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William
Sweet
Dr
William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy and Director
of the Centre for Philosophy, Theology and Cultural
Traditions at St
Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
He is a member of the Faculty of Graduate
Studies at the University
of Ottawa, and an Adjunct Professor in the
graduate programmes at Saint
Paul University,
the Dominican
University College (Ottawa), and at the University
of New Brunswick.He currently serves as President of the Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain (Rome), as President of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies, and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie. He is a Past President of the Canadian Philosophical Association, the Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, and the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association. He may be contacted at Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University Box 5000 Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5 Canada e-mail: wsweet (at) stfx.ca |
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Current Teaching (2012-13) o Philosophy 240 / second
term (Philosophy of Religion) o Catholic Studies 322
(Contemporary Issues in Christianity and Science) o Philosophy 452 (Seminar
in Ethics and Political Philosophy) |
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Education Doctoral studies in political
science at the Sorbonne at the Université de Paris
(D.E.A.)
and in philosophy at the University
of Ottawa (Ph.D) and
at the Université Saint-Paul
(D.Ph.).
Additional studies at Carleton University (B.A. Hons., M.A.), the University of Ottawa (B.A. Hons., B.Th.), Saint Paul University (B.Ph., S.T.B., L.Ph.), and the University of Manitoba (M.A.), and at: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Wien (Austria), Centre Sèvres, (Faculté de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jésus, Paris), Collège International de Philosophie (Paris), Collège de France, Collège dominicain de philosophie et de theologie (Ottawa), Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the Goethe Institut. |
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Personal
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moderately recent research profile. A brief biography Varia and some fun stuff |
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