Principal areas of research and teaching interest

Teaching

• political philosophy (particularly on issues of human rights);

• the character of religious faith (e.g., the influence of science and technology on religion and, broadly, epistemology of religion);

• the relation of culture and tradition to philosophical thinking (particularly, comparative Asian and Western philosophy);

• late 19th and early 20th century Anglo-American Philosophy (particularly, the origins of analytic philosophy and British Idealism);

• ethical theories and applied ethics (especially, cross-cultural ethics);

• the philosophy of Jacques Maritain

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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