in China,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29(6) (2016): 985-1001. DOI 10.1007/s10806-016-9643-6 [with Chen Zeng and Qian Cheng].

“The Moral Self and the Metaphysical Self,” British Idealism and the Concept of the Self, ed. W.J. Mander and

S. Panagakou (Basingstoke. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 179-200.

“[Introduction] Realism, Realisms, and Anti-Realisms,” in Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, Vol. 11 (2015): 1-12.

“Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of Life,”

□ In Chinese, as [在基督性與人文性共融下哲學的生命意義], in Universitas [哲學與文化月刊Che hsüeh yü wen hua]- Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture [Fu Jen University], June 2015. [special theme: Christianity, Humanity and the Meaning of Life], pp. 19-36.

 In English, in Care of Self and Meaning of Life: Asian and Christian Perspectives (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2015), pp. 15-36.

“[Introduction] Philosophy, Religion, and Care of Self,” in Care of Self and Meaning of Life: Asian and Christian Perspectives (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2015), pp. 1-13.

“Leslie Armour: Metaphysician, Philosopher of Community, Idealist,” Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Vol. 21 (2015): 1-23. [with Elizabeth Trott]

« Cultural Difference and Philosophical Dialogue, » in Sanskrit Poetics in the Post Modern Scenario – Festschrift Presented to Dr C.M. Neelakandhan, ed. Dharmaraj Adat (Delhi: New Bharatiya Book Corp., 2015), pp. 27- 31.

“Anti-politics, Maritain, and Change of Culture,” in Notes et documents: pour une recherche personnaliste, ns No. 32/33 (2015): 36-46.

“Culture, Religion, and Human Rights,” in Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, Vol. 10 (2014): 73-93.

 An expanded version of this paper appeared as “Human Rights, Religious Culture, and Dialogue,” in Religion and Culture in Dialogue: East and West Perspectives, ed. J. Tālivaldis Ozoliņš (New York: Springer, 2016), pp. 181-203.

“The Return to Realism,” in Notes et documents: pour une recherche personnaliste, ns No. 30 (2014): 29-34. “Body and Embodiment” and “Embodiment and the Person,” Journal of the Madras University – Humanities

(2014) [publication of the journal was suspended after corrected proofs submitted].

 A signnficantly abbreviated and revised version was published as “Transhumanism and the Metaphysics of the Human Person,” Science et esprit, Vol. 67, no. 3 (2015), pp. 359-372.

 A signnficantly and revised version was translated into Chinese and published as

“转化人类主义与人格的形而上学” [Transhumanism and the Metaphysics of the Human

Person], in 哲学分析 [Philosophical Analysis, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences], Vol. 6, No. 4 (August 2015), pp. 99-108.

 An abbreviated and revised version of “Embodiment and the Person” was published as “Personhood and Property,” in Philosophy and the Life-world, ed. He Xirong, Peter Jonkers & Shi Yongze (Washington, DC: CRVP, 2017), pp. 65-78.

 “Body and Embodiment” was published in its entirety in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 44 (2017): 79-101; “Embodiment and the Person” was published in its entirety in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 45 (2018).

“British Idealist Philosophy of Religion,” Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, ed.

W.J.    Mander (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 560-584.

“La philosophie de l’art chez Jacques Maritain” [The Philosophy of Art of Jacques Maritain], in Universitas [哲學與文化月刊 Che hsüeh yü wen hua]- Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture [Fu Jen University], 479 (April 2014): 95-102.

 Translated into Italian, as “La filosofia dell’arte di Jacques Maritain,” in Per qualle bellezza: l’estetica di Jacques Maritain e le arti della contemporaneità, ed Cecilia De Carli and Giovanni Botta, (Roma: Edizioni Studium, 2014), pp. 17-22.

“What is Beauty?,” Etudes maritainiennes /Maritain Studies, Vol XXIX (2013), pp. 15-25.

 Reprinted, with minor revisions, in: Sztuka i realism - Art and Reality - Ars et Res: Księga pamiątkowa z okazji Jubileuszu urodzin i pracy naukowej na KUL Profesora Henryka Kieresia, edited by T. Duma, A. Maryniarczyk, P. Sulenta (Lublin: Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu i Wydział Filozofii KUL, 2014), pp. 253-263.

“Love and Dignity,” in Love and Friendship: Maritain and the Tradition, ed. Montague Brown (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2013): 130-144.

“John Henry Newman and the Prospects for a Dialogue among Faith, Reason, and Culture,” Lumen: International Journal of Catholic Studies, Vol. 1, no. 2 (2013): 8-27.

“Philosophy under Apartheid,” in Ideas Under Fire, ed. J. Lavery, L. Groarke, and W. Sweet, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2013, pp. 251-270.

“Is the ‘Intelligibility of Religious Language’ Debate Dead?” [Jay Newman Memorial Lecture], Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. 28.2 (2012): 291-308.

 Reprinted in Whence Intelligibility?, ed. L. Perron (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2014), pp. 159-176.

“Autorytet z perspektywy Kanady [Authority in Crisis: a Canadian perspective],” in Czlowiek w kulturze

[Man in Culture], issue on Czy i jaki autorytet?, No. 22 (2011-12):. 127-145.

“Multiculturalism, Hospitality, and the Canadian Context,” in Hospitality: A Paradigm of Interreligious and Intercultural Encounter, ed. Friedrich Reiterer, Chibueze C. Udeani, and Klaus Zapoyoczky, New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012, pp. 205-218.

“Models of Religious Freedom,” Science et esprit, Vol. 64 (2012): 157-177.

“What Does it Mean for Texts and Traditions to Migrate?,” in Migrating Texts and Traditions, ed. William Sweet, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012, pp. 1-17.

“Afterword: Migration: Explanation, Analysis, and Directions,” in Migrating Texts and Traditions, ed. William Sweet, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012, pp. 331-336.

“技术，社会现实和哲学” [Technology, Social Reality, and Philosophy], Journal of Xi’an International University, No 33 (2012), pp. 1-4.

“Larmer on Miracles, Models, and the Laws of Nature,” Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2012), pp. 152-159.

“‘Faith and Reason’ and Intercultural Philosophy,” in Thomism and Asian Cultures: Celebrating 400 Years of Dialogue across Civilizations, ed. Alfredo P. Co and Paolo A. Bolaños (Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2012), pp. 43-54.

 Reprinted in part, with revisions, as “The Prospect of Intercultural Philosophy,” in What is Intercultural Philosophy?, ed. William Sweet (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2014), pp. 161-171.

“Rights after ‘the Rights Revolution’,” Science et esprit, Vol. 63, No. 3 (2011): 333-348 and Vol. 64, No. 1

(2012): 25-46.

“British Idealism and its ‘Empire’,” Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Vol. 18 (2011): 7-36.

 Reprinted, with revisions, as “British Idealism as a Migrating Tradition,” in Migrating Texts and Traditions, ed. William Sweet, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2012, pp. 79-103.

“Hospitality, Ethics, and Multiculturalism,” in Φιλοσοφία: International Journal of Philosophy [Manila, Philippines], Vol. 41 (2011): 41-50.

 Reprinted, with minor revisions, as “Hospitality and Ethics,” in Hospitality: A Paradigm of Interreligious and Intercultural Encounter, ed. Freidrich Reiterer, Chibueze C. Udeani, and Klaus Zapoyoczky (New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 115-124.

 Reprinted, with minor revisions, as “Hospitality, Diversity, and Unity,” in Building Community in a Mobile/Global Age: migration and hospitality, ed. John P. Hogan, Vensus A. George, Corazon T. Toralba (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2013), pp. 17-24.

 Reprinted, with minor revisions, as “Hospitality, Diversity, and Unity,” in Diversity in Unity: Harmony in a Global Age, ed. He Xirong and Yu Xuanmeng, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2015), pp. 185-192.

“Biotechnologies and Human Dignity,” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society (New York: Sage Publications) Vol. 31 (2011): 6-16 [with J. Masciulli].

“Rethinking the History of Modern Philosophy” in Философия в диалоге культур [Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures], ed. B.V. Oreshin and E.D. Gorzhevskaya (Moscow: Progress-Tradition Publishers (Russian Academy of Sciences), 2010), pp. 1291-1302.

“R.F.A. Hoernlé and Idealist Liberalism in South Africa,” South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 29 (2010) pp. 118-134.

“Schellenberg and the State of the Philosophy of Religion Today,” Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. 26 (2010), pp. 85-94.

“Proving Human Rights,” Science et esprit, Vol. 62 (2010), pp. 293-312.

“Cultural Clash and Religion: Some Philosophical Reflections,” in Cultural Clash and Religion [thematic issue of Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, Vol. 6 (2010)], pp. 1-19.

□        Revised and abbreviated as “Religion within the limits of democracy: some models for Southeast Europe,” in Synthesis Philosophica (issue on Philosophical Trends in Southeast Europe), Vol. 27/2 (2012), pp. 257-268.

□        Reprinted in Cultural Clash and Religion, ed. William Sweet (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2015): 1-18.

“Technology, Religion, and Human Destiny,” in Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity, ed. Richard Feist, Chantal Beauvais, and Rajesh Shukla (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010), pp. 192-205.

“Catholicism, Freedom of Conscience, and Democracy,” Etudes maritainiennes /Maritain Studies, Vol. XXV (2009), pp. 3-19.

“Idealism, Ethics, and Social and Political Thought,” in The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists, ed. William Sweet (Essex, UK: Imprint Academic, 2009), pp. 1-30.

“British Idealism and Ethical Thought in South Africa and India,” in The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists, ed. William Sweet (Essex, UK: Imprint Academic, 2009), pp. 289-331.

“Human Rights, Social Responsibilities, and the Preservation of Cultures,” in Christianity, Culture and the Contemporary World: Challenges and New Paradigms, ed. Edward Alam (Louaize, Lebanon: Notre Dame University, 2009), pp. 19-30.

□        Reprinted, with revisions, as “Cultural Integrity and Obligations,” in Cultural Tradition and Social Progress [Chinese Philosophical Studies, XXVIII], ed. He Xirong, Yu Xuanmeng, Yu Xintian, Yu Wujing, and Yang Junyi (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2011), pp. 23-35.

“Intercultural Philosophy and the Phenomenon of Migrating Texts and Traditions,” in Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy, ed. Hans Lenk (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2009), pp. 39-58.

□        Reprinted in part, with revisions, as “The Project of Intercultural Philosophy,” in What is Intercultural Philosophy?, ed. William Sweet (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2015), pp. 1-18.

□        Reprinted, with minor revisions, as “Migrating Texts and Traditions in Intercultural Philosophy,” in Universalism, Relativism, and Intercultural Philosophy, ed. Joseph C. Achike Agbakoba and Anthony C. Ajah (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2016), pp. 211-233.

“What Remains of Modernity? Philosophy and Culture in the Transition to a Global Era,” in Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, Vol. 5 (2008-9): 119-136.

□        Translated into Vietnamese as “Thời hiện ñại còn lại những gì? Triết học và văn hoá trong tiến trình tới kỷ nguyên toàn cầu”, in Tạp Chí Triết học [Journal of Philosophy, published by the Institute of Philosophy, Vietnamese Academy of Sciences], Nos. 6 and 7 (229 and 230) (2010).

□        Reprinted in Symposion: Revistă de Ştiinţe Socio–Umane (Romania), Tomul VI, Numărul 2 (12), 2008, pp. 357-373.

□        Reprinted in Philosophy Emerging from Culture, ed. W. Sweet. G.F. McLean, T. Imamichi, and W. Park (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2013), pp. 25-41.

“I diritti umani nell’etica, nel diritto, nella politica,” [in Italian] in Dialogo Interculturale e Diritti Umani: la Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani - Genesi, evoluzione e problemi odierni (1948-2008), ed. Roberto Papini and Luigi Bonanate (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009), pp. 65-95.

□        Translated into Spanish as “Los derechos humanos en el ética, et derecho y la politica”, in Los derechos humanos y el diálogo interculturel, ed. Roberto Papini and Luigi Bonanate (Buenos Aires: Club de lectores, 2010), pp. 65-96.

□        In English as “Human Rights in Ethics, Law, and Politics”, in Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights, ed. Roberto Papini, Luigi Bonanate and William Sweet, (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2011), pp. 31-53.

“Introduction: What is it to ‘rethink’ philosophy in a global age?,” in Rethinking the Role of Philosophy in the Global Age, ed. William Sweet and Pham Van Duc (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2009), pp. 1-9.

“Maritain, Just War Theory, and Responding to Campaigns of Terror,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. XXIV (2008): 99-114.

“Persons and Communities,” in The Dialogue of Cultural Traditions: A Global Perspective, ed. William Sweet [with Tomonobu Imamichi, George F. McLean, et alii.] (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2008), pp. 225-229.

“Introduction: A Dialogue of Cultural Traditions,” in The Dialogue of Cultural Traditions: A Global Perspective, ed. William Sweet [with Tomonobu Imamichi, George F. McLean, et alii.] (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2008), pp. 1-17 [with Robert Magliola].

“Virtue Ethics as an Alternative to Deontological and Consequential Reasoning in the Harm Reduction Debate,” International Journal of Drug Policy (Special issue on “Ethics and Values of Harm Reduction”), Vol. 19, Iss. 1 (2008): 52-58 [with Timothy Christie and Louis Groarke].

◻         Reprinted in Biomedical Ethics, 3rd ed., ed. J. Fisher, J.S. Russell, A. Browne, L Burkholder (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 451-457.

“God, Sprigge, and Idealist Philosophy of Religion,” in Consciousness, Reality and Value: Festschrift in Honour of Prof. T.L.S. Sprigge, ed. Leemon McHenry and Pierfrancesco Basile (Frankfurt / Paris: Ontos Verlag, 2007), pp. 181-210.

“Religious Belief, Meaning and Argument,” Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2007): 41-64.

“William James, the Transcendent, and the ‘Right to Believe,’” Budhi [Ateneo de Manila, Philippines], Vol. XI (2007): 183-214.

□        Reprinted, with minor revisions, in Essays on Religious and Political Experience, ed. R. Shukla and R. Feist (Leuven: Peeters, 2016), pp. 141-170.

“Rediscovering Bosanquet,” Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, ed. William Sweet (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 3-29.

“Rethinking Relations between Science and Religion,” in Religion and the Challenges of Science, ed. William Sweet and Richard Feist (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 1-15.

“Bàn về vai trò của triết học trong thời ñại toàn cầu hoá” [“On the Role of Philosophy in the Age of Globalization”] in Triết học trong kỷ nguyên toàn cầu = Philosophy in the global age, ed. Phạm Văn Đức and Đặng Hữu Toàn (Hanoi: Khoa học Xã hội, 2007). [in Vietnamese]

□        In English: “On the Role of Philosophy in the Age of Globalization,” in Rethinking the Role of Philosophy in the Global Age, ed. by William Sweet and Pham Van Duc (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2009), pp. 13-17.

“Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism,” in Philosophy and Culture(s), Volume 7 of The Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul 2003), ed. Venant Cauchy (Ankara: Philosophical Association of Turkey, 2007), pp. 3-8.

“Arthur Ritchie Lord: A Bio-Bibliographical Sketch,” in Foundational Problems in Philosophy: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Religion, by Arthur Ritchie Lord [The Complete Works of Arthur Ritchie Lord, Vol. 1], ed. Errol

E. Harris and William Sweet (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2006).

“Lord, Logic, and the History of Philosophy,” in The History of Philosophy from Descartes to Hegel, by Arthur Ritchie Lord [The Complete Works of Arthur Ritchie Lord, Vol. 2], ed. Errol E. Harris and William Sweet (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2006).

“Lord’s The Principles of Politics,” in A Reprint Edition of The Principles of Politics [The Complete Works of Arthur Ritchie Lord, Vol. 3], ed. Errol E. Harris and William Sweet (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2006).

“Philosophy of Religion Today,” in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 4 of The Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul 2003), ed. William Sweet (Ankara: Philosophical Association of Turkey, 2006 / Distributed by the Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA), pp. xi-xxxv.

“Philosophy in Canada,” in Philosophy Worldwide: Current Situation: Materials for International Cooperation and Philosophical Encounters, ed. Maija Kule (Riga: University of Latvia / Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie, 2006), pp. 13-31; second (expanded) edition, 2007, pp. 13-31.

□        Vietnamese translation: “Triết học Canaña” in Triết học trong kỷ nguyên toàn cầu = Philosophy in the global age, ed. Phạm Văn Đức and Đặng Hữu Toàn (Hanoi: Khoa học Xã hội, 2007).

“Freedom of Religion and Religious Heritage,” in Prajna Vihara [journal of philosophy and religion, Assumption University of Thailand], Vol. 6, No. 2 (2005), pp. 1-24.

□        Reprinted, with major revisions, as “The Right to Freedom of Religion in Multicultural Democracies,” in Globalisation – Cultures – Religions: Globalisierung – Kulturen – Religionen, ed. Chibueze Udeani and Claude Ozankom [Series: Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions] (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2006), pp. 267-289.

“馬里旦自然律之形上學與知識論基礎” [The Metaphysical and Epistemological Foundations of Natural Law in Jacques Maritain], [in Chinese] in Universitas [Che hsüeh yü wen hua] - Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture [Fu Jen University], 388 (September 2006): 15-33; 83-98

“Jacques Maritain and Freedom of Conscience,” in Freedom of Religion, thematic issue of the Journal of Dharma, Vol. 31 [2006], pp. 29-43.

 Revised and expanded in Freedom of Religion, ed. William Sweet (Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2010), pp. 54-68.

“Freedom of Religion: from Toleration to Human Right,” in Freedom of Religion, thematic issue of the

Journal of Dharma, Vol. 31 [2006], pp. 3-28.

 Revised and expanded in Freedom of Religion, ed. William Sweet (Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2010), pp. 7-36.

“A.R. Lord and Later British Idealist Political Philosophy,” British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2005): 48-66.

“British Idealism and the Political Philosophy of T.H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, R. G. Collingwood, and Michael Oakeshott,” British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2005): 97-125 [with David Boucher, James Connelly, Stamatoula Panagakou, and Colin Tyler].

“Politics and Ethics through Transitions,” in Politics, Ethics, and the Challenges to Democracy in the 'New Independent States', ed. William Sweet, Tinatin Bochorishvili, and Daniel Ahern (Washington, DC: CRVP Press, 2005), pp. 1-19 [with Daniel Ahern].

“Kant, Rights, and the General Will,” in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXXI (2004): 333-358

“The Philosophy of History: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow,” The Philosophy of History: a re-examination,

ed. William Sweet (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2004), pp. 1-23.

“Taking Metaphysics Seriously,” in Approaches to Metaphysics, ed. William Sweet (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), pp. 3-22.

“Edith Stein: Knowledge, Mysticism and the Person,” in Christian Mysticism, ed. Doumit Salameh (Louaize, Lebanon: Notre Dame University Press, 2004), pp. 25-46.

“Contemporary Culture and Appeals to Human Rights,” in To the Mountain: essays in honour of Professor George F. McLean, eds. William Sweet and Hu Yeping (Hsinchuang, Taiwan: Fu Jen University Press, 2004), pp. 247-266.

□        Reprinted, with minor revisions, in Politics, Ethics, and the Challenges to Democracy in the 'New Independent States', ed. Tinatin Bochorishvili, William Sweet, and Daniel Ahern (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2005).

“George Francis McLean: A Philosopher in the Service of Humanity,” in To the Mountain: essays in honour of Professor George F. McLean, eds. William Sweet and Hu Yeping (Hsinchuang, Taiwan: Fu Jen University Press, 2004), pp. 1-20 [with Hu Yeping].

□        Reprinted in Prajña Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 5, no. 1, (January-June 2004): pp. 1-17.

□        Reprinted as "喬治 佛朗西斯 麥克林：一個服務於人類的哲學家 ["George Francis McLean: A philosopher in the service of humanity]," in文化傳承與中國的未來 [Cultural Heritage and the Future of China], eds Yú Chūnsōng, Zōu Shīpéng, and Hú Yèpíng (Jiangxi People's

Publishing House, 2004)

 Reprinted as “George Francis McLean and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy,” in Dialogue and Universalism, Vol. 15, No. 7-8/2005, pp. 141-151.

“The Use of History,” in Prajna Vihara, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2004): 18-36.

 Reprinted, with minor revisions, in History in Education, ed. Peter Kemp (Copenhagen: Danish University of Education Press, 2005), pp. 125-145.

 Reprinted, with minor revisions, in History and Cultural Identity, ed. John P. Hogan (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2011), pp. 15-32.

“On Being Human,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. XIX (2003): 3-20.

 Reprinted, with revisions, as “Individuality, Relationality, and the Human Person,” Metaphysics 2003: Proceedings of the Second World Conference, ed. David Murray, 2 vols. (Rome: Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca, 2006), Vol. 1, pp. 154-167.

“Husserl, Stein, and Phenomenology,” in Husserl and Stein, ed. William Sweet and Richard Feist (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2003), pp. 1-20 [with Richard Feist].

“Intelligent Design, Science, and Religion,” in Faith, Reason, Science: Philosophical Reflections with Special Reference to Fides et Ratio, ed. Varghese Manimala (Delhi: Media House, 2003), pp. 182-198.

□        Reprinted in Faith and Reason Today: Fides et Ratio in a Post-modern Era: Indian Philosophical Studies, XIII, ed. Varghese Manimala (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2008), pp. 153-166.

□        A revised version appears as Ch. 4 (“Evolution, Religion, and Non-Science”), in Religion, Science, and Non-Science (Bangalore: Dharmaram Publishers, 2003).

□        Reprinted, with revisions, as “Science and Religious Belief: some conceptual issues,” in Religion and the Challenges of Science, ed. William Sweet and Richard Feist (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2007), pp. 217-232.

“Solidarity and Human Rights,” in Philosophical Theory and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, ed. William Sweet (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003), pp. 213-231.

“Theories of Rights and Political and Legal Instruments,” in Philosophical Theory and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, ed. William Sweet (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003), pp. 1-14.

“Science, Religion, and Pluralism,” Omega: Indian Journal of Science and Religion, Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2003): 31-50.

“Science and Religion in Conflict,” Vijnanadipti: journal of philosophico-theological reflection, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2003): 45-60.

“Religion and the Justification of Violence,” International Journal of Philosophy -- Fu Jen University, No. 2 (2003): 65-80.

“Introduction,” Vol. 1, Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy - 1883-1922, 3 vols., ed. William Sweet (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2003), pp. xi-xxxviii. [a revised version of 1999 below].

“Culture and Pluralism in Philosophy,” in Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism, ed. William Sweet (Aylmer, QC: Editions du scribe, 2002), pp. v-xxi.

“The Future of Tradition,” Science et esprit, Vol. 54 (2002): 299-312.

□        Reprinted, with minor revisions, as “Philosophy, Culture, and the Future of Tradition,” in

Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, Vol. 1 (2002): 103-120.

□        Reprinted, with minor revisions, as “Philosophy, Culture, and the Future of Tradition,” in Dialogue between Christian Philosophy and Chinese Culture, eds. Paschal Ting, Marian Gao, and Bernard Li (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2002), pp. 53-69.

“Methods of Metaphysics,” International Journal of Philosophy -- Fu Jen University, No. 1 (2002): 145-162. “Idealism and Rights—and challenges to it,” Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, Vol. IX (2002): 139-159.

“Globalisation, Cultural Integrity, and ‘Participative Construction’,” Notes et documents: pour une recherche personnaliste, No. 64 (2002): 14-24.

“Bernard Bosanquet,” in British Philosophers: 1800 - 2000, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 262, ed. Philip B. Dematteis, Peter S. Fosl and Leemon McHenry (Detroit & London: Gale Research, 2002), pp. 36-46.

“Religious Belief, Political Culture, and Community,” Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century, ed. Alice Ramos and Marie I. George (Washington, DC: American Maritain Association/Catholic University of America Press, 2002), pp. 297-311.

“Universal Human Rights and Cultural Integrity,” [in English and in Farsi] in Human Rights and the Dialogue of Civilizations, Qom (Iran): Mofid University Publishing House, 2001, pp 287-296.

□        Reprinted [in English] as “Cultural Integrity and Liberty Rights,” in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXX, No. 4 (October 2003):479-494.

□        Reprinted [in Chinese], with revisions, as “哲學基礎，文化真誠與人權” [Philosophical Foundations, Cultural Integrity, and Human Rights], in Universitas [Che hsüeh yü wen hua]- Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture [Fu Jen University], 354 (November 2003): 183-194.

“Canadian and Indian Idealism,” Sadhan: Journal of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations [India], Vol. 1, No. 2 (2001): 1-14.

“British Idealist Aesthetics: Origins and Themes,” in Bradley Studies, Vol. 7 (2001): 133-161.

“Value Inquiry, Cultural Diversity, and Ecumenism,” in The Future of Value Inquiry, (ed. Matti Häyry and Tuija Takala), [Value Inquiry Book Series 112], Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 2001, pp. 173-183.

“[Optional Christianity?] About Le Christianisme en accusation,” in Notes et documents: pour une recherche personnaliste, No. 60/61 (2001): 15-23.

“Beyond Idealism?,” in Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community, (ed. William Sweet), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 287-289.

“Religious Belief and Community,” in Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community, (ed. William Sweet), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 219-234.

“Idealism, Metaphysics and Community in the 20th Century,” in Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community, (ed. William Sweet), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 1-17.

“Globalization, Philosophy and the Model of Ecumenism,” in South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture, Vol. 4 (2000): 1-18;

 Reprinted in Philosophical Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization, (ed. Oliva Blanchette, Tomonobu Imamichi, George F. McLean), 2 vols., Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy, 2001, Vol. 2, pp. 427-446.

 Reprinted in Cultural Identity, Pluralism, and Globalization (ed. John P. Hogan) Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2005, pp 413-422.

“Editors’ Introduction,” The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays by Bernard Bosanquet, ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations by William Sweet and Gerald F. Gaus, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press/South Bend, IN: St Augustine’s Press [distributed by University of Chicago Press], 2001, pp. vii-xxxvi (with Gerald F. Gaus).

“Bosanquet and Bradley: some recent discussions,” in Bradley Studies, Vol. 6 (2000): 63-91.

“Christianity, Western Philosophy, and the Environment,” in Eco-Dymanics of Religions: Thoughts for the Third Millennium, (ed. Augustine Thottakara), Bangalore: Dharmaram Publishers, 2000, pp. 179-238.

“Bernard Bosanquet and the Nature of Religious Belief,” in Anglo-American Idealism: 1865-1927, (ed. W.J. Mander), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 123-139.

“The Foundations of Ethics and Moral Practices,” in The Bases of Ethics (ed. William Sweet) Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2000, pp. 220-242.

“The Bases of Ethics and Ethical Foundationalism,” in The Bases of Ethics, (ed. William Sweet) Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2000, pp. 7-22.

“Bosanquet, Culture and the Influence of Idealist Logic,” in Modern Philosophy, (ed. Mark Gedney), [Selected Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (Boston, U.SA.), Vol. VII], Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University, 2000, pp. 179-189.

“Social Policy and Bosanquet’s Moral Philosophy,” in Collingwood Studies, VI (1999): 127-146.

“Some Problems in Alan Gewirth’s ‘Foundationalist’ Account of Human Rights,” in Indian Socio-Legal Journal, Vol. XXV, Nos. 1 and 2 (1999): 41-52.

“Bosanquet and British Political Thought,” in Laval théologique et philosophique, Vol. 55 (1999): 99-114.

“Paley, Whately, and ‘Enlightenment Evidentialism’,” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 45, No. 3 (1999): 143-166.

□        Published with major revisions and additions as: “Evidentialism at its Origins and Anglo- American Philosophy of Religion,” in God and Argument / Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique, ed. William Sweet (Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 189-213.

“God as Object of Philosophical Argument” in God and Argument / Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique, ed. William Sweet (Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 1-14.

“Human Freedom and Natural Law,” in Freedom in Contemporary Culture, (ed. Zofia Zdybicka), 2 Vols., Lublin: Catholic University of Lublin Press, 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 301-319.

“Introduction,” Vol. 1, The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet (ed. William Sweet), 20 vols, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1999, pp. xi-xxxviii.

“Herbert Spencer’s Liberalism and the Defence of Natural Rights,” in Memory, History and Critique. European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 12-24 1996 [CD-ROM], (eds. Frank Brinkhuis & Sascha Talmor) Utrecht: ISSEI/University of Humanist Studies, 1998. ISBN 90-73022-11-8.

“The Changing Faces of Femininity: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives.” Introduction to The Changing Faces of Femininity, Bangalore: Centre for World Religions, 1998. [thematic issue of the Journal of Dharma, Vol. XXIII, No. 4 (1998)]: 422-429.

“Religious Pluralism and Justice in the Indian Context: A Christian Perspective,” in South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture, Vol. 3 (1998-9): 15-41. [with Thomas Tharakunnel]

“Persons, Precepts and Maritain’s Account of the Universality of Natural Law,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. XIV (1998): 141-165.

“Discourse and the Possibility of Religious Truth,” in Sophia, Vol. 37, No. 1 (1998): 72-102.

“Human Rights and Cultural Diversity,” in The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1998): 117-132.

“Religious Belief and the Influence of Technology,” in Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol. 17 (1998): 249-267.

“‘Absolute Idealism’ and Finite Individuality,” in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (1997): 431-462.

“Modernity, Postmodernity and Religion” Introduction to Religion, Modernity and Post Modernity, Bangalore: Centre for World Religions, 1997. [thematic issue of the Journal of Dharma, Vol. XXII, No. 3 (1997)]: 199-207.

“‘Second Solitude’: Echoes,” in Voices and Echoes: Canadian Women’s Spirituality, (eds. Jo-Anne Elder and Colin O’Connell), Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997, pp. 204-206.

“F.H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet,” in Philosophy after F.H. Bradley, (ed. James Bradley), Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press, 1996, pp. 31-56.

“Maritain’s Criticisms of Natural Law Theories,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. XII (1996): 33-49.

“Is Later British Idealist Political Theory Fundamentally Conservative?,” in The European Legacy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996): 403-408.

“Was Bosanquet a Hegelian?,” in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, No. 31 (1995): 39-60. “Can there be Moral Knowledge?” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. XI (1995): 159-190.

“Law and Liberty in J.S. Mill and Bernard Bosanquet,” in The Social Power of Ideas, (ed. Yeager Hudson and W. Creighton Peden), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp. 361-385.

“Liberalism, Bosanquet and the Theory of the State,” in Liberalism, Oppression, and Empowerment, (ed. Creighton Peden and Yeager Hudson), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, pp. 3-34.

“Recent Currents in the Philosophy of Religion and the Analysis of Religious Belief,” in The Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (1994): 48-65.

“Faith, Belief and Religious Truth: A Rejoinder to Hart,” in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1994): 257-266.

“Jacques Maritain and the Nature of Religious Belief,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. X (1994): 142-155.

“Individual Rights, Communitarianism, and British Idealism,” in The Bill of Rights: Bicentennial Reflections, (ed. Yeager Hudson and Creighton Peden), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993, pp. 261-277.

“Anti-foundationalism, Hendrik Hart and the Nature and Function of Religious Belief,” in Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1993): 167-191.

“Epistémologie moderne, démonstration philosophique et croyance religieuse,” in Carrefour, vol. 15, no. 1 (1993): 55-85.

Revised and published, in Polish as: “Epistemologie postmodernistyczne a racjonalnosc przekonan religijnych” (Post-Modern Epistemologies and the Rationality of Religious Belief), in Roczniki Filozoficzne (Annals of Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin), Vol. 42 (1994): 69-89.

“Penser la philosophie de la religion,” in Carrefour, vol. 15, no. 1 (1993): 3-12.

“Technology and Change in Religious Belief,” in Journal of Dharma, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1993): 124-138.

“Maritain, Post-Modern Epistemologies and the Rationality of Religious Belief,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. IX (1993): 59-82.

“Fidelité et autorité de l’Eglise selon Lumen Gentium,” in Revue de l’Université Sainte-Anne, (1993): 73-87.

“The Legitimacy of Law: From Contract to Community,” in Indian Socio-Legal Journal, Vol. XIX, No. 2 (1993): 69-84.

“Hermeneutics: The Bible and the Concept of Legacy,” in The Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 2 (1992): 48-59. [with Colin O’Connell].

“Time, Creation and Human Freedom: A Problem in Interpretation,” in The Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (1992): 1-11. [with Colin O’Connell]

“Empiricism, Fideism and the Nature of Religious Belief,” in Sophia, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, (1992): 1-15. [with Colin O’Connell]

“Bernard Bosanquet and the Development of Rousseau’s Idea of the General Will,” in Man and Nature / L’homme et la nature, Vol. X (1991): 179-197.

“Hobbes, Jaume et les droits inaliénables,” in Carrefour, Vol. 13, no. 2 (1991): 121-135.

“Les ‘droits naturels’ et les ‘titres’ selon Robert Nozick,” in Lekton, Vol. I, no. 2 (1991): 81-98.

“L’individu et les droits de la personne selon Maritain et Bosanquet,” in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. VI (1990): 141-166.

“Rationality and the Humanities and Social Sciences,” (1979) in Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXI, No. 3 (1994): 257-270.

“Positivism, Natural Law Theory and the ‘Internal Morality of Law’,” (1977) in Kinesis, Vol. 19, No. 1 (1993): 15-27.

“Some Critical Comments on Langer’s Philosophy of Art,” in The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

(Oberlin College), Vol. VII, No. 1 (1975): 19-24.

“Parts X and XI of Hume’s Dialogues,” in The Carleton University Student Journal of Philosophy, Vol. I, No. 3 (1975): 27-42.

“The Metaphysics of Thinking According to Heidegger,” in The Carleton University Student Journal of Philosophy, Vol. I, No. 2 (1974): 22-32.

e.   Encyclopedia Articles and Short Introductions:

“Bernard Bosanquet,” Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought, ed. Terence Ball (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [accepted; to appear in 2019].

“John Grote,” Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T. Gibbons (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 1543–1545.

“Bernard Bosanquet,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd  edition, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 420-421 (1,600 words).

“Bradley, F.H.,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 592-599. (3,000 words)

“Bernard Bosanquet,” Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols., ed. Gregory Claeys (Sage Publishers/CQ Press, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 97-99. (750 words)

“Presentation,” in Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights, ed. William Sweet, Roberto Papini, and Luigi Bonanate (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2011), pp. v-x.

“Editorial,” in Notes et documents, 19 (Janvier-avril 2011), pp. 9-10.

“Preface” and “Introduction,” in Cultural Tradition and Social Progress [Chinese Philosophical Studies, XXVIII], ed. He Xirong, Yu Xuanmeng, Yu Xintian, Yu Wujing, and Yang Junyi (Washington, DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2011), pp. vii-x; 1-9.

“Bentham, Jeremy: Classical School,” in The Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory, ed. Frank Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2010) [3,000 words] (with Paul Groarke), pp. 88-94.

Articles in: Biographical Encyclopedia of British Idealism, ed. William Sweet (London: Continuum, 2010) [sole author of 49 and co-author of 8 of 210 entries]

“Idealism in Britain” (4,600 words), pp. 1-8.

“British Idealism in East Asia” (4,753 words), pp. 34-42. “British Idealism in India” (5,235 words), pp. 26-34.

“British Idealism in Southern Africa” (3,700 words), pp. 20-26. “Sidney Ball” (700 words)

“G.F. Barbour” (455 words)

“Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya” (1,314 words) “George John Blewett” (840 words)

“Bernard Bosanquet” (3,000 words) “George Brett” (1,017 words) “William Jethro Brown” (900 words) “Alfred Caldecott” (600 words) “J.C.P. d’Andrade” (913 words)

“Narendranath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda)” (743 words) “S.W. Dyde” (1,300 words)

“Aurobindo Ghose” (1,263 words) “W.H. Fairbrother” (650 words) “T.M. Forsyth” (650 words)

“Patrick Geddes” [with Robert Calder] (1239 words) “Hiralal Haldar” (1,422 words)

“J.A. Hobson” (650 words) “R.F.A. Hoernlé” (2,500 words) “Alfred George Hogg” (600 words)

“Henry Scott Holland” (1,300 words)

“François Houang” (550 words)

“Elijah Jordan” [with D.J. Hodge] (650 words) “T.B. Kilpatrick” (1,820 words)

“George Harry Langley” (753 words) “Rupert Lodge” [with E. Trott] (700 words) “Arthur Ritchie Lord” (600 words) “Thomas Loveday” (650 words)

“Mungo William MacCallum” (1,000 words) “William Allison Macfadyen” (900 words)

“E.B. McGilvary” [with Steven Bayne] (650 words) “Hettie Millicent Mackenzie” (950 words)

“John McKenzie” (600 words) “G.R. Malkani” (1,715 words)

“F.D. Maurice” [with Steven Schroeder] (650 words) “A.C. Mukerji” (2,159 words)

“Andrew Howson Murray” (1,619 words) “George Gilbert Aimé Murray” (2,320 words)

“John Clark Murray” [with M. Nunnelley] (650 words) “Jean Pucelle” (1,301 words)

“Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan” (2,500 words) “P.T. Raju” (2,029 words)

“Hugh Adam Reyburn” (600 words). “D.G. Ritchie” (2,500 words)

“Bertrand Russell” [with Andrew Irvine] (2,500 words) “G.H. Sabine” [with M Konvitz] (650 words) “Brajendranath Seal” (1,539 words)

“J.A. Smith” (957 words)

“William Spence Urquhart” (950 words). “Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia” (2,600 words) “Thomas Walker” (836 words)

“William Wallace” (1,714 words) “Alban Gregory Widgery” (822 words) “George Paxton Young” (1,250 words)

“Foreword” to Rolando M. Gripaldo: History, Culture, and Philosophy (Quezon City / Manila: C & E Publishing, 2010), xi-xv.

“Human Rights,” in Government and Politics (ed. Masashi Sekiguchi), in UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) [Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO], Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers, 2004 [http://www.eolss.net];

-- reprinted in Government and Politics (ed. Masashi Sekiguchi), Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers, 2007, Volume 2, pp. 95-126. [16,000 words].

Articles in: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ed. Edward Craig) London: Routledge, 2007. www.rep.routledge.com/

“Andrew Howson Murray,” (1,400 words) “R.F.A. Hoernlé,” (1,400 words)

“Herbert Spencer,” in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Thomas Flynn; foreword by Richard Dawkins (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007) [1,200 words], pp. 729-730.

“R.F.A. Hoernlé” and “A.F.R. Hoernlé,” Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) [2,000 words].

Articles in: The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, ed. A. C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle, and Naomi Goulder, 4. vols. (Bristol, UK: Continuum Press, 2006; Published to Oxford Reference: 2010)

“Annie Besant,” (2,700 words) “Bernard Bosanquet” (3,000 words) “Alfred Caldecott” (600 words) “F.H. Cleobury,” (600 words) “T.M. Forsyth” (650 words) “R.F.A. Hoernlé” (2,500 words) “Alfred George Hogg” (600 words)

“George Harry Langley” (750 words) “Arthur Ritchie Lord” (600 words) “Thomas Loveday” (650 words) “John McKenzie” (600 words)

“Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan” (2,500 words) “Hugh Adam Reyburn” (600 words). “D.G. Ritchie” (2,500 words)

“Rights,” vol. 4, pp. 2724-28 (3,300 words)

“Scholasticism,” vol. 4, pp. 2827-31 (3,500 words) “William Spence Urquhart” (950 words). “Friedrich von Hügel,” (600 words)

“William Wallace” (1,700 words) “Alban Gregory Widgery” (800 words)

Articles in: Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, 2 vols. (ed. Stuart Brown) Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2005.

“Bernard Bosanquet,” vol. 1, pp. 103-111 (4,000 words)

“F.H. Cleobury,” vol. 1, pp. 168-9. (600 words)

“T.M. Forsyth,” vol. 1, pp. 296-7 (600 words)

“R.F.A. Hoernlé,” vol. 1, pp. 434-8. (2,500 words)

“Alfred George Hogg,” vol. 1, pp. 440-1. (600 words)

“Friedrich von Hügel,” vol. 1, pp. 457-60 (600 words)

“George Harry Langley,” vol. 1, pp. 543-4. (600 words)

“Arthur Ritchie Lord,” vol. 1, pp. 583-4. (600 words)

“Thomas Loveday,” vol. 1, pp. 585-6. (600 words)

“John McKenzie,” vol. 2, pp. 617-8 (600 words)

“Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,” vol. 2, pp. 835-9. (2,500 words)

“Hugh Adam Reyburn,” vol. 2, pp. 870-1. (600 words)

“William Spence Urquhart,” vol. 2, pp. 1066-8. (600 words)

“Alban Gregory Widgery,” vol. 2, pp. 1122-3. (600 words)

“Jeremy Bentham,” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, (ed. Bernard Lightman), 4 vols., Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 193-4. (600 words)

“Richard Whately,” Dictionary of Irish Philosophers, (ed. Thomas Duddy) Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004, pp. 364-8. (2500 words)

“J.A. Smith,” Dictionary of British Classicists: 1500 - 1960, (ed. Robert B. Todd), Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004, vol. 3, pp. 904-5. (600 words)

Articles in: Early Responses to British Idealism, general editor William Sweet, 3 vols., Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum Press, 2004.

“General Introduction,” Vol. 1, pp. ix-xix.

“D.G. Ritchie: Introduction and Bibliographies,” Vol. 2, pp. 3-7; 97-103.

“Bernard Bosanquet: Introduction and Bibliographies,” Vol. 2, pp. 107-118; 257-268.

“Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison: Introduction and Bibliographies,” Vol. 3, pp. 145-149; 220-225. “John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart: Introduction and Bibliographies,” Vol. 3, pp. 229-233; 317-320. “Supplementary Bibliographies,” Vol. 3, pp. 321-341.

“Bibliography to the Writings of Bernard Bosanquet,” Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy - 1883-1922, 3 vols., ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations by William Sweet, Bristol (UK): Thoemmes Press, 2003., Vol. 1, xxxix-lxv [with Peter Nicholson]. [revised version of 1999 below].

“Bibliography: Critical Studies,” Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy - 1883-1922, 3 vols., ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations by William Sweet, Bristol (UK): Thoemmes Press, 2003, Vol. 1, lxvi-lxxv. [revised version of 1999 below].

‘Preface,’ Vol. 3, Bernard Bosanquet: Essays in Philosophy and Social Policy - 1883-1922, 3 vols., ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations by William Sweet, Bristol (UK): Thoemmes Press, 2003, pp. vii-xv. [revised version of 1999 below].

“Maritain, Jacques,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, revised/second edition, Catholic University of America Press/ Gage Publishing, 2002, pp. 177-180. [with J.W. Evans and D. A. Gallagher}

Articles in: Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers, 2. vols. (ed. W.J. Mander and A.P.F. Sell) Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2002,

“Annie Besant,” Vol. 1, pp. 92-97 (2,700 words)

“Bernard Bosanquet,” Vol. 1, pp. 120-127 (4,000 words)

“Alfred Caldecott,” Vol. 1, pp. 201-202 (600 words)

“Friedrich Von Huegel,” Vol. 1, pp. 556-559 (600 words)

“David George Ritchie,” Vol. 2, pp. 953-957 (2,500 words)

“William Wallace,” Vol. 2, pp. 1160-1163 (2,500 words)

“Herbert Spencer,” in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (ed. J. Fieser), Martin, TN: University of Tennessee at Martin, 2001.

“Philosophy: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion,” in The Canadian Encyclopedia: World Edition, (ed. James Marsh), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001 (on CD-ROM); reprinted in The Canadian Encyclopedia: Year 2000 edition; Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000 [with

L. Armour and K. Sullivan], pp. 1809-1811 (2,300 word entry)

-- French translation in: L' Encyclopédie canadienne: édition bilingue, ed. James Marsh, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000; 2001 [with L. Armour and K. Sullivan]

Articles in: The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (ed. Christopher B. Gray), New York: Garland Publishing, 1999

“Idealists, British,” Vol. 1, pp. 389-390.

“Maritain, Jacques (1882-1973),” Vol. 2, pp. 533-535.

“Nozick, Robert (1938- ),” Vol. 2, pp. 601-603.

“Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903),” Vol. 2, pp. 827-829.

“Bibliography to the Writings of Bernard Bosanquet,” The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet, 20 volumes, ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations by William Sweet, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1999, Vol. 1, 553-579 [with Peter Nicholson].

“Bibliography: Critical Studies,” The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet, 20 volumes, ed. with Introductions, notes, and annotations by William Sweet, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1999, Vol. 1, 580-589.

‘Preface,’ Vol. 14, The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet (ed. William Sweet), 20 vols, Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1999, pp. vii-xv.

Brief entries on “Edward Caird (1835-1908),” “David George Ritchie (1853-1903)” and “Richard Whately (1787-1863),” in A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names, Ed. Garth Kemerling, 1998.

Articles in: Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871-1990. (ed. Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr), New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

“Ernst Bloch,” Vol. 1, pp. 120-121.

“Martin Buber,” Vol. 1, pp. 146-147.

“Ernst Cassirer,” Vol. 1, p. 162.

“The Marburg School (Die Marburger Schule),” Vol. 2, pp. 633-634. “Karl Popper”, Vol. 2, pp. 778-779.

“Carl Schmitt,” Vol. 2, pp. 890-891.

“The Vienna Circle (Der Wiener Kreis)”, Vol. 2, pp. 1031-1032. “Ludwig Wittgenstein,” Vol. 2, pp. 1076-1077.

“Bernard Bosanquet,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (ed. E.N. Zalta), Stanford, CA: CSLI, 1st edition, 1997. (13,000 word entry); substantial revision / 2nd edition 2004; substantial revision / 3rd edition 2008.

“Jacques Maritain,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (ed. E.N. Zalta), Stanford, CA: CSLI, 1st edition, 1997. (15,000 word entry), substantial revision / 2nd edition 2004; substantial revision / 3rd edition 2008.

“Jeremy Bentham,” in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (ed. J. Fieser), Martin, TN: University of Tennessee at Martin, 1997. (5,000 word entry)

- An abridged version has been published (in Castilian, Gallego and English) in “Cardinales” - Catalogue of the Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, 2002.

1. f.   Articles in published Proceedings:

“John Henry Newman and the Prospects for a Dialogue among Faith, Reason, and Culture,” Conference Papers: Second International Fu Jen Academia Catholica Symposium: Homo, Cultura, Transcendentia - Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Catholic Studies, Taipei, Taiwan: Fu Jen University, 2011.

“Modernity, Values, and Culture,” Proceedings of the International Conference for Enlightenment and Its Contemporary Reevaluation, Shanghai: The National Research Base for World Marxism and Thought Trends at Fudan University, 2009

http://wx.xast.cn/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?filename=FDMX200906001011&dbcode=IPFD&dbn ame=IPFD2009

“Ethics in a Multicultural World,” Philosophical Reflections on Difference and Conflict: Proceedings of the May 27, 2006 Conference of the Korean Philosophical Association, Daegu (Korea), 2006, pp. 235-253.

“Individuality, Relationality, and the Human Person,” Metaphysics 2003: Proceedings of the Second World Conference, ed. David Murray, 2 vols., Rome (Italy): Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca, 2006, Vol. 1, pp. 154-167.

“Metaphysics, ‘Christian Philosophy’ and J. H. Newman,” Proceedings of the Metaphysics for the Third Millennium Conference, ed. David Murray et al., 2 vols., Rome (Italy): Presso Istituto Assunzione, 2001, Vol. 2, pp. 457-465.

“Faith and Reason in Newman’s Thought,” The Newman Rambler (bicentennial issue), ed. David Williams, et al., Vol. 5, No. 2 (2001): 26-31.

“British Idealism, Bosanquet, and Aesthetics,” in The Great Book of Aesthetics (Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA), Tokyo 27-31 August, 2001, ed Ken-ichi Sasaki and Tanehisa Otabe, Tokyo (Japan), University of Tokyo, 2003. ISBN 4-9901701-0-5. On CD-ROM.

“Idealist Social Policy and Liberalism,” Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future [Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas], eds.

Daniel Apollon, Odd-Bjorn Fure, Lars Svasand, Bergen (Norway): HIT Centre, University of Bergen, 2000. ISBN 82-91320-20-9. On CD-ROM.

“Bosanquet’s Logic and the Relation between Society and the Individual,” Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future [Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas], eds. Daniel Apollon, Odd-Bjorn Fure, Lars Svasand, Bergen (Norway): HIT Centre, University of Bergen, 2000. ISBN 82-91320-20-9. On CD-ROM.

“Bosanquet, Culture and the Influence of Idealist Logic,” in Paideia: Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (Boston, U.SA.) http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Mode/ModeSwee.htm

After further editorial review, selected for publication in an abridged, print version of the Proceedings, Vol.

7, Modern Philosophy (ed. Mark Gedney).

“Discourse and the Nature of Religious Truth,” in The Nature of Truth (If Any), ed. Jaroslav Peregrin, Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1997, pp. 237-255.

“Bosanquet et les droits de la personne,” in Cahiers de l’équipe de recherche en éthique sociale, no. 9701, Montréal: Équipe de recherche en éthique sociale, 1997.

“Human Rights as a Foundation of Solidarity: The contribution of Jacques Maritain,” in Documents de Travail, no. 29, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique): Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale, 1996.

“Idealism and British Liberalism,” in Papers presented to the 1995 annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, ON: Canadian Political Science Association, 1995. On microfiche:

“Autonomy, Authority and the Law in 19th Century Political Thought,” in Papers presented to the 1993 annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, ON: Canadian Political Science Association, 1993. On microfiche:

“Bernard Bosanquet on Society and the State” in Papers presented to the 1991 annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, ON: Canadian Political Science Association, 1991. On microfiche: Fiche 46/66: 22 pp.

g.   Reviews and Critical Notices:

Review of Sharad Deshpande (ed.), The Philosophy of G.R. Malkani, in Sophia 51 (2012):147–149. Review of Jean-Luc Barré, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven, tr. B. E. Doering, Notre Dame

Philosophical Reviews, May 2006.  http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=6501

Prefatory Remarks to Socrates, Lucretius, Camus — Two Philosophical Traditions on Death, by Fred Wilson.

Lewiston, Edwin Mellen, 2001, pp. v-vi.

Review of Andrew Pyle (ed.), Key Philosophers in Conversation: the Cogito Interviews, in Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus en philosophie, Vol. XXI, No. 2 (April 2001): 147-148.

Review of Jacques Maritain, Distinguish to Unite or, The Degrees of Knowledge (The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain; Volume 7), in Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, Vol. XIV (1998): 167-70.

Review of Paul Coates and Daniel D. Hutto, (ed.), Current Issues in Idealism, in Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus en philosophie, Vol. XVIII, No. 6 (December 1998): 396-399.

Review of David Boucher (ed.), The British Idealists, in Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus en philosophie, Vol. XVIII, No. 6 (December 1998): 393-396.

Review of Norman Malcolm, Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View?, in The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. LXXI, No. 1 (1997): 126-130.

Review of John Horton and Susan Mendus (eds.), After MacIntyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair MacIntyre, in The European Legacy, Vol. 2, No. 7 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997): 1245- 1246.

Review of Thomas Dean (ed.), Religious Pluralism and Truth: Essays on Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews / Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie, Vol. XVI, No. 4 (1996): 249-250.

Review of David Boucher and Andrew Vincent, A Radical Hegelian: The Political and Social Philosophy of Henry Jones, in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, No 32 (1995): 83-89.

Review of Robert A.H. Larmer, Water into Wine?: An Investigation of the Concept of Miracle, in Religious Studies and Theology, Vols. 13-14, No. 1 (1995): 103-105.

Review of Kelly J. Clark (ed.), Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews / Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1995): 19-21.

Review of Paul Gottfried, Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, in Dialogue (Canada), Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 (1994): 770-771.

Review of Kai Nielsen, After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy, in

Philosophia (Israel), Vol. 23 (1994): 401-405.

Review of Yusuf K. Umar, George Grant and the Future of Canada, in The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. XII, No. 9 (1994): 27.

Review of Richard Tuck, Hobbes, in The Heythrop Journal, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1 (1993): 107-109.

Critical Review of Peter P. Nicholson, The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists: Selected Studies, in Laval théologique et philosophique, 48, No. 3 (1992): 477-480.

Review of Kai Nielsen and Hendrik Hart, Search for Community in a Withering Tradition: Conversations between a Marxian Atheist and a Calvinian Christian, in Église et théologie, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1992): 293-295.

Review of Steven M. DeLue, Political Obligation in a Liberal State, in The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. LXVI, No. 1 (1992): 102-105.

Review of K.J. Clark, Return to Reason: A Critique of Enlightenment Evidentialism and a Defense of Reason and Belief in God, in Religious Studies and Theology, Vol. 11, Nos. 2 & 3 (1991): 96-97.

Review of J.R. Lucas, The Future: An Essay on God, Temporality and Truth, in Religious Studies and Theology, Vol. 11, Nos. 2 & 3 (1991): 83-84.

Review of Tibor Machan, Individuals and their Rights, in The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.

LXV, No. 2 (1991): 248-251.

Compte rendu de Jean-Luc Chabot, La doctrine sociale de l’Eglise, in Église et théologie, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1991): 260-263.

Critical Review of Kai Nielsen, God, Scepticism and Modernity, in Église et théologie, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1991): 113-117.

Compte rendu de Lucien Jaume, Hobbes et l’état représentatif moderne, in Philosopher: revue de l’enseignement de la philosophie au Québec, no. 10 (1990-1991): 227-232.

Critical Review of Guy Lafrance (ed.), Éthique et droits fondamentaux / Ethics and Basic Rights, in Laval théologique et philosophique, 46, No. 3 (1990): 403-406.

Résumé de “Patrick Imbert: ‘L’Américanité: profils et perspectives’,” in Carrefour: revue de réflexion interdisciplinaire, Vol. XII, No. 1 (1990), pp. 171 - 174. (with L. Charette)

Critical Review of A.I. Melden, Rights and Persons, in Auslegung, Vol. XI, No. 2 (1985): 537-545.

Other Publications:

1. a.  Popular Writing (major):

“今日之馬里旦” [Maritain Today], [in Chinese] in Universitas [Che hsüeh yü wen hua] - Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture [Fu Jen University], 388 (September 2006): 5-13; 63-69.

“The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association: the first 25 years,” Notes et documents: pour une recherche personnaliste, supp. to no. 68 (avril 2004), pp. 47-51.

“A moral response to terrorism,” Alumni News [St Francis Xavier University], Fall 2001, p. 8. “[Arts commentary:] The moral response to terrorism,” news@stfx.ca No. 70 (Sept. 30, 2001).

“Les Études maritainiennes en Amérique du nord,” Cahiers Jacques Maritain, No. 42 (2001): 57-63. “Advice to Thomists,” The Maritain Notebook (The American Maritain Association Newsletter), Vol. 9, No. 1

(2001): 2-3.

“Christian Philosophers in India,” Newsletter of the American Society of Christian Philosophers, Fall 1997, pp. 1-2.

“Over there, over there... Australia and Eastern Europe,” Newsletter of the American Society of Christian Philosophers, Winter 1997, pp. 2-3.

“Free speech remains fundamental freedom,” Op-Ed Page feature in The Halifax Chronicle-Herald and in

The Halifax Mail-Star (Halifax daily newspapers), Monday, March 14, 1994.

“A plea for reason in time of war,” Op-Ed Page feature in The Halifax Chronicle-Herald and in The Halifax Mail-Star (Halifax daily newspapers), Friday, February 1, 1991

“Not easy: East Germans face tough adjustment” Op-Ed Page feature in The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa daily newspaper), Monday, October 1, 1990.

1. b.  Radio Commentary:

“Individual and Collective Rights,” Radio Commentary: Open House, CBC National Radio (AM and FM), Sunday, October 4, 1987.

1. c.  Translations:

Steffen Mensching, “Unter den Linden”, in The Antigonish Review 84 (1991): 142-143 (from German). Paul Valadier, s.j., “Modernity, Globalization, and Cultures,” Notes et documents, 59 (September-December

2000): 14-20 (from French).

Jacques Maritain, Lectures on Natural Law [La loi naturelle ou loi non-écrite], for the Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Volume VI. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press (from French).

Editorial Responsibilities:

Editor, Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, 2001-present.

Editor, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies: incorporating Bradley Studies, 2005-present Editor, Bradley Studies, 2004-05.

Editor, Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, 1994-2006.

Editor, Bulletin of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies, 2001-present. Associate Editor, Journal of Dharma [Bangalore, India], 1996-present.

Associate Editor, The South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 1996-present. President, Editorial Committee, Notes et documents, 2011-present

Member of the Editorial Board, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2000-present. Member of the Editorial Board, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2017-present. Member of the Editorial Board, Analysis and Metaphysics, 2017-present.

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Member of the Editorial Board, Science et esprit: revue de philosophie et de théologie, 2000-present. Member of the Editorial Board, Culture and Dialogue, 2011-present.

Member of the Academic Council, Studia Gilsoniana, 2018-present. Member of the Editorial Board, Vietnam Social Sciences, 2017-present.

Member of the Editorial Board, Satya Nilayam: Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy, 2012-present. Member of the Editorial Board, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, 2003-05.

Editorial Consultant, Philosophia [Philippine National Philosophical Research Society], 2012 – present Editorial Consultant, Res Disputandae (formerly Ethics Education) [Australian Catholic University], 2011 -

present

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Dialogi Polityczne [Torun, Poland], 2012-present

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Scripta Philosophica. Research Bulletin of Doctoral Students of the Philosophy Faculty at KUL, 2012-present

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Book series: Philosophie im internationalen Kontext/Philosophy in International Context, Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006-present.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Universitas [journal of the Faculty of Philosophy, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan], 2003-present.

Member of the English Editorial Board, Review of Philosophy [Institute of Philosophy, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences], 2007-2015.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Melintas [journal of the Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia], 2003-2015.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, «Әл-Фараби – Аль-Фараби» Философско- политологический и духовно-познавательный журнал [El-Farabi/Al'-Farabi:

Filosofsko-politologicheskii i dukhovno-poznavatel'nyi zhurnal] (Institut filosofii i politologii Ministerstva obrazovaniia i nauki Respubliki Kazakhstan) [journal of Almaty Qazaq Universiteti, Kazakhstan], 2003-2015.

Area Editor (Social Philosophy), The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1999-2007. Editor, Bulletin of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, 1999-2001.

Editor, Bulletin of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, 1999-2001. Editor, Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers Newsletter, 1994-99.

Member of the Editorial Board, Carrefour: revue de réflexion interdisciplinaire (French-language philosophical review), 1986-91.

Editor, De Philosophia (University of Ottawa Philosophy Review), 1983-84. Founding Editor, The Carleton University Student Journal of Philosophy, 1974-80.

Editorial Assistant, The Canadian Library of Philosophy, (Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy; Editorial offices at Carleton University), 1975-76.

Professional Lectures:

“Newman and the Nature and Demonstrability of Religious Belief,” Canadian Society for Philosophy of Religion/Société canadienne de philosophie de la religion, Montreal, QC. May 2019 [forthcoming]

“Some Classical Ways of Thinking about Ethics,” Academic exchange meeting of international leading experts in the School of Education and Public Administration, Suzhou Unbiversity of Science and Technmology, Suzhou, P.R. China, December 11, 2018.

“Ethics and Dialogue,” Four lectures delivered under the “International Professional Teacher Training Program”, Renmin University, Beijing, P.R. China, December 4-7, 2018

“Freedom of Conscience and Catholic Education,” Presidential Lecture, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ottawa, ON, November 16, 2018

“Intuitionism, Religious Belief, and Proof in the Metaphysical Society,” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 11-14, 2018.

“Meaningful Life and the Recognition of Conscience,” Invited Lecture, International Society for Metaphysics Conference on "Human Existence and the Meaningful World", XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, P.R. China, August 18, 2018.

“Conscience and Christianity,” XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, P.R. China, August 17, 2018.

“Tomonobu Imamichi and George F. McLean: Wisdom Philosophers,” Invited Lecture for Special Session on Tomonobu Imamichi, Session for the Tomonobu Imamichi Institute for Eco-Ethica, XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, P.R. China, August 15, 2018.

“Philosophy of Religion: State of the Discipline and Future Directions,” Invited Lecture for session on ‘Derrida and the Philosophy of Religion,’ organised by the IISF, XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, P.R. China, August 15, 2018.

“Intercultural Philosophy and Ecological Citizenship,” [with Chen Zeng], XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, P.R. China, August 14, 2018.

“A Perspective on an Indian Perspective on Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics: the case of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,” Invited Lecture for ICPR session on “Philosophy, Culture, and Civil Society. An Indian Perspective” XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, P.R. China, August 14, 2018.

“Dialogue and Conscience,” Conference on “Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations," Shandong University, Jinan, China, August 7-9, 2018.

“Jacques Maritain’s Contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to Freedom of Conscience,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association," Montreal, QC, June 5-6, 2018.

“Jacques Maritain et les origines de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme,” Inaugural Lecture, Conference on “La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti dell’Uomo (1948) e il discorso di Jacques Maritain all’Unesco (Città del Messico, 1947),” Rome, April 12-14, 2018.

“Some Models of Canadian Philosophy”, Keynote Lecture, Conference on "What is Canadian Philosophy? Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of Confederation," Fredericton, NB, Nov 24-25 2017

“Maritain on Persons, Community, and History in Moral Philosophy,” Invited lecture, Conference on Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Regis College, Toronto, ON, August 4, 2017.

“Are Robots e-Persons?” “Science in Public” conference, University of Sheffield, July 10, 2017 (with Robert Gaizauskas).

“Martin Versfeld, Citizenship, and Civitas Dei,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ryerson University, May 2017.

“Forgotten Philosophies,” Invited lecture, Faculty of Philosophy, Dominican University College, Ottawa, ON, March 23, 2017.

“British Idealism and ‘Becoming Human’ through Art,” Invited lecture, Universdad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 11, 2017.

“Freedom of Conscience and Catholic Universities,” Aquinas lecture, St Peter’s Seminary, London, ON, February 9, 2017.

“Integrity, Conscience, and Dignity,” Invited lecture, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, February 8, 2017.

“The Possibility of an Intercultural Philosophy and Intercultural Dialogue,” Invited lecture, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (Pontifical Athenaeum), Bangalore, India, January 24, 2017.

“Plantinga, Religious Discourse, and Epistemic Reasonability,” Keynote address, National Seminar on ‘Contemporary Epistemological Issues: With Special Reference to Alvin I Goldman’s Contributions’, Indian Council for Philosophical Research Academic Centre, Lucknow, India, January 18, 2017.

“Cultural Identity and Democracy,” Invited lecture, University of Goa, Goa, India, January 16, 2017. “Cultural Identity and Democracy,” Invited Annual Faculty-Student Seminar Lecture, Jnana-Deepa

Vidyapeeth (Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Religion), Pune, India, January 13, 2017. “Ecological Citizenship and Ethical Burial” Invited lecture, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur,

Rajasthan, India, January 12, 2017.

“Individualist and Communitarian Conceptions of Justice,” Keynote address, Conference on Justice and Responsibility, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, January 9-10, 2017.

“The Predicament of Self-Ownership,” Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, January 7, 2017. “The ‘Real Will’, Nicholson, and Bernard Bosanquet’s Philosophy of the State,” PSA British Idealist

Specialist Group, University of Hull, England, December 15, 2016.

“Cultural Identity and Democracy,” Invited paper, Research Centre in Public Ethics and Governance, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, October 31, 2016.

“Maritain on Persons, Community, and History in Moral Philosophy,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association Annual Conference, Dominican University College, Ottawa, October 28, 2016.

“Comments on ‘Antonio Calcagno, God and Being: Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Community in her Early Work and in her later Finite and Eternal Being,” CSCP Annual Meeting, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, May 2016.

“Charles Malik: From Process to Reality,” Invited paper, Conference on Charles Malik the Philosopher: Reflections on Process and Impact, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Beirut, Lebanon, March 30-31, 2016.

“Intercultural Philosophy and Forgotten Philosophies,” ICPR Invited Lecture, Satya Nilayam Research Institute, Chennai, India, Feb. 22, 2016.

“Culture and Identity,” Invited lecture, Chennai Philosophical Forum, Chennai, India, Feb. 20, 2016. “Identity, Culture and Recognition,” ICPR Invited Lecture, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit,

Kalady, Kerala, India, Feb. 19, 2016.

“Does History have a Purpose?,” Invited lecture, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Religion), Pune, India, Feb. 18, 2016.

“'The Project of Intercultural Philosophy and Intercultural Communication,” ICPR Invited Lecture, University of Pune, India, Feb. 18, 2016.

“Personhood and Property,” ICPR Invited Lecture, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India, Feb. 16, 2016.

“Identity, Culture, and Recognition” and “Forgotten Philosophies,” ICPR Invited Lecture, University of Delhi, India, Feb. 15, 2016.

“To Be Human: Self, Community, Nature, Sacred/Transcendent,” Invited Workshop on “Re-learning to Be Human for Global Times,” Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Tewkesbury, MA,

USA, December 18-19, 2015

“Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of Life,” St Jerome’s University, Waterloo, ON, November 20, 2015.

“Catholic Philosophies of Education: Problems, Principles, and Prospects,” Keynote address, Conference on Civil Society and Human Formation: Philosophy’s Role in a Renewed Understanding of the Meaning of Education, Melbourne, Australia, 20-22 July, 2015

“Individualist and Communitarian Principles of Justice,” Conference on “Justice and Responsibility in Multiple Cultures,” Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 18-19 July, 2015.

“The Project of Intercultural Philosophy and Intercultural Communication.” Conference on “The Methods of Mateo Ricci and Communication between Western and Chinese Cultures,” Department of Religion, School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 12-13 July 2015.

“Anti-politics, Maritain, and Change of Culture,” Invited Plenary Address, American Maritain Association, San Francisco, CA, 27 February 2015.

“Personhood and Property: Eastern and Western Perspectives,” Invited Paper, International Conference on “Philosophy and Life World,” Shanghai Academy of the Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, 15-16 December 2014.

“Transhumanism and the Metaphysics of the Human Person,” Inaugural Address, International Conference on “Metaphysics: Past, Present, and Future,” International Society for Metaphysics (ISM)/Shanghai Academy of the Social Sciences (SASS)/East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China, 13 December 2014.

“British Idealism and its Place in Recent Anglo-American Philosophy,” Invited Speaker, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Zhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, 8 December 2014.

“Problems of Embodiment and the Body,” Invited Speaker, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 8 December 2014.

“Transhumanism and Persons,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, 26 May 2014.

“The Human, Transhumanism, and Embodiment,” Conference on “Learning to be Human”, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, China, Mar. 27, 2014.

"Dharma/Dhamma Traditions and their Significance for Universal Human Rights", Distinguished Speaker, Second International Conference on Dharma-Dhamma, Centre for Study of Religion and Society (CSRS) of India Foundation / Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, Sanchi /Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, Feb 28, 2014.

“Religious Tolerance in the Global Context,” Anna Centre for Public Affairs, University of Madras, Chennai, India, Feb. 26, 2014.

“Feminism: A Philosophical Perspective,” Department of Women’s Studies, University of Madras, Chennai, India, Feb. 26, 2014.

“Swami Vivekananda and the Relevance of Indian Spirituality in the 21th Century,” Presidential Address, National Seminar on “Indian spirituality and its relevance in 21st Century,” University of Madras, Chennai, India, February 25, 2014.

“Body, Embodiment, and the Person (2 lectures),” [LD Swamikannu Pillai endowment lectures], University of Madras, Chennai, India, February 24, 2014.

“Buddhism and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Conference on Spiritual Foundations and Chinese Culture: A Philosophical Approach, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 13, 2013.

“Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of Life,” International Conference on Catholic Faith and Human Care, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8, 2013.

“Immigration and the Virtue of Hospitality,” Invited Round Table Participant, ‘Religion and Immigration,’ Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, 1 October 2013.

“Culture, Values, and Models of Human Rights,” International Conference on “Religion, Philosophy, and Culture”, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 23-24, 2013.

“The Moral Self and the Metaphysical Self,” Conference on ‘British Idealism and the concept of the self,’ Harris Manchester College, Oxford, 27–29 August 2013.

“Empiricism, Fideism, and John Henry Newman,” [Section on Christian Philosophy], World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 4-10 August, 2013.

“Cultural Change and the Theology of the Body: Some Philosophical Reflections,” Special Session of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies on “Cultural Change and the Place of Religion,” World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 4-10 August, 2013.

“Changing the Culture of ‘Anti-politics’,” Conference on “Culture and Philosophy as Way of Life in Times of Global Crisis,” Pre-conference World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, Greece, 1-3 August, 2013.

“Religion, Culture, and Models of Human Rights,” keynote paper, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria, BC, 5 June 2013.

“Freedom of Religion and Catholic Social Teaching,” keynote paper, Conference on ‘Reflections on The “Year of faith”,’ Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, 17 May 2013.

“Diritti umani ed educazione al diologo interculturale,” Conference of Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain on « Educare alla politica, » Republic of San Marino, 27 April 2013.

“What is Beauty?,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Dominican University College, Ottawa, 27 October 2012.

“Freedom of Conscience in Catholic Universities,” Rev William Rossner, sj, Annual Lecture in Philosophy, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, 22 October 2012.

“Religious Freedom and Catholic Social Thought,” Pedro Arrupe Endowment Lecture, Satya Nilayam

/ Sacred Heart College, Chennai (India), 3 August 2012.

“Cultural Difference and Philosophical Dialogue,” Department of Sanskrit, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala (India), 30 July 2012.

“Models of Intercultural Philosophy” and “Religion and Cultural Conflict,” Extension Lectures, Indian Council for Philosophical Research / Department of Philosophy, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala (India), 27 July 2012.

“Intercultural Philosophy,” Invited Special Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, Chennai (India), 26 July 2012.

“Globalization and the Internationalization of Higher Education.” Invited keynote address, National Conference on Indian Higher Education, Madras Christian College, Chennai (India), 23 July 2012.

“Radhakrishnan and the Duty of Universal Spiritual Emancipation.” Invited lecture, Vishu Mohan Foundation, Chennai (India), 22 July 2012.

“Philosophy East and West, and the Project of Intercultural Philosophy,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Waterloo, ON, 31 May 2012.

“Is the ‘Intelligibility of Religious Language’ Debate Dead?,” Jay Newman Memorial Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion, Canadian Theological Society, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Waterloo, ON, 28 May 2012.

“Natural Law in Theory and Practice: Jacques Maritain and the Contemporary Natural Law Tradition,” Jacek Woroniecki Memorial Lectures (five lectures), Catholic University of Lublin, 21-26 May 2012. http://www.kul.pl/2011-2012-prof-william-sweet,art_37101.html

“La filosofia dell’arte di Jacques Maritain,” Conference on « Jacques Maritain: le arti figurative, la poesia e la musica, » Republic of San Marino, 27 April 2012.

“Religion within the limits of democracy: some models for Southeast Europe,” Croatian Philosophical Society Conference on “Philosophical Trends in Southeast Europe,” Cres, Croatia, 20 September 2011.

“Models of Religious Freedom in Democratic States,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fredericton, 31 May 2011.

“Faith and Reason and Intercultural Philosophy,” keynote paper, Conference on Thomism and Asian Cultures; Celebrating 400 Years of Dialogue Across Civilizations, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, 25 May 2011.

“Migrating Traditions and the Possibility of Intercultural Philosophy,” invited paper, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, 18 May 2011.

“Models of Religious Freedom,” invited paper, Institute of Religious Studies, Chung Yuan Christian University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, 19 May 2011.

“John Henry Newman and the Prospects for a Dialogue among Faith, Reason, and Culture,” keynote paper, Conference on “Humanity, Culture, and Transcendence,” Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, 13 May 2011.

“Migrating Traditions and the Possibility of an Intercultural Philosophy,” invited paper, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, 15 March 2011.

“Catholic Studies: Principles and Prospects,” invited round table paper, conference on “In Search of the Good in the World: Scholarly Perspectives in Conversation,” St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, 11 March 2011.

“Pluralism, Liberalism, and Apartheid,” invited lecture, Faculty of Arts lecture series, St Francis Xavier University, 9 February 2011.

“Parenting, Licensing, and Integrity,” Neil W. MacGill Memorial Lecture, University of New Brunswick, 22 November 2010.

“Freedom of Conscience and Catholic Universities,” St Dunstan’s University Board Symposium on “Democracy and Christian Faith,” Charlottetown, PEI, 20 November 2010.

“Rights after the Rights Revolution,” Alan Milne Memorial Lecture, University of Durham, UK, 8 November 2010.

“Intercultural Philosophy and Fides et ratio,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association conference on “Intercultural Philosophy and the Christian Tradition / La philosophie interculturelle et la tradition chrétienne,” Ottawa, ON, 21 October 2010.

“British Idealism as a Migrating Tradition,” R.G. Collingwood Society Conference on “The Empire of Idealism,” Monash University Conference Centre, Prato, Italy, 19-22 July 2010.

“Responding to Responses to Responding to the Enlightenment,” Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montréal, QC, 2 June 2010.

“Addressing Cultural Clash: Some Comments,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montréal, QC, 1 June 2010.

“Intercultural Philosophy and the Catholic Philosophical Traditions,” Invited paper for The International Symposium in Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Matteo Ricci 1552-1610, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, 22 April 2010.

“British Idealism as a Migrating Tradition,” Invited Special Lecture, Political Studies Association, 60th Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 March 2010.

“Religion and the Role of Democratic Values,” Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome, Italy, 21 March 2010.

“The Universality of Human Rights,” invited paper for Colloque sur «Jacques Maritain, philosophe de la personne», Rome, Italy, 18 March 2010.

“On Un laboratorio per la democrazia. L'Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain 1974-2008 by Jean-Dominique Durand”, Centre Saint Louis de France / Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain, Rome, Italy, 17 March 2010.

“Multiculturalism and Ethics,” Madras Christian College, Chennai, India, 23 February 2010. “Philosophy and Intercultural Philosophy,” Satya Nilayam, Chennai, India, 22 February 2010. “Religious Freedom,” St Stephen’s College, Delhi, India, 19 February 2010.

“Migrating Traditions and the Possibility of an Intercultural Philosophy,” Invited lecture, Jawarhal Nehru University / Centre for the Study of Civilizations, New Delhi, India, 18 February, 2010.

“Human Dignity and Freedom,” Dr. B. Ambedhkar University, Delhi, India, 17 February 2010. “The History of Philosophy and Forgotten Philosophies,” University of Madras, India, 10 February

2010.

“Parental Licensing?,” American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 8 February 2010. “Migrating Traditions and Intercultural Philosophy,” Keynote Address for Conference on ‘Universalism,

Relativism and Intercultural Philosophy,’ University of Cape Coast, Ghana, 4 February, 2010 “R.F.A. Hoernlé and Idealism in South Africa,” Keynote Address, Philosophical Society of Southern

Africa annual conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 January 2010.

“The History of Philosophy and Forgotten Philosophies,” invited paper, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Conference on ‘Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures’, Moscow, 16- 18 November 2009.

“Catholicism and Democracy,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ottawa, October 24, 2009. “Philosophy of the Person: Human Dignity and Freedom,” Invited paper, University of Santo Tomas,

Manila, Philippines, July 9, 2009.

“Human Rights in Ethics, Law, and Politics,” Invited paper, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, July 8, 2009.

“Human Dignity and Freedom,” Invited paper, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, July 8, 2009.

“Ethics, Multiculturalism and Hospitality”, Invited paper, Philippine National Philosophical Research Society, Manila, Philippines, July 8, 2009.

“Technology, Social Reality, and Philosophy,” Invited paper, Conference on The Role of Philosophy in the Development of China's Northwest, The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China, July 5, 2009.

“Hospitality, Diversity, and Unity,” Invited paper, Conference on Diversity in Unity: Harmony in a Global Age, Institute of Philosophy of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China, July 2-3, 2009.

“Modernity, Values, and Culture,” Invited paper, Conference on Enlightenment and Contemporary Reflections, Department of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China, June 28-29, 2009.

“Technology, Philosophy, and Culture,” Invited paper, Conference on The Role of Philosophy in the Development of South East Asia, Royal Academy of Cambodia and the Royal University of Phnom Penh II, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 24-25, 2009.

“Some Philosophical Issues in Parental Licensing,” Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers / Canadian Philosophical Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, May 26, 2009.

“Alvin Plantinga’s God,” Invited paper, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, May 18, 2009.

“Parenting, Licensing, and Integrity,” St Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, March 6, 2009.

“Education, Values, and the Challenges of Catholic Education Today,” St Mary’s University College, Calgary, AB, March 5, 2009.

“Religious Freedom: a conceptual overview,” invited keynote address, Conference on “Lost in Translation? Comparing Local and Global Interpretations of Religious Freedom,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 2009.

“Human Rights in Ethics, Law and Politics: some common problems,” Confserence on “Foundations of Human Rights,” Dominican University College, Ottawa, December 4-6, 2008.

“Catholic Education in Canada: Principles and Promise [Edukacja katolicka w Kanadzie: zasady i nadzieja],” Invited Address, Conference on “Catholic Education: Problems, Risks, and Rewards,” Torun, Poland, Nov. 21-22, 2008.

“Love and Dignity,” Plenary Address, Conference on “Love and Friendship,” American Maritain Association, Boston, MA, Oct. 23, 2008.

“Intelligibility and Religion,” Invited paper, Round Table on “The Deep Rationality of Religions,” the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, South Korea, August 3, 2008.

“Cross-Cultural Ethics: British Philosophy and Asia,” Session on Cross cultural Communication and the Asian Context [organised by the Chinese Philosophical Association], the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, South Korea, August 1, 2008.

“Metaphysics after Metaphysics,” Round Table of the International Society for Metaphysics on “New Perspectives for Metaphysics in 21st Century,” the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, South Korea, July 31, 2008.

“Migrating Texts and Traditions,” Invited paper, International Institute of Philosophy, the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, South Korea, July 31, 2008.

“What Remains of Modernity? Some Remarks on Philosophy and Culture in the Transition to a Global Era,” Conference on “Philosophy Emerging from Culture,” Soongsil University, Seoul / Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP), Seoul, South Korea. July 27-29, 2008.

"Bernard Bosanquet on What Religion Is and the Place of Demonstration", Academia Sinica [Taiwanese/Chinese Academy of Sciences], Taipei, Taiwan, July 23, 2008.

“Philosophies at the margins and forgotten philosophies,” Presidential Address, Canadian Philosophical Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 2, 2008.

“James, Religious Experience, and the Reasonableness of the “Right to Believe,” Symposium on “Religious Experience,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 2008.

“Dignity and Individual Freedom,” Aquinas Lecture, St Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, March 2008.

“Edith Stein’s Itinerary and ‘The Science of the Cross’,” ‘Naming the Holy’ Lecture Series, Newman Centre, University of Toronto, February 27, 2008.

“Maritain, Natural Law Theory, and Responding to Campaigns of Terror,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ottawa, November 3, 2007.

“Freedom of Conscience and Catholic Universities,” St Jerome’s University, Waterloo, ON, October, 2007.

“Culture and Ethics,” International Workshop on Culture, Values, and Practice, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19, 2007.

“Culture, Religion, and Democratic Traditions,” International Conference on Philosophy of Culture and Practice, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 16, 2007.

“William James on Mysticism and the Rationality of Religious Belief,” National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 13, 2007.

“What is it for Texts and Traditions to Migrate?,” Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taiwan, June 8, 2007.

“Hospitality as a Model for Cultural Dialogue in the Post-Modern Age,” National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 6, 2007.

“Religious Belief and Intelligibility,” Symposium on “Whence Intelligibility?,” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 29, 2007.

“Whose Dignity is it Anyway?,” Breakfast on the Hill Speaker Series, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 6th floor, Centre Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, May 10, 2007.

“Reproductive Technologies and Parental Licensing,” University of Malta, Msida, Malta, March 29, 2007.

“Hospitality and Ethics,” Conference on “Hospitality - A Paradigm of Interreligious and Intercultural Encounter,” Salzburg, Austria, 29-30 July 2006.

“Multiculturalism, Hospitality and the Canadian Context,” Conference on “Hospitality - A Paradigm of Interreligious and Intercultural Encounter,” Salzburg, Austria, 29-30 July 2006.

“On the Role of Philosophy in the Global Age: Western Perspectives,” Invited paper, Conference on “Dialogue between Asian and Western Philosophers on the Role of Philosophy in the Age of Globalization,” Institute of Philosophy, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam, June 1-3, 2006.

“Ethics in a Multicultural World,” Invited paper, Conference on “Rethinking Philosophy in a Multicultural World” / bi-annual meeting of the Korean Philosophical Association (KPA) / FISP Program Committee Meeting. Daegu, Korea, May 25-28, 2006.

“Idealism in India,” Atlantic Region Philosophical Association, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, October 28-29, 2005.

“Ethics under Idealism,” Conference on “Idealism Today,” Harris Manchester College, Oxford, 18-22 July 2005.

“Politics and Aesthetic Consciousness,” R. G. Collingwood Conference, Monk Coniston, Conistonwater, Cumbria (England), 6–9 July, 2005.

“Technology, Religion and Human Destiny,” Conference on “Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity,” University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 29 May 2005.

“Ignatieff on Rights and Individualism,” Symposium on “Michael Ignatieff and the Philosophy of Rights,” University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 30 May 2005.

“Challenges for Ethics in the Politics of New Independent States,” Conference on “Metaphilosophical Reflections – on Current Challenges of Philosophy”, Helsinki (Finland), 18-19 May 2005.

“Idealism and cross-cultural ethical dialogue,” Conference on “Dialogues among Cultures,” Seoul (Korea), 20 April 2005.

“History and Teleology,” Huafan University, Taipei (Taiwan), December 16, 2004.

“Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law in Jacques Maritain, and Some Contemporary Applications,” [9 lectures], Fu Jen University, Taipei (Taiwan), December 7-17, 2004.

“Maritain, just war theory, and campaigns of terror,” Conference on Pertinence actuelle de la théorie de la Guerre Juste, Collège dominicain de philosophie et de théologie, November 10-11, 2004.

“History and Teleology,” 2 lectures [The Principal William Miller Endowment Lectures, 2004-05], University of Madras (India), August 31, 2004.

“Religion and the Challenges of Science,”[Golden Jubilee Lectures], Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (India), August 30, 2004.

“Science and Religion,” Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Madras/Chennai (India), August 26, 2004.

“Religious Heritage and Freedom,” Conference on ‘Asian Heritage in a Global Society’, Asian Association of Catholic Philosophers, Bangkok (Thailand), August 18-20, 2004.

“The Limits of Religious Freedom,” Bangalore Academy of Philosophy, Bangalore, India, August 12, 2004.

“R.F.A. Hoernlé and Idealism in South Africa,” International Workshop on “British Idealism: Moral and Social Philosophy,” International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Pamplona (Spain), August 3, 2004.

“Secularism and Freedom of Religion in Multi-cultural Democracies,” International Conference on ‘Religions - Cultures - Globalisation: Living Together in a Global Age,’ Salzburg (Austria), July 30 - August 1, 2004.

“Cultural Integrity and Obligations,” Conference on ‘Cultural Traditions and Social Progress’, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai (P.R. China), June 29, 2004.

“Religion and the Challenges of Science,” Philosophical Encounter Circle, Taipei (Taiwan), June 12, 2004.

“What is Beauty?,” Department of Philosophy, Soochow University, Taipei (Taiwan), June 16, 2004. “Philosophy under Apartheid,” Conference on “Ideas Under Fire,” Canadian Jacques Maritain

Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada), May 2004.

“The Use of History,” History in Education, Institut for Pædagogisk Filosofi - Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet, København, Copenhagen (Denmark), March 24-25, 2004.

“A.R. Lord and Later Idealist Political Philosophy,” International Conference on Anglo-American Idealism, Peloponese (Greece), August, 2003.

“Metaphysics in Post-Modernity,” XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul (Turkey), August 17, 2003.

“Philosophy, Pluralism, and Culture,” XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul (Turkey), August 14, 2003.

“Post Colonial Philosophy, Cultural Identity, and Cultural Integrity,” XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul (Turkey), August 11, 2003.

“Making Society Civil,” Conference on “The Dialogue of Cultural Traditions: A Global Perspective,” Istanbul Kultur University, Istanbul (Turkey), August 8, 2003.

“Individuality, Relationality, and the Human Person,” Keynote Address, Conference on Metaphysics and Mysticism, Rome (Italy), July 3, 2003.

“Bosanquet, Collingwood, and Historicism,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, June 1, 2003.

“Edith Stein: Knowledge, Mysticism and the Person,” invited paper for Conference on Mysticism, Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh, Keserouan, Lebanon, May 2003.

“Alvin Plantinga’s God,” International Congress on «La philosophie et la question de Dieu», Université Laval, Québec, 10-12 April 2003.

“Catholic Universities, Freedom of Religion, and Human Rights,” Jean Mathieu Soulerin Memorial Lecture, University of St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, November 22, 2002.

“On Being Human: from ‘refined observation’ to metaphysics” Canadian Jacques Maritain Association [Presidential Address], Saint Paul University, Ottawa, October 25, 2002.

“Maritain and Freedom of Conscience,” American Maritain Association, Princeton University, October 2002.

“Individuality and Human Personhood: from ‘refined observation’ to metaphysics,” Institute for Metaphysical and Mystical Studies, New York, NY, September 2002.

“Idealism and Pluralism,” Hoernlé Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa), August 30, 2002.

“Freedom of Religion and the Justification of Violence,” Asian Association of Catholic Philosophers, Akademia Park, Kisarazu-shi, Chiba (Japan), August 21, 2002.

“Being Human,” Philosophy Encounter Circle, Taipei (Taiwan) August 16, 2002.

“Wittgenstein on Religion,” Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, Chennai (India), August 14, 2002.

“Does Science Contradict Religion?,” Satya Nilayam (Jesuit ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy), Chennai (India), August 13, 2002.

“Evolution, Science, and Religion [I and II],” Dr S. Radhakrishnan Endowment Lectures, Madras Christian College, August 12, 2002.

“What it is to be a Person,” Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (India), August 9, 2002.

“The Relevance of Philosophy to the Study of Culture,” Rani Durgavadi University, Jabalpur (India), August 6, 2002.

“Absolute Idealism and the Nature of the Self,” Conference on Mysticism, Reason, Art, and Literature: East West Perspectives, Calcutta, India, July 31, 2002.

“Wittgenstein on Religion,” University of Dhaka, Dev Centre for Philosophical Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 24, 2002.

“Economics, Social Science, and Moral Philosophy,” Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 24, 2002.

“Anatomy of Corruption: Philosophical Perspectives,” [Roundtable presentation], Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 23, 2002.

“Philosophy, Pluralism, and Culture,” University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 22, 2002. “Alvin Plantinga’s God,” Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of Canterbury,

Christchurch, New Zealand, July 10, 2002.

“Neo-classical Economics, Social Science, and Moral Philosophy,” Western Economic Association International, 77th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June 30, 2002.

“Evolution, Science, and Religion,” Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers [Presidential Address], Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto, May 28, 2002.

“South African Philosophers, Cultural Diversity, and Political Practice,” Tel Aviv University, Israel, December 26, 2001.

“Idealism and Rights--and challenges to it,” Book symposium on Idealism and Rights by William Sweet, Political Studies Association - British Idealism Research Group/ Collingwood and British Idealism Research Centre, Gregynog, Wales, December 18, 2001.

Lectures on “Religious Belief and Demonstration: The Contemporary Debate,” Dharma Endowment Lectures (2001-2002), [6 lectures] Dharmaram College, Bangalore, India, November 12-13, 2001.

“Idealism, Bosanquet, and Aesthetics,” 15th International Congress of Aesthetics on “Aesthetics at the 21st Century,” Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan, August 27, 2001.

“The Methods of Metaphysics,” Colloquium on ‘Philosophy, Methodology, and our World,’ Philosophical Encounter Circle, Holy Spirit Seminary College, Hong Kong, China, August 21-24, 2001.

“South African Philosophers, Pluralism, and Apartheid,” invited paper for the conference “Philosophy, Pluralism, and Culture,” organized by the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Université Laval, May 25, 2001.

“Universal Human Rights and Cultural Integrity,” invited paper for International Conference on Human Rights and Dialogue of Civilizations, (organised by Mofid University, Qom), Tehran (Iran), May 5-6, 2001

“Theories of Rights and Political and Legal Instruments,” invited paper for International Seminar on “Politics and Ethics,” Academy of Sciences (Georgian Republic) Institute of Politology, Tbilisi (Georgia), May 1-2, 2001.

“Science and Religion,” Academy Day lecture in honour of St Thomas Aquinas, Vijnananilayam Institute of Philosophy and Theology (affiliated to Andhra University), Eluru, A.P., India, January 23, 2001.

“Cultural Integrity and Liberty Rights,” University of Pune, India, January 19, 2001.

“What is it like to be a person? An idealist perspective,” University of Pune, India, January 16, 2001. “Two Post-Rawlsian Liberals,” University of Pune, India, January 15, 2001.

“Idealism: West and East,” University of Pune, India, January 9, 2001.

“Cultural Integrity and Liberty Rights,” invited paper, International Conference on Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and Freedom, (Afro-Asian Philosophy Association), New Delhi (India), January 1, 2001.

“Canadian and Indian Idealism,” Indian Philosophical Congress Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, New Delhi (India), January 1, 2001.

“Misconceptions about the Origins of Bosanquet's Metaphysics,” invited paper, Conference on British Idealism at the Millennium, The Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, Cardiff University, Gregynog, Tregynon (Newtown) Powys, Wales, December 14-16, 2000.

“Is Tradition Old-fashioned?,” Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology, Ottawa, ON, December 3, 2000.

“Philosophical Foundations, Cultural Integrity and Human Rights,” invited paper, Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, Soochow University, Taipei, November 28, 2000.

“Philosophy, Culture, and the Future of Tradition,” invited paper for Conference on Christian Philosophy and Chinese Culture, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei (Taiwan), November 24, 2000.

“Globalization, Cultural Integrity and ‘Participative Construction’,” invited paper, seminar, Council on Research and Values in Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, October 27, 2000.

“Religious Belief, Political Culture, and Community,” American Maritain Association annual meeting, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA), October 19-22, 2000.

“‘Christian Philosophy’ and J. H. Newman,” World Conference on Metaphysics - “Metaphysics for the Third Millennium,” Rome (Italy), September 5-8, 2000.

“Metaphysics and Cross-Cultural Truth in Religion,” World Conference on Metaphysics - “Metaphysics for the Third Millennium,” Rome (Italy), September 5-8, 2000

“Religious Pluralism, Cross-Cultural Truth in Religion, and Christianity,” Association for Reformational Philosophy-International Symposium, Hoeven (the Netherlands), August 22, 2000.

“Idealist Social Policy and Liberalism,” [Workshop on “Liberal Political Philosophy and Rights from the 18th to 20th Century”] VIIth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen (Norway), August 14-18, 2000.

“Bosanquet’s Logic and the Relation between Society and the Individual,” [Workshop on “British Idealism and European Philosophy”] VIIth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen (Norway), August 14-18, 2000.

“Faith, demonstration, and the epistemic character of religious belief in J.H. Newman,” XVIII Congress, International Association for the History of Religion, Durban (South Africa), August 2000.

“Religious Belief, Meaning, and Argument,” XVIII Congress, International Association for the History of Religion, Durban (South Africa), August 7, 2000.

“Solidarity and Human Rights,” Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, (South Africa), July 26, 2000.

“Globalization, ecumenism, and the possibility of a global ethic,” International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics, 2nd World Congress, São Paulo (Brazil), July 19-23, 2000.

“Global Markets, Moral Theory, and Arguing for Economic Justice,” Conference on ‘Rethinking Wealth Creation and Distribution in the Jubilee: A Double Challenge for Catholic Social Thought and Management Education,’ Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla (Mexico), July 12-14, 2000.

“Religious Belief and Demonstration in J.H. Newman,” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Annual Congress, Conference of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, May 25, 2000.

“Walking the Gangplank? (Book Symposium on H. Hart and K. Nielsen, Walking the Tightrope of Faith: Philosophical Conversations about Reason and Religion)” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Conference of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, May 24, 2000.

“Natural Law and Human Rights,” Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei (Taiwan, R.O.C.), January 10, 2000.

“The Future of Tradition,” Faculty of Philosophy, University of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), January 3, 2000.

“Newman and Maritain on the Ways of Knowing God,” American Maritain Association, Berkeley, California (USA), October 24, 1999.

“Maritain, Newman et les voies de la connaissance de Dieu,” Centre Indépendent de Recherche Philosophique, Toulouse (France), August 30, 1999.

“Victorian Society, Liberalism, and British Idealism,” Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), August 23, 1999.

“Science and Religion,” University of Lucknow (India), August 20, 1999.

“Philosophy and Globalization,” Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai (India), August 18, 1999.

“Scientific and Religious Truth in a Cross-Cultural Setting,” University of Madras, Chennai (India), August 17, 1999.

“The Compatibility of Science and Religion,” University of Madras (India), August 17, 1999. “Science and Religion in Conflict,” University of Madras (India), August 16, 1999.

“Maritain, Solidarity, and Human Rights,” Ateneo de Manila University, Manila (Philippines), August 11, 1999.

“Scientific and Religious Truth in a Cross Cultural Setting,” Ateneo de Manila University, Manila (Philippines), August 10, 1999.

“Globalization, Philosophy, and Ecumenism,” University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), August 5, 1999.

“Scientific and Religious Truth in a Cross-Cultural Setting,” Australian Catholic University, Melbourne (Australia), August 2, 1999.

“British Idealism and University Education in India,” University of the South Pacific, Suva (Fiji) July 27, 1999.

“Pluralisme culturel et la situation occidentale de la philosophie dans ‘Fides et ratio’,”L’association canadienne de philosophie, Université de Sherbrooke, QC, June 6, 1999.

“Wittgenstein, le fidéisme wittgensteinien et la nature des croyances religieuses,” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Annual Congress, Conference of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, June 4, 1999.

“Practical Ethics and Idealism,” Invited lecture to The Royal Institute of Philosophy, University of Wales, Cardiff (Wales), March 22, 1999.

“Social Policy and Bosanquet's Social Philosophy,” Invited paper for the Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association, University of Nottingham, Nottingham (England), March 23-25, 1999.

“Religious Belief and Community,” Institute of Christian Studies, Toronto, ON, March 19, 1999. “Philosophy, Community, and the Model of Ecumenism,” invited paper for Round Table session on

“The Future of Value Inquiry,” XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA (U.S.A.), August 14, 1998.

“Bosanquet, Culture, and the Influence of Idealist Logic,” XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA (U.S.A.), August 13, 1998.

“Maritain, Solidarity, and Human Rights,” invited paper for Conference on “Human Rights: Philosophical Perspectives,” organised by the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, May 29, 1998.

“Comments on ‘Hobbes, Machiavelli, Bacon,’” 1998 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), (Political Theory Section), University of Ottawa, May 31, 1998.

“Comments on Hart on Philosophy and Theology,” Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) Annual Congress, University of Ottawa, May 28, 1998.

“Comments on Walters on MacIntyre and Gewirth,” 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Canadian Section), University of Ottawa, May 27, 1998.

“The Call to Solidarity and the Role of Human Rights,” invited lecture, St Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, February 2, 1998.

“The Origins of Evidentialism in Religious Belief,” invited lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, February 2, 1998.

“Persons, Connatural Knowledge, and the Universality of Natural Law,” XVIIIth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ottawa, ON, November 1, 1997.

“Paley, Whately and Evidentialism,” Conference on ‘Deism and Atheism in the Enlightenment,’ Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), July 25, 1997.

“Bernard Bosanquet and the Nature of Religious Belief,” Conference on Anglo-American Idealism 1865-1927, Manchester College, University of Oxford (England), July 3, 1997.

“Richard Whately and the Origin of Foundationalism in Religious Belief,” Conference on “God and Argument,” organised by the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Conference of Learned Societies, Memorial University, St John’s, NF, June 2, 1997.

“Religious Belief, Meaning, and Argument,” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Annual Congress, Conference of Learned Societies, Memorial University, St John’s, NF, June 3, 1997.

“Bernard Bosanquet et les droits de la personne,” Centre de Recherche en Ethique Sociale, Université du Québec à Montréal, February 28, 1997.

“Les droits de l’homme comme fondement de la solidarité: A partir de la pensée de Jacques Maritain,” Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), December 17, 1996.

“Can there be Universal Human Rights?” University of Pune (India), December 3, 1996. “Idealism, Panpsychism, and the Value of the Person,” invited paper for the Indian Philosophical

Congress, 71st session, and World Philosophers Meeting, Pune (India), November 27, 1996. “Religious Belief and Argument,” University of Madras (India), November 18, 1996.

“Human Rights and Cultural Diversity,” University of Bombay (India), November 15, 1996. “Religious Belief and Rationality,” St Pius College, Bombay (India), November 15, 1996.

“‘Absolute Idealism’ and Finite Individuality,” Flinders-Adelaide Research Seminar, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide (Australia), November 8, 1996.

“Religious Discourse and Knowledge,” Hoger Institut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholike Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (Belgium), October 10, 1996.

“Discourse and the Nature of Religious Truth,” Conference on ‘The Nature of Truth,’ Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (Czech Republic), September 17, 1996.

“Religious Knowledge and Religious Truth,” Centre for Religious Studies, Vilnius University (Lithuania), September 12, 1996.

“A Defense of Universal Human Rights,” Faculty of Philosophy, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg (Russia), September 10, 1996.

“Human Rights and Pluralism,” Department of Practical Philosophy, University of Latvia (Riga), September 2, 1996.

“Natural Law, Human Freedom and Economic Justice,” Vth World Congress of Christian Philosophy,

Catholic University of Lublin, (Poland), August 23, 1996

“Herbert Spencer’s Liberalism and the Defence of Natural Rights,” Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht (Netherlands), August 20, 1996.

“Religious Belief and Religious Knowledge,” Deakin University, Toorak Campus (Australia), August 10, 1996.

“Discourse and the Nature of Religious Truth,” Institute of Applied Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne (Australia), August 8, 1996.

“Religious Discourse and the Religious Knowledge, Centre for Religion and Theology, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia), August 8, 1996.

“MacIntyre’s Anti-foundationalism and Moral Practice,” Australiasian Association of Philosophy Annual Congress, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), July 12, 1996.

“Religious Knowledge and Religious Discourse,” Conference on “Knowledge and Discourse,” The University of Hong Kong (China), June 18-21, 1996.

“The Bases of Ethics: Some Conclusions,” invited paper for the conference “The Bases of Ethical Theory,” organized by the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, May 31, 1996.

“Meaning, Truth and Religious Practice,” 1996 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Canadian Section), Brock University, St Catharines, ON, May 29, 1996.

“Bosanquet’s Criticisms of Mill’s Analysis of Rights,” Colloque “L’utilitarisme: analyse et histoire,” Faculté des Sciences Économiques et Sociales, Université de Lille 1 (France), 25-26 January 1996.

“Maritain’s Criticisms of Natural Law Theories,” XVIth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ottawa, ON, October 28, 1995.

“Religious Belief and the Influence of Technology,” Society for Philosophy and Technology, VIIIth Biennial Meeting, Hofstra University (New York), June 10, 1995.

“British Idealism and the Value of the Individual,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 6, 1995.

“The Foundations of Ethics and Moral Practice,” invited paper for the conference “The Bases of Ethics,” organized by the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 6, 1995.

“Idealism and British Liberalism,” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Political Theory Section, Université du Québec à Montréal, June 6, 1995.

“Can there be Moral Knowledge?” Professor Henry Herbert Glasmacher Lecture, Saint Paul University (Ottawa), October 28, 1994.

“Was Bosanquet a Hegelian?,” invited paper for the conference, “Hegel and British Idealism,” organized by The Hegel Society of Great Britain, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, (England), September 9, 1994.

“Bosanquet and British Political Thought,” invited paper for the conference, “Idealism in the Twentieth Century”, organized by The British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, (England), September 7, 1994.

“Is Later British Idealist Political Theory Fundamentally Conservative?,” IVth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz (Austria), August 26, 1994.

“New Paradigms in the Philosophy of Religion,” IVth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz (Austria), August 23, 1994.

“Bernard Bosanquet on the Nature of Religious Belief”, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR), University of Calgary, June 8, 1994.

“Foundationalism, Evidentialism and J. Maritain,” Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), January 7, 1994.

“Post-Modern Epistemology and the Rationality of Religious Belief,” Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), January 6, 1994.

“Clifford, James and Maritain on Religious Belief,” XIVth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association (CJMA), Ottawa, ON, October 30, 1993.

“F.H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet on the Nature and Value of the Individual,” XIXth World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow (Russia), August 23, 1993.

“Law, Liberty and Autonomy in Mill and Bosanquet,” Xth International Conference on Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki (Finland), August 18, 1993.

“Autonomy, Authority and the Law in 19th Century Political Thought” 1993 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), (Political Theory Section), Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, June 8, 1993.

“Hendrik Hart and the ‘Rationality’ of Religious Belief” 1993 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, (Canadian Section), Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, May 30, 1993.

“Mill and Bosanquet on Autonomy and the Law,” School of Economics and Social Studies, Politics and Philosophy Sectors, University of East Anglia, Norwich (England), March 4, 1993.

“Maritain, Post-Modern Epistemologies and the Rationality of Religious Belief,” XIIIth Annual Meeting of the CJMA, Ottawa, ON, October 31, 1992.

“Is there a Relation between Technology and Religious Belief?,” International Conference on Science and Belief (Workshop on Meta-Science), Pascal Centre, Ancaster, ON, August 11-15, 1992.

“Liberalism, Bosanquet and the Theory of the State,” IXth International Conference on Social Philosophy, Davidson, NC (USA), August 2, 1992.

“Technology and Change of Religious Belief,” Annual Meeting of the CSSR, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, June 8, 1992.

“‘Society’ and ‘State’ in Bernard Bosanquet,” Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Philosophical Association, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, October 19, 1991.

“Does the Discourse of Rights Presuppose a Liberal Individualist Paradigm of Political Philosophy?”, VIIth International Conference on Social Philosophy, Colorado Springs, CO (USA), August 10, 1991.

“Bernard Bosanquet on Society and the State,” Annual Meeting of the CPSA, (Political Theory Section),

Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, June 2, 1991

“Falsification, Rationality and Religious Belief,” (with C.B. O’Connell) Annual Meeting of the CSSR, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, May 29, 1991.

“Fideism, Empiricism and Religious Belief,” University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, January 25, 1991.

“Hobbes, Jaume et les droits de la personne,” 58th Congress of l’Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences (ACFAS) and 17th Congress of la Société de Philosophie du Québec (SPQ), Université Laval, Québec, QC, May 1990.

“Bernard Bosanquet and the Development of Rousseau’s Idea of the General Will,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS), Montréal, QC, October 1989.

“Les ‘droits naturels’ et les ‘titres’ selon Robert Nozick,” Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) Annual Congress, Université Laval, Québec, QC, May 1989.

“Individualisme, Maritain et Bosanquet,” 54th Congress of l’ACFAS and 13th Congress of la SPQ, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, May 1986.

“Some Reflections on Equality Rights,” International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Canadian Section, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, June 1985.

“Comments on ‘Faith and Reason: A Consideration of Logical Options’,” CPA Annual Congress, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, June 1982.

“How not to Criticize the Right to Liberty,” Philosophy Faculty Seminar, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, February 1981.

“Dworkin on Rawls and Rights,” Philosophy Faculty Seminar, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, November 1980.

“Bosanquet on Individual Rights,” Philosophy Department Seminar, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, March 1980.

“Human Reason and its Role in Humanities and Social Science,” Carleton University Philosophical Society, Ottawa, ON, February 1979.

“Religious Belief as Absolute and Non-hypothetical,” Graduate Conference in Philosophy, The American University, Washington, D.C. (USA), October 1976.

Public Talks:

“Ethics and the Ethics Consult Process in the NSHA,” Eastern Zone Leadership Forum / Management Team (NSHA), January 9, 2018.

“One Model of Theological Integration,” Diaconate Formation Program, Port Hawkesbury, January 10, 2018.

"Counter Reformation and Catholic Reformation," Epistles of St Paul Lecture Series, St Paul’s Anglican Church, Antigonish, NS, November 2017.

“Catholicism, the Catholic Church, and Gender Identity,” Western Cape Breton Challenge Movement, Mabou, NS, 11 September 2017.

“Spiritual Development: The Trinity,” Canadian Catholic Youth Minister Network, Annual General Meeting, Mabou, NS, 20 June 2017.

“Spiritual Reflection: The Trinity,” St Vincent de Paul Society, Antigonish, NS, 6 June 2017. “Catholic Education in Canada Today,” St Agnes Church, Halifax, 25 April, 2017.

“World Philosophies of Ethics: Buddhism,” Public Lecture, World Philosophy Day, St Francis Xavier University, 18 November 2016.

“Nature and Creation: Pope Francis on Care for our Common Home,” Round table Participant, St Francis Xavier University, January 28, 2016.

“Whose Death is it Anyway?: Law, Ethics, and the End of Life,” “Theology on Tap” lecture series, St Francis Xavier University, October 22, 2015.

“What Christianity adds to science,” Atlantic Regional Conference of the Canadian Catholic Students’ Association, St Francis Xavier University, November 6-8, 2015.

“The Supreme Court and the End of Life: the issues for Christians today,” Round Table participant, St Ninian’s Cathedral, Antigonish, NS, 30 September 2015.

"Transhumanism and the Theology of the Body," Epistles of St Paul Lecture Series, St Paul’s Anglican Church, Antigonish, NS, January 2015.

“Jacques Maritain, Human Rights, and Human Nature,” Invited talk, ‘Classics for Classics’ series, St Francis Xavier University, July 2014.

“Liberal or Conservative? Jacques Maritain and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Humanities Colloquium Capstone Lecture, St Francis Xavier University, April 4, 2014.

“Diversity in Philosophies and the Prospect of an Intercultural Philosophy,” Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, China, March 30, 2014.

“Religious Freedom: Before and After Vatican II,” St Ninian’s Cathedral Lecture Series, Antigonish, NS, 27 March 2013.

“Religious Freedom: Toleration, Liberty, or Right?,” Epistles of St Paul Lecture Series, St Paul’s Anglican Church, Antigonish, NS, 11 September 2012.

“A Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Fundamentalism” and “Thomistic Philosophy Today: Relevance and Challenges,” Satya Nilayam / Sacred Heart College, Chennai, India, 2 August 2012.

“Western Christianity: Challenges and Opportunities,” Round Table Discussion for Faculty, Satya Nilayam / Sacred Heart College, Chennai, India, 2 August 2012.

“Catholic Social Thought and Religious Freedom,” “Theology on Tap” lecture series, St Francis Xavier University, March 2012.

“The Legacy of Aristotelian Ethics,” Invited talk, ‘Classics for Classics’ series, St Francis Xavier University, July 15, 2011.

“Politics and Aesthetic Consciousness in British Idealism,” Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, 15 March 2011.

“Issues in Research Administration from the Perspective of SSHRC-funded scholars,” CAURA (East) conference, Nova Scoitia Agricultural College, 19 November 2010.

“Freedom of Religion,” (2 classes), Dharmaram Vidya Kshetam/Pontifical Athaneum, Bangalore, India, 16 February 2010.

“Ethics and Morals in Catholicism,” Atlantic Regional Conference of the Canadian Catholic Students’ Association, St Francis Xavier University, November 6-8, 2009. [with R. Kennedy]

“Catholic Education Quo Vadis? Present problems, future hope,” St Patrick’s Basilica, Ottawa, October 26, 2009.

“Catholic Education: Principles and Prospects,” St Dunstan’s University Lecture Series, Charlottetown, PEI, October 15, 2009.

“Catholic Education Today,” “Faith in the Market Square” Lecture Series, Diocese of Saint John / Bl John XXIII Centre in Catholic Thought, St Thomas University, Saint John, NB, March 26, 2009.

“Is Religion an Impediment to Spirituality?,” “Faith in the Market Square” Lecture Series, Diocese of Saint John / Bl John XXIII Centre in Catholic Thought, St Thomas University, Saint John, NB, November 6, 2008.

“Ethical Issues in the Health Care System,” Community Health Board, GASHA district, Port Hawkesbury, NS, May 2007.

“Dialogue and the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: a response,” Conference on the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, St Francis Xavier University, September 2006.

“Jacques Maritain, Persons, and the Common Good,” Class on Catholic Social Teaching (CATH 200), St Francis Xavier University, January 2005.

“Preserving Culture,” Class on the Philosophy of Culture, Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology, Ottawa, April 17, 2001.

“Politics, the general will, and aesthetic consciousness in British Idealism”, Arts IV, St Francis Xavier University, January 24, 2001.

“Faith and Reason in Newman’s Thought,” Newman Centre Lecture Series, McGill University, Montreal, March 5, 2001.

“Religion and Science: two lectures,” Vijnananilayam Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Eluru, A.P., India, January 24-25, 2001.

“Closing Address,” Conference on Ethics in Health Care, St Francis Xavier University, May 22, 1999. “Is Religion an Impediment to Spirituality?,” Chaplaincy Lecture Series, St Francis Xavier University,

February 9, 1999.

“Thomas Merton and Mysticism,” Chaplaincy Lecture Series, St Francis Xavier University, February 5, 1996.

“Bradley, Bosanquet and the Value of the Self,” Philosophy Department Seminar, St Francis Xavier University, December 1, 1995.

“What is Truth?” Science Forum, St Francis Xavier University, November 24, 1995.

“Social Justice,” Four workshops for the Coady International Institute, St Francis Xavier University, October - November 1995.

“Bosanquet’s Criticisms of Mill’s Theory of Rights,” St Francis Xavier University Philosophy Society, November 6, 1995.

“Ethical Theories and Moral Decision Making,” Class in Business Administration (BSAD 358 - Business and Society), St Francis Xavier University, February, 1995.

“Philosophy and the Foundation of Ethics,” Arts IV Lecture series, St Francis Xavier University, January 1995.

“Comments on ‘Constitutionalism in the Institutional Church: A Divisive Myth?’,” Conference on “Law, Authority and Consent in the Roman Catholic Tradition,” Institute of Human Values, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, October 1994.

“Relativism, Objectivism and Subjectivism in Ethics,” Class in Business Administration, (BSAD 358 - Business and Society), St Francis Xavier University, October 1993.

“What Technology tells us about Religious Belief,” Chaplaincy Lecture Series, St Francis Xavier University, January 1993.

“Le siècle des lumières et le Second discours de Rousseau,” Class in 18th Century French Literature, St Francis Xavier University, November 1991.

“Falsification, Rationality and Religious Belief,” St Francis Xavier University Philosophy Society, March 1991.

“Aquinas and Natural Law,” Class in History of Political Thought (PSCI 200 - History of Political Thought), St Francis Xavier University, January 1991.

Panel Participant: “Le prix de la confiance”, (Lancement du pélérinage des étudiants à Chartres), Communautés chrétiennes de Paris (Cep), Paris, March 1987.

“Contemporary Liberal Democratic Views of Rights, the Person, and Society,” Graduate Seminar in Moral Theology, Saint Paul University, March 1984.

Memberships:

Royal Society of Canada (elected Fellow) Royal Historical Society (elected Fellow) Royal Asiatic Society (elected Fellow)

Society for the Philosophy of Religion (elected member) Canadian Philosophical Association

Asian Association of Catholic Philosophers Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers Canadian Jacques Maritain Association American Maritain Association

The R.G. Collingwood Society The Bradley Society

International Council for Social Philosophy (India)

Interviews / Media:

Interview on St Francis Xavier University, CTV Atlantic, June 2017. Interview on Mother Teresa, CTV Atlantic, February 2016.

Interview on Pope Francis, NBC News (United States), August 2013. Interview on Pope Francis and St Francis Xavier, CTV Atlantic, March 2013.

Interview on funding of religiously-affiliated institutions, Hamilton Spectator and Guelph Mercury

newspapers, February 2011.

Interview on Parental Licensing, CBC Radio (Fredericton, NB); rebroadcast CBC Radio Halifax, November 22, 2010.

Interview on Dignity and Contemporary Politics, “Talk Politics,” Canadian Parliamentary Access Channel (CPAC), May 2007.  http://www.cpac.ca/asx/show_tp_may27-07_eng.asx

Interview on recent episcopal appointment to Ottawa, Sun Media Group/Ottawa Sun newspaper, May 2007.

Interview on Surveillance and the Right to Privacy, ATV/ASN Maritime Television, (CTV affiliate) September 2002.

Interview on bioethics and health care, ATV/ASN Maritime Television, (CTV affiliate) September 2002. Interview on the moral response to terrorism, newspapers: The Globe and Mail; Evening News (New

Glasgow); Reporter (Port Hawkesbury); Casket (Antigonish); television: ATV/ASN Maritime Television, (CTV affiliate); radio: CIGO (Port Hawkesbury); CJFX (Antigonish), CKEC radio (New Glasgow), September 2001.

Subject of a chapter in The Future of Religion: Christians on the Brink, by Bob Harvey, Ottawa: Novalis, 2001, pp. 116-124.

Interview on metaphysics for Radio Vaticana (Vatican City International Radio Network), Rome, May 9, 2001.

Interview on the dialogue of civilizations for Iranian National Television and for Iranian television channels 6 and 7, Tehran, Iran, May 5, 2001.

Interview on the Christian practice of Lent for news article syndicated by The Canadian Press / Southam News Service (Canada), February 2001 [The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001; Canadian Press Newswire, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001; Cape Breton Post, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2001; Times Colonist (Victoria), Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2001; The Peterborough Examiner, Saturday, March 3, 2001; The Edmonton Journal, Saturday, March 3, 2001; The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Saturday, March 3, 2001.]

Subject of an interview and feature article on ‘Christianity at the turn of the millennium,’ November 1999. [Ottawa Citizen, December 28, 1999, p. 3]

Interview on philosophy for Doordarshan Kendra (Indian National Television Network), Pune, India, November 1996.

Interview on the concept of loyalty for news article syndicated by The Canadian Press / Southam News Service (Canada), March 1996 [The Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, March 2, 1996; The Montreal Gazette, Sunday, March 3, 1996; Canadian Press Newswire, Tuesday, March 26, 1996; The Edmonton Journal, Saturday, March 30, 1996.]

Interview on the Papal encyclical Veritatis splendor, ATV/ASN Maritime Television, (CTV affiliate) October 1993.

Interview on Philosophy at the Learned Societies, CBC Radio - Charlottetown, PEI, June 1992. Interview on “Philosophy for Children,” Maritime Independent Television (New Brunswick/Nova

Scotia), January 1992.

Interview on “Vatican Investigation of the Work of Fr. André Guindon,” Maritime Independent Television (New Brunswick/Nova Scotia), January 1992.

Panelist on “Under Attack,” CTV Television Network, February 1974.

Service to the Profession:

Grant Review and Awards [Grant Review Committees] (National Level)

Chair (2002-03) and Committee member, Committee 1, Standard Research and Dissemination Grants Programs, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2001-03.

Chair (2008) and Committee member, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005; 2007-8.

Committee member, Public Outreach Grants Program adjudication, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2011-12.

Committee member, Adjudication of Partnership Grants (LOI and Formal Application) adjudication, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2014-15.

External Assessment of Academic Programmes

External Assessor for Department of Philosophy, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, February 2017.

Chair, Provincially-appointed [Post-Secondary Education Quality Assessment Board] Review Panel to review proposed BA (Catholic Studies) program, Province of Ontario, April 2016.

Chair, Provincially-appointed [Post-Secondary Education Quality Assessment Board] Review Panel to review proposed BA (Christian Humanities) program, Province of Ontario, September 2015.

External Assessor for Department of Philosophy, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, 2012.

External Assessor for graduate and undergraduate programmes in philosophy, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval, Québec, QC, March 2011.

External Assessor for Department of Philosophy, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, 2008. External Assessor for Department of Philosophy, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, QC, 2005.

External Assessor for Department of Philosophy, St Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, 2004.

External Assessment for Promotion in Academic Rank

External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, University of Winnipeg, 2016. External Assessor for application for tenure, St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, SK, 2011. External Assessor for application for promotion, University of Prince Edward Island, 2011. External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, Lebanese American University, 2010. External Assessor for application for promotion and tenure, St. John’s University, New York, 2009.

External Assessor for application for promotion and tenure, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, 2009. External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, Australian Catholic University, 2008. External Assessor for application for tenure, University of Windsor, 2006.

External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, Australian Catholic University, 2004. External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, King's College, University of Western

Ontario, 2002.

External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, Australian Catholic University, 2003. External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, Ryerson University (Toronto), 2002. External Assessor for application for formal recognition as an academic researcher, National Research

Foundation (South Africa), 2002.

External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, Australian Catholic University, 2002. External Assessor for application for promotion to Professor, University of Papua New Guinea, 2000.

Service on International Conference Programme Committees

Co-Chair, Sections on « Intercultural Philosophy » and « Christian Philosophy », XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, China, August 2018.

Member of the Scientific Board, Fifth World Congress of the Conférence Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie, Universidad Santo Tomas, Bogotá, Colombia, 4-9 July, 2017.

Member of the “Comitato Scientifico,” VI World Congress of Metaphysics, Salamanca, Spain (November 12-14, 2015), http://www. romemetaphysics.org/

Co-Chair, Section on « Christian Philosophy », XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, Greece, August 2018.

Member of the “Comitato Scientifico,” V World Congress of Metaphysics, Rome, Italy (November 14- 18, 2012), http://www. romemetaphysics.org/

Member of the “Comitato Scientifico,” IV World Congress of Metaphysics, Rome, Italy (November 5-7, 2009), http://www.metaphysics2009.org/

Member of the International Program Committee, XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, Korea 2004-08, http://www.wcp2008.or.kr/congress/congress_01.asp

Member of the Scientific Committee, Fourth International Conference on Human Rights, Qom, Iran (May, 2009), 2008-09.

Section Chair: “Comparative Philosophy” [section 8] and “Philosophy of Values” [section 49], XXII World Congress of Philosophy, 2006-08

Member of the Scientific Committee, Krisis - II Fórum de Filosofia Contemporânea, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005)

Member of the Scientific Committee, Second Conference on the Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights, Qom, Iran (May, 2003), 2001-2003.

Member of the “Comitato Scientifico,” Conference on Metaphysics and Mystical Philosophy, Rome, Italy (July, 2003), 2001-2003.

Scholarly Conferences (International and National) Organised:

Principal Organiser, International Conference on “Realism and Antirealism in Ethics and Religion,” Ottawa, Ontario, May 30-31, 2015.

Principal Organiser, International Conference on “Religion, Philosophy, and the Question of a Clash of Cultures,” Montreal, Quebec, May 31-June 1, 2010.

Co-Chair, 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences [University of New Brunswick/St Thomas University], 2007-08.

Principal Organiser, International Conference on “Migrating Texts and Traditions,” Toronto, Ontario, May 30-31, 2006.

Principal Organiser, International Workshop on “British Idealism: Moral and Social Philosophy,” International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Pamplona, Spain, August 3, 2004.

Principal Organiser, International Conference on “Philosophy, Religion, and Democracy,” Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 31-June 1, 2003.

Principal Organiser, Round Tables on “Identity in Crisis” and “Rights, Responsibilities and Traditions,” XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 10 and 15, 2003.

Principal Organiser, International Conference on “Science and Religion,” Toronto, Ontario, May 26-27, 2002.

Principal Organiser, International Conference on “Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism / Philosophie, culture, pluralisme,” Université Laval, Québec City, May 2001.

Principal Organiser, Workshops on “Metaphysics in the Third Millennium,” Rome, Italy, September 8- 10, 2000; co-organiser, jubilee conference on Metaphysics, Rome, September 5-10, 2000 .

Principal Organiser, Workshop on “Liberal Political Thought and Rights from the 18th to 20th Century,” International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), University of Bergen, Norway, August 14-18, 2000.

Principal Organiser and Programme Chair, International Conference on “The Philosophy of History: a reexamination / La philosophie de l'histoire,” University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 25-26, 2000.

Principal Organiser, 1999 International Conference on Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, September 1-2, 1999.

Principal Organiser, 1998 Atlantic Region Philosophical Association Conference, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, October 16-17, 1998.

Principal Organiser, Symposium on ‘Bosanquet and Idealism,' Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Conference of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Ottawa, May 1998.

Service on National Conference Programme Committees

Member of the Manuscript Selection and Programme Committee, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, 1997-2000.

Member of the Manuscript Selection and Programme Committee; member of the CPA Student Essay Prize Committee / Comité pour le prix d'étudiant, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, 1999-2000.

Member of the Programme Committee, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association Symposium, conference on “Ideas Under Fire” 2004; conference on “Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity” 2005.

Member of the Manuscript Selection and Programme Committee; Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers Annual Congress, 1991-2005.

Project Review and Evaluation

Member, Presidential Task Force on Program Prioritization, St Francis Xavier University, 2013-2014. Member, Academic Priorities and Planning Committee, St Francis Xavier University, 2012-2015.

External Assessor, Killam Research Fellowships, Canada Council for the Arts, 2010-11.

Internal Assessor for SSHRC – Bombardier M.A. scholarships, St Francis Xavier University, 2013. External Assessor for research grant proposal on the Philosophy of Edith Stein, Swiss National Science

Foundation (SNSF), 2008.

Chair, St. Francis Xavier University Advisory Committee on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Transformation Process, 2004

External Assessor for university faculty research grant proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003-04.

External Assessor for university faculty research grant proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2000-01.

External Assessor for university faculty research grant proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1998-99.

External Assessor for the Bora Laskin National Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1997.

External Assessor for university faculty research grant proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1997.

External Examining of Theses / Dissertations

PhD thesis examiner for Universities of York (UK), Ottawa (Canada), Dominican University (Ottawa, Canada), Laval (Quebec), Macquarrie University (Sydney, Australia), Australian Catholic University (Melbourne, Australia), Karachi (Pakistan), Madras (India), Andra (India), Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai), Pondicherry University (India), and Sri Venkateswara University (India).

MA and M Phil comprehensive/research thesis examiner for Institute of Christian Studies (Toronto School of Theology); Trinity Western University.

Book/Journal/Conference Paper Reviewing

Referee for manuscripts on Bradley for History of European Ideas, October 2017.

Referee for manuscripts (5 papers; 1 Workshop) on “Intercultural Philosophy” for XIV World Congress of Philosophy, 2017-18

Referee for 7 manuscripts on Malbranche for Science et esprit, September 2017. Referee for manuscript on Bradley for Laval theologique et philosophique, July 2017. Referee for manuscript on Eriugena for Toronto Journal of Theology, July 2017.

Referee for manuscript on Pascal for Science et esprit, March 2017.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Toronto Journal of Theology [anti-theism], March 2017.

Referee for manuscript in religion and culture for Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [Social Religiosity], March 2017.

Referee for manuscript in history of philosophy for British Journal for the History of Philosophy

[Bradley/grand desires], 2016.

Referee for 4 manuscripts in phenomenology of religion for Science et Esprit, August 2016.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Toronto Journal of Theology [Darwinism], August 2016. Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion [Emergence] for Dialogue, July 2016.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion [Ignatian] for Sophia, May 2016. Referee for manuscript on religious education for Fidelitas, May 2016.

Referee for book manuscript on Charles Taylor for Springer, March 2016.

Referee for book manuscript on Collingwood and Bradley for McGill-Queen’s University Press, January 2016.

Referee for book manuscript on ethics for Broadview Press, 2015.

Referee for manuscript in religion and culture for Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses [theology in the university], 2015.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Toronto Journal of Theology [Hell and evil], 2015. Referee for 2 manuscripts in phenomenology of religion for Science et Esprit, 2015.

Referee for manuscript in philosophy of history for Journal of the Philosophy of History [Maritain], 2015. Referee for manuscript in modern philosophy for Political Studies [Bosanquet], 2015.

Reviewed proposal for SSHRC Insight Grants competition, 2015 Reviewed paper for CPA Annual Congress, 2015

Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion [Zuidervaart] for McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.

Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion [Brown] for Catholic University of America Press

[Brown], 2014.

Referee for manuscript on religion and science, Laval théologique et philosophique, 2014.

Referee for book manuscript on science and religion [Sweetman], Bloomsbury Publishers, 2014. Referee for manuscript in history of religions for Journal of Religious History, 2013.

Referee for manuscript in political philosophy for Synthesis philosophica / Filozofska Istrazivanja, 2013. Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Sophia, 2013.

Referee for 2 manuscripts in contemporary philosophy for ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ, 2013. Referee for manuscript in idealist political thought for Political Studies, 2012.

Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion for Oxford University Press, 2012. Referee for book manuscript on Jacques Maritain for University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Referee for 3 manuscripts on philosophy of religion for Sophia, 2011.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Toronto Journal of Theology, 2011. Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Sophia, 2010.

Referee for manuscript on idealist philosophy for Science et esprit, 2010.

Referee for manuscript on idealist philosophy for European Journal of Philosophy, 2010.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2010. Referee for manuscript on ethics for Symposium, 2010.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Toronto Journal of Theology, 2010. Chair, Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize Committee, 2008-09

Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion for Oxford University Press, 2007. Referee for manuscript on Value Theory for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2006. Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion for Oxford University Press, 2005. Referee for manuscript on introductory logic for Thomson Nelson Publishers (Canada), 2005. Referee for manuscript on idealism for Bradley Studies, 2004.

Referee for manuscript on philosophical theology for Laval theologique et philosophique, 2004. Referee for manuscript on introductory logic for Thomson Nelson Publishers (Canada), 2004. Referee for manuscript on introductory logic for Fernwood Books (Canada), 2004.

Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion for Oxford University Press, 2003.

Referee for book manuscript on Catholic social teaching for McGill Queen's University Press, 2003.

External Assessor for book manuscript in religious studies [on Locke's theological politics], Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme / Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Humanities Federation of Canada, 2002.

Referee for book manuscript in philosophy of religion for Oxford University Press, 2002.

Referee for manuscript on mediaeval philosophical theology for Laval theologique et philosophique, 2002.

Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Laval theologique et philosophique, 2001. External Assessor for book manuscripts in religious studies, Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme,

Humanities Federation of Canada, 2000-01.

Referee for manuscript in ethics for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2002

Referee for manuscript on the Philosophy of History for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2001.

Referee for manuscript on Bosanquet's political thought for Animus, 2001. Referee for book manuscript on critical thinking for Broadview Press, 2000. Referee for manuscript on philosophy of religion for Sophia, 2000.

Referee for manuscript on Hegel's idealism for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2000. Referee for manuscript on western / Asian cross-cultural philosophy for De philosophia, 2000. Referee for book manuscript on British Idealism for Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Referee for manuscript on British Idealism for Laval theologique et philosophique, 1999. Referee for 2 manuscripts on philosophy of religion for Eidos, 1999.

Referee for manuscript on political philosophy for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 1998. Referee for manuscript on F.H. Bradley's idealism for Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 1998. Referee for manuscript on T.H. Green's idealism for The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly,

1998.

External Assessor for book manuscripts in political science, Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, Social Science Federation of Canada, 1993.

Referee for manuscripts in philosophy for presentation at the Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, 1995; 1998, 2004, 2005.

Revisions to philosophy manuscript by Manoel de Carvahlo for Routledge Publishers, England.

Referee for 3 manuscripts in social and political philosophy for the Social Philosophy Today book series (Edwin Mellen Press), 1993-94.

Referee for manuscript in philosophy of religion for the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1993. Referee for 2 manuscripts for the Journal of Dharma, 1993.

Referee for three manuscripts in political philosophy for the Social Philosophy Today book series (Edwin Mellen Press), 1992-93.

Referee for manuscript in political philosophy for the Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1992. Referee for 2 manuscripts in political philosophy for the Social Philosophy Today book series (Edwin

Mellen Press), 1991-92.

Offices in Learned Societies / Professional Associations

President, World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies, 2008-present. Vice President/President-elect, Canadian Theological Society, 2018-present. Treasurer, Canadian Theological Society, 2014-2018.

Member and Chair, Jay Newman Memorial Lecture Committee, Canadian Theological Society, 2013- present.

President, Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain (Rome), 2010-2014. President, Canadian Philosophical Association, 2007-08.

President, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, 1999-2006. President, Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, 2002-03.

Past-President (2008-09) and Vice-President (2006-07), Canadian Philosophical Association. Secretary-General, World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies, 1998-2008.

Member of the Steering Committee, Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (International Federation of Philosophical Societies), 2003-08; 2008-13 2013-present

Chair, Nominating Committee, Canadian Philosophical Association, 2008-09. Member, Programme Committee, XXII World Congress of Philosophy, 2004-08.

Past-President (2006-09) and Vice-President (1996-99; 2011-12), and Member of the Board of Directors (1995-present), the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association.

Member of the Board of Directors, Asian Association of Christian Philosophers, 2008-12.

Past-President (2003-05) and Vice-President (1997-2001), Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, 1997-2005.

Vice-President, Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain (Rome), 2001-06; 2006-10.

Member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President (2001-12), International Congress for Social Philosophy (India), 2000-12.

Member, General Assembly, Canadian Federation for the Humanities, 2008-09.

Chair, Committee on Outreach to Christian Philosophers, American Society of Christian Philosophers, 1996-2000.

Member of Executive and Membership Secretary, Canadian Society for Studies in Religion (CSSR), 1999-2001.

Representative of the CSSR to the International Association for the History of Religions, 2000-1 Member of Board of Directors, Canadian Philosophical Association, 1997-99.

Secretary, Society of Christian Philosophers (Canadian section), 1992-97.

Conference Co-coordinator and Member of the Programme Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers (Canadian section), 1991-92; 1993-94.

Executive member, Société de philosophie de l'Outaouais, 1985-86.

Appendix I - Administrative Experience

St Thomas University

Vice President (Academic)

Interim Academic Dean of Faculty

Acting Assistant Vice-President (Research) Chair of Committee of Department Chairs

Chair of UCEP [University College Entrance Programme / Native Studies] Committee

Member of Board of Governors (and its Executive Committee and Human Resources Committee) Member of President’s Management Advisory Committee

Member of Board of Trustees of Chairs of Studies in: Native Studies, Canadian Citizenship and Human Rights, Irving Chair of Journalism, Gerontology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, John XXIII Chair in Catholic Theology, Aquinas Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies

Member of Executive Board, Atlantic Human Rights Centre

Member of Advisory Committees (BSW Advisory Committee; Humanities Advisory Committee; Journalism Advisory Committee; Miramichi Programme; President’s Advisory Committee on the Budget)

Academic Liaison Officer with Vice President (Academic), University of New Brunswick Vice-Chair of University Senate

Acting Chair, Department of Religious Studies Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy

Coordinator, Catholic Studies (July-Dec 2007; July 2008-June 2009)

Member of Senate Committees (Academic Planning; Admissions and Academic Standing; Campus Planning; Curriculum; Joint Board-Senate; Nominating [Chair]; President’s Advisory Committee on Information Technology; Research; Student Academic Grievance; Teaching and Learning Development)

Chair, Selection Committee for Dean of Faculty

National level

Chair (2008) and Committee member (2005; 2006-7; 2008), Adjudication Committee, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Chair (2002-03) and Committee member (2001-03), Adjudication Committee 1, National Research and Dissemination Grants Programs, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Member (2011-12), Adjudication Committee, Public Outreach Dissemination Grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada   http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding- financement/programs-programmes/public_outreach-sensibilisation_public-eng.aspx 2011-12.

Member (2014-15), Adjudication Committee, Partnership Grants Program (LOI and Formal Application), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Co-Chair, 2011 [Canadian National] Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007-08. Committee member, National Advisory Board, Regional Partnerships Program – Canadian Institutes of

Health Research (RPP-CIHR), 2007-09.

Regional Level – Atlantic Canada

Member, AAU Research Development Advisory Committee, 2007-08.

Provincial level – New Brunswick

Chair, New Brunswick Provincial Advisory Board, Regional Partnerships Program – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (RPP-CIHR), 2007-09.

Member, Steering Committee on Post-Secondary Research in New Brunswick (SCPSE), 2007-08.

St Francis Xavier University

Member, Board of Governors Committee for the Appointment of the President and Vice-Chancellor, 2013-14.

Chair of University Graduate Studies, 2005-07.

Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2003-2006; 2006-07

Chair of the University Senate and of the Senate Steering Committee, 1994-95; 2011-12. Chair, University Faculty, 2001-02.

Chair, Faculty of Arts, 1998-99; 1999-2000.

President, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 2002-04.

Member, University Academic Priorities and Planning Committee, 2003-06; 2012-15. Member, University Strategic Plan Working Committee, St Francis Xavier University, 2015-16. Member, Committee to Review University By Laws, St Francis Xavier University, 2015-16.

Chair, St. Francis Xavier University Advisory Committee on the SSHRC Transformation Process, 2004 Chair, Advisory Committee to the Vice-President on Research, 2006-07.

Member, Presidential Committee for the Appointment of the Academic Vice President and Provost, 2004-05.

Chair, Advisory Committee on the SSHRC Transformation Process, 2004.

Chair of the Presidential Committee for the Christian Culture Lecture Series, 1998-2000; 2003-06; 2010- present.

Past-President, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 2004-06. Vice-President, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 2001-02.

Executive Member-at-Large, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 2011-13

Vice-Chair of the University Senate and member of the Steering Committee, 1993-94; 2010-11, 2018-19. Secretary, Faculty of Arts, 1994-95.

Member of the University Senate, 1992-95; 2001-04; 2006-07; 2010-2013; 2014-2016. 2017-present Member, University ‘Tiger team’ on Internationalization, St Francis Xavier University, 2014-15.

Member, Senate Appeals Committee, St Francis Xavier University, 2016. Member, Committee on Graduate Studies, 2005-07; 2010-13.

Member, University Budget Committee, 2006-07.

Member (and Chair/Chief Negotiator, 2001-05) of the Negotiating Committee, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 1994-95; 2001-05.

Member (and Chair, 2001-06) of Salary and Benefits Committee, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 1991-92; 1998-2000; 2001-06.

Member of the Faculty Handbook Committee, St Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers, 1993-95; 2001-05; 2011-13.

Member (and Chair, 2012-present) of the Honorary Degree Committee, 2002-05; 2012-present. Member of the University Council for Research, 1995-96; 2005-07.

Co-ordinator (2006-07; 2010-present) and Adjunct faculty member, Program in Catholic Studies, 1998-2000; 2001-07; 2010-present.

Member of the Selection Committee for the Father Edo Gatto Chair of Christian Studies, 1997 2000; 2013-2014.

Member (and Chair, 2011-present) of the Presidential Committee for the Christian Culture Lecture Series, 1992-96; 1998-2000; 2002-05; 2011-present.

Member (and Chair, 1995-96; 1998-99) of the Presidential Committee for the Dr Moses M. Coady Debating Competition, 1993-96; 1997-99.

Member, Department of Philosophy Evaluation Committee, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-

15, 2015-16, 2016-17

Member of StFXAUT Status of Women Committee, 2002-03. Member of StFXAUT Student Bursary Committee, 2005.

Member of the Chaplaincy Advisory Committee, 1993-96; 2014-17.