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Education

• B.A., Waterloo 
• M.A., Waterloo
• Ph.D., Dalhousie

Specializations

Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics 

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My work over the past ten years has been informed by key insights in the embodied cognitive science tradition. These ideas are currently finding expression in a book, A Pragmatic Account of Cognition: Rethinking Externalism and Intentionality, due for completion in 2023. In it I advance a theory of cognition that challenges the view that human cognition is grounded in a biologically fundamental capacity for representation. I argue that this reductive internalist picture is mistaken, misguided, and ultimately misguiding and in its stead, I advocate for a version of externalism on which representation use is a learned skill.

In my other professional role, I am Anglophone Editor of , an established, generalist journal of philosophy. Recently, my colleagues and I have launched a new series, Project Babel Fish, in which we print a paper in English alongside a version in the author’s native language. We intend to continue this each year, offering selected authors the opportunity to have their work translated by our team to the extent of our ability. We hope that this initiative will foster dialogue between diverse philosophical communities.

A few years back I founded , an inter-disciplinary research institute of embodied cognition, with the hope that it would become an inter-discplinary hub and resource for current papers in the field. Unfortunately work on it generally falls to the very bottom of my to-do list and so it hasn't changed much since then, but one day .... In the meantime, I encourage people who are interested in embodied, enactive ideas to subscribe, add a post, or let us know about interesting events or papers.

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• PhD, Cornell University

Specializations 

Science and Technology Studies

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Sergio Sismondo does research in Science and Technology Studies at intersections of philosophy and sociology of science. Recently, he has been studying the nature and distribution of pharmaceutical research, seeing this as a project in the political economy of knowledge. He is at the beginning of a project on “epistemic corruption,” exploring contestation around knowledge practices. Earlier and continuing work has been connected to questions about realism, constructivism, and deflationism. Sismondo is currently editor of the journal Social Studies of Science, one of the flagship journals in Science and Technology Studies.

Selected Monographs

• Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands (Mattering, 2018, translated into Chinese, 2019)
• An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2nd ed (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 1st ed Blackwell 2004, multiply translated)

Edited Books / Collections

• The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader (with Jeremy Greene) (Wiley, 2015)

Selected Edited Journal Issues

• Special issue on Pharmaceutical Research and Marketing, Social Studies of Science 34 no. 2, 2004.
• Special issue on Modeling and Simulation, Science in Context 12, no.2, 1999.

Plus more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.

Work in Progress

'Epistemic Corruption'

Media

Various interviews for radio, print news, and podcasts.

Education

• BSc, University of Toronto
• MSc, University of Toronto
• PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Specializations / Research Interests 

Philosophy of Science, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Email

c dot stinson at queensu.ca

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I received my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in History & Philosophy of Science, and a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. I have published in philosophy of neuroscience (attention, mechanistic explanation), philosophy of psychiatry (anorexia, classification of disorders), philosophy of artificial intelligence (explanation in artificial neural networks, neo-phrenology), and tech policy (data governance, terms of service agreements, AI ethics education). My current research interests include algorithmic bias in recommendation and search, regulation of social media platforms, how diversity affects research, the metaphysics of scientific models, the medicalization of gender, and data science for anti-racist advocacy.

Recent Journal Articles

• Stinson, C. (2020) . Philosophy of Science. 87(4), 590–611.
• Stinson, C. (2019) . Synthese. 196(6), 2153-2176.
• Stinson, C. (2016) . Synthese. 193(5), 1585- 1614. 
• Piryankova, I.V., Wong, H.Y., Linkenauger, S., Stinson, C., Longo, M., Bülthoff, H.H., Mohler, B.J. (2014) . PLOS One 9(8): e103428.
• Stinson, C. (2009) . PSYCHE 15(1): 137-154.

Policy Papers

• . Future EDge, Issue 2. New South Wales Department of Education (September 2020)
• . The Mowat Centre. (December 2018)

Chapters in Books

• Stinson, C. (2018). Explanation and Connectionist Models. In The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind, Eds. M. Colombo and M. Sprevak. 120–133.
• Stinson, C. and Sullivan, J. (2017). Mechanistic Explanation in Neuroscience. In The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy, Eds. S. Glennan and P. Illari. 375–388.
• Stinson, C. (2017). Back to the Cradle: Mechanism Schemata from Piaget to DNA. In Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer, Eds. M. Abrams, Z. Biener, U. Feest, J. Sullivan. Springer. 183–194.

Selected Public Philosophy and Op-Eds

• . Aeon (May 2020).
• . The Globe and Mail (July 6, 2018).
• . The Globe and Mail (March 25, 2018).

Recent Interviews

• Sept 2020 interview on CBC Radio, .
• June 2020 interview on ABC Radio, .
• June 2020 interview in El Pais, .
• June 2019 interview on CBC Radio, .

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• DPhil, Oxford University

Specializations / Research Interests

Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy

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Christine Sypnowich found her path to political philosophy when she encountered the work of C.B. Macpherson at the University of Toronto, where she completed her first two degrees before taking up a Commonwealth Scholarship to do a doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford. Sypnowich has held teaching appointments at Oxford University, Leeds University, Leiden University, University of California (San Diego), and York University, before coming to 91TV’s. She has been awarded visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and All Souls College, Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 

Christine Sypnowich’s early work was in the philosophy of law, particularly the possibility of socialist legality given the Marxist antipathy to law. This was the subject of her first monograph published with OUP, a revised version of her Oxford dissertation. More recently her research has centred on egalitarianism, making the case for a human flourishing approach to equality in Equality Renewed: Justice, Human Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Routledge 2018). She has published over 60 essays as journal articles or book chapters. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Russian and Spanish and abridged versions published in accessible formats such as textbooks and popular philosophy. She is currently completing a book on the philosophy of G.A. Cohen for Polity Press. Active in the city of Kingston as an advocate for transparency at City Hall as well as heritage conservation, Sypnowich is also working on a monograph on the political philosophy of cultural heritage.

Monographs

• G.A. Cohen: Liberty, Equality and Justice (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2024)
• Equality Renewed: Justice, Human Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Routledge, 2017; in paperback 2018)
• The Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford University Press, 1990; translated into Chinese, 2017)

Monographs under contract

• ‘Why It’s OK to be a Socialist’, book project commissioned in 2020 by Routledge.

Edited Books / Collections

• (ed. with Andrée-Anne Cormier) Family Values and Social Justice, Routledge, London, 2018.
• (ed. with Robert Cardwell and Barb Carr) Barriefield: Two Centuries of Village Life, Quarry Press, Kingston, 2015.
• The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.
• (ed. with David Bakhurst) The Social Self, Sage Publications, London, 1995.

Edited Journal Issues

• (with Andrée-Anne Cormier) Critical Review of International Studies in Social and Political Philosophy special issue on Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift, Family Values (Princeton University Press, 2015), 2017. DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2017.1398447

Selected Journal Articles

• 'The Demands of Equality’, Social Philosophy & Policy, 39, 2, Winter 2022 (forthcoming).
• ‘What’s Wrong with Equality of Opportunity’, Philosophical Topics, Fall 2021 (forthcoming). 
• ‘Monuments and Monsters: Education, cultural heritage and sites of conscience’, Journal of the Philosophy of Education, June 2021.
• ‘Lessons from Dystopia: Critique, Hope and Political Education,’ paper commissioned for a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Education, 52, 4, March 2019, pp. 660-676.
• ‘Flourishing Children, Flourishing Adults: Families, Equality and the Neutralism-Perfectionism Debate,’ Critical Review of International Studies in Social and Political Philosophy 21, 3, November 2017, pp. 314-332.
• ‘What’s Left in Egalitarianism? Marxism and the Limitations of Liberal Theories of Equality,’ Philosophy Compass, August 2017; DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12428, pp. 1-10.
• ‘G.A. Cohen’s Socialism: Scientific but also Utopian,’ Socialist Studies, 8, 12, 2012, pp. 20-34.
• ‘The Culture of Citizenship,’ Politics and Society, 28, 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 531-555.
• ‘How to Live the Good Life: William Morris’s Aesthetic Conception of Equality,’ 91TV’s Quarterly, 107, 3, 2000, pp. 391-411.
• ‘Some Disquiet 91TV Difference,’ Praxis International, 13, 2, August 1993, pp. 99-112.
• ‘Justice, Community and the Antinomies of Feminist Theory,’ Political Theory 21, 3, August 1993, pp. 484-506.
• ‘The Future of Socialist Legality: A Reply to Hunt,’ New Left Review, 193, May/June 1992, pp. 16-24.
• ‘Fear of Death: Mortality and Modernity in Political Philosophy,’ 91TV's Quarterly, 98, 3, 1991, pp. 618-36.
• ‘The “Withering Away” of Law,’ Studies in Soviet Thought, 33, 4, May 1987, pp. 305-332.
• ‘Consent, Self-Government and Obligation,’ Praxis International, 6, 3, October 1986, pp. 256-76.

Selected Chapters in Books

• 'The Rule of Law and the Social Ethos’ for Michael Sevel, ed., Routledge Handbook of the Rule of Law, Routledge (forthcoming)
• ‘Law and the Socialist Ideal’, in ed. P. O’Connell and Umut Ozsu, Elgar Handbook on Law and Marxism, Elgar Publishing (forthcoming).
• ‘Liberalism, Marxism, Equality and Living Well,’ in Jan Kandiyali (ed.) Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing, Routledge 2018, pp. 187-208.
• ‘Conservatism, Perfectionism and Equality,’ in D. Bakhurst and P. Fairfield (eds), Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy, Bloomsbury, London, 2016, pp. 77-94.
• ‘Barriefield: A Living History,’ Barriefield: Two Centuries of Village Life (ed. with Robert Cardwell and Barb Carr), Quarry Press, Kingston, 2015, pp. 194-219.
• ‘A New Approach to Equality,’ in Roberto Merrill and Daniel Weinstock (ed.) Political Neutrality: A Re-evaluation, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2014, pp. 178-209.
• ‘The Left and Wrongs: Marxism, Law and Torts,’ in The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development, Vol. 7, Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law on Torts in Europe, edited by Michael Lobban and Julia Moses, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, pp. 150-166.
• ‘Begging,’ in The Egalitarian Conscience, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. 177-194.
• ‘Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitanism and Human Flourishing,’ in G. Brock and H. Brighouse (eds.) The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 55-74.
• ‘Egalitarianism Renewed,’ in R. Beiner and W. Norman (eds.), Canadian Political Philosophy at the Turn of the Century: Exemplary Essays, Oxford University Press 2000, pp. 118-30.
• ‘Utopia and the Rule of Law,’ in D. Dyzenhaus (ed.), Re-crafting the Rule of Law: the Limits of Legal Order, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1999, pp. 178-95.

Selected Reviews & Review Essays

• Review of Matthew Kramer, Liberalism with Excellence, in Ethics, April 2019
• 'Citizens of the World' (review essay of Brooke A. Ackerly, Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference, Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonweath of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracies, David A. Crocker, Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability and Deliberative Democracy, and Dora Kostakopoulou, The Future Governance of Citizenship), in Political Theory, 2010.
• 'Taking Britain’s Human Rights Act Seriously' (review essay of Conor Gearty, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication), in University of Toronto Law Journal, 2008.
• 'Ruling or Overruled? The People, Rights and Democracy' (review essay of Will Waluchow, A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree), in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2007.
• 'Equality: From Marxism to Liberalism (and Back Again)' (review essay of G.A. Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?), in Political Studies Review, 2003.
• 'Race, Culture and the Egalitarian Conscience', (review essay of K.A. Appiah and A. Gutmann, Color Conscious), in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1999.
• 'Social Justice and Legal Form' (review essay of D. Dyzenhaus, Hard Cases and Wicked Legal Systems), in Ratio Juris 1994.
• 'Law as a Vehicle of Altruism' (review essay of Tom Campbell, The Left and Rights), in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1985.

Encyclopedia Entries

• ‘Steven Lukes’, Encyclopaedia of Political Thought, Wiley 2014.
• ‘Socialist Law’, The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopaedia, Garland, New York, 1999.
• ‘Law and Ideology’, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2005; revised 2010; 2014; 2019.

Work in Progress

• ‘A Political Philosophy of Cultural Heritage’ (monograph)

Media

• ‘’, The Philosopher’s Zone, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programme, 1 July 2018; repeated 13 January 2019: broadcast on CBC Radio on 13 January 2019.
• ‘’, Into the Coast internet interviews of philosophers, 2019
• ‘Christine Sypnowich,’ interview with Christina Decarie, Profile Kingston, 2017.
• ‘The Concept of Socialist Law – internet Interview with Christine Sypnowich by Jack Marsh,’ Rebel News, 2015
• ‘Unreliable Friends’ letter in London Review of Books 16 March 2000.
• Member of a 3-philosopher panel (with Will Kymlicka and Arthur Ripstein) on a 1-hour programme discussing ‘The Public Good’ with Lister Sinclair, Ideas, CBC Radio, 1996.

Also a number of interviews about my advocacy work in the city of Kingston on issues such as heritage conservation, school closures, democracy and transparency at City Hall, in the local press such as the Kingston Whig Standard, as well as Global TV News, CBC Radio (Ontario Morning, All in a Day).

Teaching

• Phil 153 The State and the Citizen
• Phil 257 Ethics
• Phil 271 Philosophy and Literature
• Phil 318 Philosophy of Law

Also senior undergraduate and graduate seminars in Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, on such subjects as equality, human flourishing, socialism, G.A. Cohen’s philosophy, the rule of law. 

I am currently supervising 2 PhD students, 3 MA students.

Education

• B.A., 91TV's University
• B.Phil, University of Oxford
• D.Phil, University of Oxford

Specialization

Political Philosophy

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Will’s research interests focus on issues of democracy and diversity, and in particular on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies. He has published nine books and over 200 articles, which have been translated into 32 languages, and has received several awards, most recently: Honorary Doctorates from the University of Copenhagen in 2013 and KU Leuven in 2014; the 2019 Gold Medal from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council; and the Royal Society of Canada’s Pierre Chauveau Medal in 2021. In 2023 Will was appointed to the Order of Canada. His books include:  (OUP 1990; second edition 2002);  (OUP 1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association;  (OUP 2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award; and two books co-authored with Sue Donaldson:  (OUP 2011), which was awarded the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Best Book Prize in 2013, and  (OUP, 2025). Will and Sue are co-convenors of the  research group at 91TV’s. 

Will is also the co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's program on .

A full list of Will’s publications is available on . Several of his recent and forthcoming papers are available on his .

Education

• BA, Bishop’s
• PhD, University of Toronto

Specializations / Research Interests

Critical Prison Studies, Phenomenology, Feminism, Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Race Theory

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Lisa Guenther is 91TV’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies.  She is the author of (2013) and (2007), and co-editor of (2015). She has published articles and book chapters in phenomenology, feminism, prison studies, and critical race studies, including recent work on police violence, prisoner resistance, and carceral space. As a public philosopher, Guenther’s work has appeared in , , , and . From 2012-17, she facilitated a discussion group with men on death row in Tennessee called , and she is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the . Guenther teaches philosophy classes at Collins Bay Institution through the Walls to Bridges Program. She is working on a critical phenomenology of prison abolition and decolonization on Turtle Island. 

Monographs

• Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
• The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006.

Edited Books / Collections

• Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration. Co-edited with Geoff Adelsberg and Scott Zeman.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.

Edited Journal Issues

• Co-editor with Chloë Taylor, Special Issue: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6.1, Winter 2016.
• Co-editor with Ami Harbin, Special Issue: Phenomenology, Affect, and Emotion, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 7.2, Fall 2012.
• Co-editor with Chloë Taylor, Special Issue: Continental Perspectives on Animals, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 2:2, Fall 2007.

Journal Articles

• 'Collective Memory at Canada's Prison for Women,' Critical Times 7:2, August 2024, 260-79.
• 'Property, Dispossession, and State Violence: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance in Canada,' Philosophy Today 67:1 (Special Issue on Violent Democracies), Winter 2023, 81-98.
• ‘Stiftung dekolonisiert: Eine Lektüre von Merleau-Pontys Vorlesungen über Institution’ (German translation of ‘Asking Different Questions: A Decolonial Reading of Merleau-Ponty’s Institution Course Notes’), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71:6 (2023), 921–932. 
• ‘#AbolishCanada: Breaking Down the 2022 Freedom Convoy,’ Special Section, Against the Day: Abolition Politics, South Atlantic Quarterly 122:3 (July 2023), 651-9.
• ‘Asking Different Questions: A Decolonial Reading of Merleau-Ponty’s Institution Course Notes,’ Chiasmi International (Special Issue on ‘Critical Phenomenology After Merleau-Ponty, Part II’) 24, 2022.
• ‘Abolish the World As We Know It: Notes for a Praxis of Phenomenology Beyond Critique,’ Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology (Special Issue on Dwelling in the Contemporary Condition) 5:2, 2022. https://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/pjcp/article/view/4922 
• Linda Mussell, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby, and Lisa Guenther, ‘‘A prison is no place for a party’: Neoliberalism, charitable fundraising, carceral enjoyments and abolitionist killjoys,’ Contemporary Justice Review, 30 Jan 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10282580.2021.2018655
• 'Six Senses of Critique for Critical Phenomenology,' Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 4:2 (Special Issue on the Collegium Phaenomenologicum), 2021.
• 'Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada's Prison for Women,' Space and Culture (Special Issue on Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience), December 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/12063312211066549 
• 'Dwelling in Carceral Space,’ Levinas Studies 12, 2018.
• ‘The Unmaking and Remaking of the World in Long-Term Solitary Confinement,’ Social Philosophy Today 34, 2018.
• ‘The Unmaking and Remaking of the World in Long-Term Solitary Confinement,’ Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 1:1, 2018.
• ‘Prison Beds and Compensated Man-Days: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Carceral Neoliberalism,’ Special Issue on Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State, Social Justice 44:2/3, 2018.
• ‘A Critical Phenomenology of Dwelling in Carceral Space,’ Special issue on Phenomenology against Architectural Phenomenology, Log 42, Winter 2018.
• ‘The Creaturely Politics of Prison Resistance Movements,’ Carceral Notebooks, “Challenging the Punitive Society,” ed. Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts, 12, 2016. 
• (with Chloë Taylor) ‘Introduction: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation’, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6.1, 1-8, Winter 2016.
• ‘Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes,’ The Canadian Journal for Human Rights 4:1, 2015.
• ‘.’ Postmodern Culture 22:2 (January), 2013.
• ‘Fecundity and Natal Alienation: Rethinking Kinship with Emmanuel Levinas and Orlando Patterson.’ Levinas Studies 7. Special Issue on Levinas and Race, Ed. John Drabinski, 2012.
• ‘Beyond Dehumanization: A Post-Humanist Critique of Intensive Confinement.’ Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10:2, Special Issue on Animals and Prisons, 2012.
• ‘Resisting Agamben: The Biopolitics of Shame and Humiliation.’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 38:1, 2012, pp. 59-79.
• ‘The Ethics and Politics of Otherness: Negotiating Alterity and Racial Difference.’ philoSOPHIA 1.2, 2011, pp 195-214.
• ‘Subjects without a World? An Husserlian Analysis of Solitary Confinement.’ Human Studies 34, 2011, pp 257–276.
• ‘Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Sexual Difference.’ Angelaki 16:2, 2011, pp 19-33.
• ‘Shame and the Temporality of Social Life.’ Continental Philosophy Review 44:1, March 2011.
• ‘Other Fecundities: Proust and Irigaray on Sexual Difference.’ differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 21:2, 2010, pp 24-45.
• ‘‘Nameless Singularity’: Levinas on Individuation and Ethical Singularity.’ ����dz���é 14:1, Fall 2009, pp 167–187.
• ‘Who follows whom?  Derrida, Animals and Women.’  Derrida Today 2:2, 151-65, 2009.
• ‘Being-from-Others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero.’ Hypatia 23:4, Fall 2008.
• ‘Le flair animal: Levinas and the possibility of friendship.’ PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 2:2, Fall 2007.
• ‘‘Like a Maternal Body’: Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses,’ Hyaptia 21:1, Special Issue on Maternal Bodies, 119-136, Winter 2006.
• ‘Lucky Burden: Beauvoir and the Ethical Temporality of Birth’, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 9:2, 177-194, 2005. 
• ‘Unborn Mothers: The old rhetoric of New Reproductive Technologies’, Radical Philosophy, 130, 2-6, March/April 2005.
• ‘Towards a Phenomenology of Dwelling,’ Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 7(2), 38-46, 2002. 

Chapters in Books

• 'Unsettling Perception: A Critical Phenomenology of Settler Colonial Body Schemas,' Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life: Social Critique, Sense-Institution, and Political Emancipations, eds. Andreea Smaranda Aldea and Delia Popa. Forthcoming from Springer.
• 'Phenomenology, Abolition, and the Lived Experience of Incarceration,' Abolitionist Voices, ed. David Gordon Scott. Bristol University Press, 2025. 
• 'A Phenomenological Critique of White Ignorance,' The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology, ed. Steffen Hermann, Gerhard Thonhauser, Sophie Loidolt, Tobias Matzner, and Nils Baratella. Routledge, 2024.  
• ‘Intergenerational Responsibility for Settler Colonial Violence,’ Rethinking Responsibility, ed. Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt, Ferdinando G. Menga, and Christian Schlenker. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, pp. 153-77. 
• ‘Six Senses of Critique for Critical Phenomenology’ (translated into German), Phänomenologie und Kritische Theorie, ed. Jochen Dreher, Alexis Gros, and Hartmut Rosa. Suhrkamp, 2022. 
• ‘Police, Drones, and the Politics of Perception,’ The Ethics of Policing, ed. Eduardo Mendieta and Ben Jones. New York: New York University Press, 2021.
• ‘Settler Colonialism, Incarceration, and the Abolitionist Imperative: Lessons from an Australian Youth Detention Centre,’ Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice, ed. Chloë Taylor and Kelly Struthers Montford. New York: Routledge, 2021.
• ‘CCA/Core Civic,’ I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites, ed. Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams Jr. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021.
• ‘‘We Charge Genocide’: Anti-Black Racism in the United States as Genocidal Structural Violence,’ Logics of Genocide, ed. Ann O’Byrne and Martin Shuster. New York: Routledge, 2020.
• ‘Critical Phenomenology,’ 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Ann Murphy, Gayle Salamon, and Gail Weiss. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
• ‘Seeing Like a Cop: A Critical Phenomenology of Whiteness as Property,’ Race and Phenomenology, ed. Emily Lee. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
• ‘‘An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex,’ Deconstructing the Death Penalty Towards a New Abolitionism: Essays on Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars, ed. Kelly Oliver, with Stephanie Straub.  Fordham University Press, 2018, pp. 239-258.
• ‘Epistemic Injustice and Phenomenology,’ The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, ed. Ian Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus. New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 195-204.
• ‘A Critical Phenomenology of Solidarity and Resistance in the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes,’ Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters, ed. Luna Dolezal and Danielle Petherbridge. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017, pp. 42-74.
• ‘Angela Davis,’ Fifty Key Feminist Philosophers, ed. Lori Marso. New York: Routledge, 2016.
• ‘Life Behind Bars: The Eugenic Structure of Mass Incarceration,’ Feminist Philosophies of Life, ed. Hasana Sharp and Chloe Taylor. Kingston, ON: McGill-91TV Press, 2016.
• ‘On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty,’ The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. Ed. Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• ‘The Living Death of Solitary Confinement’ in The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments. Ed. Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2015.
• ‘Social Death and the Power of Creative Resistance,’ The House That Herman Built, ed. Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace. Stuttgart, Germany: Reihe Projectiv, 2015.
• ‘Beyond Guilt and Innocence: The Creaturely Life of Prisoner Resistance,’ Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition, ed. Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn. Palgrave 2015.
• ‘The Psychopathology of Space: A Phenomenological Critique of Solitary Confinement,’ Medicine and Society in Continental Perspective, ed. Darian Meacham. Dortrecht: Springer, 2015.
• ‘Inhabiting the House that Herman Built: Merleau-Ponty and the Pathological Space of Solitary Confinement.’ Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, ed. Patricia Locke and Rachel McCann.  Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015.
• ‘Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell “Maroon” Shoatz,’ Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and the Death Penalty. Co-edited by Geoffrey Adelsberg and Scott Zeman. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
• ‘The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau-Ponty.’ In Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering.  Ed. Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist. Fordham University Press, 2012.

Encyclopedia Entries

• ‘Prison Studies,’ Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Nicolas de Warren and Ted Toadvine. Springer, 2024. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-47253-5_348-1

Work in Progress

• No Prisons on Stolen Land: A Critical Phenomenology of Carceral Colonial Power (book)

Media

• ‘Education Behind Bars: Transformative Pedagogy in Prisons,’ Re-Educated Podcast, 1 May 2024. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84MzRiMDI1Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/MmVhMjhlM2QtNWRjYS00OTM5LTk5MGEtMmU1NGU2Y2I5Mjk4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiYmJTYhe2FAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ 
• Talkback session for ‘The Flood,’ Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 25 Feb 2024.
• ‘An Interview with Lisa Guenther (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series),’ Constanza Porro, 15 Jan 2024. https://justice-everywhere.org/beyond-the-ivory-tower/an-interview-with-lisa-guenther-beyond-the-ivory-tower-series/ 
• Podcast Interview with Rebel Justice, ‘Abolitionists Rising: Reimagining Justice Beyond Prisons with Lisa Guenther,’ 16 December 2023 https://player.fm/series/rebel-justice-changing-the-way-you-see-justice/abolitionists-rising-reimagining-justice-beyond-prisons-with-lisa-guenther  
• ‘Memory and Forgetting at Canada’s Prison for Women,’ Mountjoy Prison and The Dochas Centre (women’s prison), Dublin, 15 Nov. 2023.
• ‘Collective Memory at Canada’s Prison for Women,’ APA Blog on Public Philosophy, 9 Nov. 2023. https://blog.apaonline.org/2023/11/09/collective-memory-at-canadas-prison-for-women/
• ‘Solitary Confinement and the Meaning of Existence,’ Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, UK, 23 March, 2022. Online presentation and discussion. https://glosphilsoc.net/ 
• ‘Prison redevelopment on three continents: Lessons from community-led struggles’ (with Linda Mussell). Spring: A Magazine of Socialist Ideas in Action (31 March, 2021). https://springmag.ca/prison-redevelopment-on-three-continents-lessons-from-community-led-struggles 
• Podcast on solitary confinement with Shokoufeh Sakhi for Solitudes Past and Present. Forthcoming on https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/.
• ‘’ (interview with Thomas Dixon for podcast on solitary confinement). Sept. 2020. BBC Sounds.
• ‘’ (interview on solitary confinement for podcast) Hi-Phi Nation. 30 May, 2020. Podcast launched with one-hour webinar for subscribers on 4 June.
• ‘Teachin’ Against the Big House: A Teach-in on Prison Entertainment and Redevelopment,’ John Deutsch University Centre, 91TV, 12 Sept., 2019. Co-organizer and facilitator of a teach-in featuring Justin Piché, Kevin Walby, Ann Hansen, Jimmy Hogan, and Donny Hogan.
• ‘,’ Interview on Rustbelt Abolition Radio, 29 May, 2019.
• ‘Interweaving #4 - Lisa Guenther and Rivka Rocchio on Mass Incarceration,’ 10 May, 2019.
• ‘Justice for Soli: Islamophobia, Race and Prisons’ (roundtable discussion at 91TV). 25 March, 2019.
• ‘’ (interview on CFRC radio). 17 Oct., 2018.
• ‘,’ The Globe and Mail, 5 July, 2018.
• ‘,’ co-authored with Abigail Levin, The New York Times, 28 Aug., 2017.
• ‘The Ugly Truth behind Mass Incarceration and Recidivism,’ Food for Thought Community Lunchtime Program, Vanderbilt University, 28 March, 2017.
• Lecture on Solitary Confinement, Osher Lifelong Learning Course on Mass Incarceration, Brentwood, TN, 11 Nov., 2016.
• ‘ Radio interview on Interchange, WFHB, 17 November, 2015.
• ‘A Theorist Unchained,’ profile by David Schimke, Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August, 2015.
• Radio interview about teaching philosophy on death row, CHQR news radio, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 10 July, 2015.
• “,” Albert W. Dzur, Boston Review, 26 June, 2015.
• “,” Interview with Tom Crann and Laura Sullivan, Minnesota Public Radio, 13 April, 2015.
• “,” Steven Hale, Nashville Scene, People Issue, 19 March, 2015. 
• “An Interview with Lisa Guenther,” Michael Giesbrecht, Affectus: Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy and Theory 1:1, 2014.
• “,” Radio Interview, The Terry Project, University of British Colombia, 3 July, 2014. 
• ‘,’ Aeon Magazine, 16 April 2014.
• “,” Review of Solitary Confinement by Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 3 April, 2014.
• “,” Interview with Rachel Robinson. Ryerson Philosophy Graduate Student’s Union blog, 6 January, 2014.
• , Prison Radio, 27 Dec., 2013.
• Newspaper interview: “,” Quinn Richert, The Manitoban, 3 Dec., 2013.
• “,” Interview with Martha Coté, Vice Magazine, 18 Nov., 2013.
• ‘,’ Philosopher's Zone (ABC Radio Interview), 13 Oct., 2013.
• ‘The California SHU and the End of the World.’ Society and Space, Forum on The US Carceral Society, 24 Sept., 2013.
• ‘,’ Ideas (CBC Radio Documentary on Solitary Confinement), 3 Sept., 2013.
• ‘,’ New APPS, 22 Aug., 2013.
• ‘The Biopolitics of Starvation in California Prisons.’ Society and Space, 2 Aug., 2013.
• ‘.’ Truthout, 2 Aug., 2013.
• ‘’ Interview in The Believer, June 2013.
• ‘The Living Death of Solitary Confinement.’ The New York Times, 26 Aug., 2012.

Teaching

• PHIL 318 Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 256 Existentialism
• PHIL 276 Critical Perspectives on Social Diversity
• PHIL 406 and PHIL 407 Walls to Bridges
• PHIL 441/841 Critical Phenomenology
• CUST 807/PHIL 821 Settler Colonialism and Incarceration

Education

• PhD, McMaster University

Specializations / Research Interests

Continental Philosophy

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My writings fall broadly within the traditions of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism, and major influences on my work to date include Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gabriel Marcel, John Dewey, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Augustine.

My new book is titled The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis and will be published later this year by State University of New York Press. Current projects include a book titled An Aesthetics of the Sacred.

Whatever free time I have is largely spent with my wife, Gwyneth, and our daughter, Evangeline, or in my home gym. I am an eleventh-generation Canadian and a practicing Roman Catholic.  

Monographs

• The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis. State University of New York Press, 2026.
• History and Hermeneutics. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• Introducing Dewey. Bloomsbury, 2024.
• Historical Imagination: Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative. Bloomsbury, 2022.
• Essays: The Philosophy Crush Podcast. Outskirts Press, 2021.
• Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change. Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account. Co-authored with Jeff Mitscherling. Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Teachability and Learnability: Can Thinking Be Taught? Routledge, 2016.
• Death: A Philosophical Inquiry. Routledge, 2014.
• Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism. Bloomsbury, 2011.
• Education After Dewey. Bloomsbury, 2009.
• Why Democracy? State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Public/Private. Bloomsbury, 2005.
• The Ways of Power: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Social Criticism. Duquesne University Press, 2002.
• Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of Individuality. University of Toronto Press, 2000.
• Theorizing Praxis: Studies in Hermeneutical Pragmatism. Peter Lang, 2000.
• Is There a Canadian Philosophy? Reflections on the Canadian Identity. Co-authored with Gary B. Madison and Ingrid Harris. University of Ottawa Press, 2000.

Edited Books

• Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy. Co-edited with Saulius Geniusas. Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. Co-edited with Saulius Geniusas. Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy. Co-edited with David Bakhurst. Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics. Bloomsbury, 2010.
• John Dewey and Continental Philosophy. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Education

• BA (hons), Keele University
• British Council Visiting Student, Moscow State University
• DPhil, University of Oxford

Specializations / Research Interests 

Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Russian Philosophy, Philosophy of Education

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David Bakhurst is George Whalley Distinguished University Professor and John and Ella G. Charlton Professor of Philosophy at 91TV, Ontario.  His book, Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy (Cambridge, 1991), represents the first critical history of Soviet philosophical culture. The primary research was conducted in Moscow under the mentorship of Felix Mikhailov. Since then, in addition to continuing his work on Russian thought, Bakhurst has written on epistemology, metaphysics, Wittgenstein, ethics and philosophy of education. His publications include The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought (Brill, 2023); The Formation of Reason (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and the edited collection, Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions (2020).  He has held visiting positions at All Souls College, Oxford; Exeter College, Oxford; UCL Institute of Education; and the Australian National University. Bakhurst is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is Executive Editor of Journal of Philosophy of Education. 

Monographs

• The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought (Leiden, Brill, 2023)
• The Formation of Reason (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
• Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

Edited Books / Collections

• (with Paul Fairfield) Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
• (with B. Hooker and M. Little) Thinking about Reasons: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Dancy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• (with S. Shanker) Jerome Bruner: Language, Culture, Self. London: Sage, 2001.
• (with C. Sypnowich) The Social Self. London: Sage, 1995.

Edited Journal Issues

• (with Martin Sticker) Kant on Education and Improvement. Special Issue of Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(6), 2021.
• Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions. Special Issue of Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54 (2), 2020.
• (with I. Kliger) Hegel in Russia. Special Issue of Studies in East European Thought, 65 (3-4), 2013.

Recent Journal Articles

• "Philosophy, Activity, Life", Philosophy of Science and Technology/Философия науки и техники, 27 (12), 2022: 31-45.
• "Education for Metaphysical Animals", Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56 (6), 2022: 812-826.
• "Categorical Moral Requirements"/«Категорические моральные требования», Kantian Journal/Кантовский сборник, 41(1) (2022), pp. 40–59. 
• "Human Nature, Reason and Morality", Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (6), 2021: 1-16. 
• (with Martin Sticker) "Kant on Education and Improvement: Themes and Problems", Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (6), 2021: 1-12. 
• "Après le déluge: Teaching and learning in the age of COVID”. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (4–5) (2021): 1–12. .
• “Analysis and Transcendence in The Sovereignty of Good”, European Journal of Philosophy 28 (2020): 214–223.
• “Teaching, Telling and Technology”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 54/2 (2020): 305–318.
• “Teaching and Learning: Epistemic, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions—Introduction”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 54/2 (2020): 355–267.
• “Practice, Sensibility, and Moral Education”, Journal of Philosophy of Education 52/4 (2018): 677–694.
• “Trouble with Knowledge”, Philosophy, 93/3 (2018): 433–453.
• “On Lenin’s Materialism and Empirocriticism”, Studies in East European Thought 70 (2018): 107–119, DOI: 10.1007/s11212-018-9303-7.
• “Activity, Action and Self-consciousness”, Educational Review 70/1 (2018): 91-99, DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2018.1388618.
• “Training, Transformation, and Education”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 76 (2015): 301-327.

Recent Chapters in Books

• "Mind, Reason, Knowledge", in R.Curren (ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2023, 57-68.
• “E. V. Ilyenkov: Philosophy as the Science of Thought”, in M. Bykova, L. Steiner and M. Forster (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought (forthcoming).
• “Punks versus Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy”, in V. Lektorsky and M. Bykova (eds.), Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A Contemporary View from Russia and Abroad. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 53–78.
• “The Spirit of Pragmatism in the Quads of Oxford”, in C. Misak and H. Price (eds), The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 75-90.
• (with Cheryl Misak) “Wittgenstein and Pragmatism”, in H.-J. Glock and J. Hyman (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, 731-745.
• “Education and Conversation”, in D. Bakhurst and P. Fairfield (eds), Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 5-26.
• “Activity and the Search for True Materialism”, in V. Oittenen and A. Maidansky (eds), The Practical Essence of Man: The ‘Activity Approach’ in Late Soviet Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 17-28.

Recent Review Articles

• “Ilyenkov’s Passion”, Mind, Culture, and Activity 22/1 (2015): 68-73.
• “Understanding Vygotsky: Jan Derry’s Vygotsky, Psychology and Education”, Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 5 (2015): 1-4.
• “David Wiggins’s Sameness and Substance Renewed”, Philosophy 79/1 (2004): 133-141.

Work in progress

I am working on the concepts of habit, imagination and critical reasoning.

Media

“Philosophy’s Blindspot”, , 6 January, 2023

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Teaching

(2023-2024)

• On Sabbatical Leave

Current Supervision

4 doctoral students working respectively on Iris Murdoch, ethical particularism, Evald Ilyenkov, and philosophy of psychiatry