Research and Publications

Publications:

Articles, book chapters:

• “Jürgen Habermas,” in The New Makers of Modern Culture, Justin Wintle, ed. (Routledge: 2006).

• “Referentiality in Heidegger and Frege,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (1), 37-52, 2005.

• Introduction to Perspectives on Meaning in Heidegger,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (1), 5-7, 2005.

• “Translator’s Introduction” to Jürgen Habermas, Truth and Justification. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

• “Coordinating Perspectives in Context: Comments on James Swindal’s Reflection Revisited," Philosophy and Social Criticism 29, no 2 (2003): 137-146.

• “Inferentialism and Communicative Action: Robust Conceptions of Intersubjectivity,” Philosophical Studies 108 (1-2), 121-131, 2002.

• “Intelligibility and Conflict Resolution in the Lifeworld,” Continental Philosophy Review 34 (4): 419-436, 2001.

• “Do Social Philosophers Need a Theory of Meaning? Social Theory and Semantics After the Pragmatic Turn,” in Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory, William Rehg and James Bohman, eds. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), 145-162.

• “Translator’s Introduction” to Jürgen Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

• “The Politics of Vulnerability: Idealization in Butler and Habermas,” in Philosophy Today, vol. 42, supplement (1999): 94-103.

• “Of Parts and Wholes: The Molecularist Critique of Semantic Holism,” in Protosoziologie, vol. 11 (1998): 41-65.t

• “Idealization, Acceptability and Fallibilism in Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Meaning,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4, no. 2 (1996): 233-251.

• “Rules in Context,” Philosophy in Canada 1 (Milliken, Ontario: Agathon Books, 1991).

Reviews:

• “Maeve Cooke: Re-Presenting the Good Society,” in Notre Dame Philosophy Review (April 2007)

• “Intersubjectivity in the Space of Reasons” (review of Robert Brandom, Making It Explicit), Philosophy and Social Criticism, 27, no. 1 (2001): 107-113.

• David West, Introduction to Continental Philosophy, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 19, no. 6 (1999): 451-453.

• Frank Farrell’s Subjectivity, Realism and Postmodernism, book note in Ethics 106, no. 1 (1995): 23.

Translations:

• Jürgen Habermas, Truth and Justification. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Paperback 2005.

• Jürgen Habermas, “From Kant’s ‘Ideas’ of Pure Reason to the ‘Idealizing’ Presuppositions of Communicative Action,” in Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory, William Rehg and James Bohman, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

• Jürgen Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in theTheory of Communicative Action. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

• Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, Claus Offe, Albrecht Wellmer (eds.). Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.

Manuscripts under review:

• "Gender, Discourse, and Non-Essentialism." In Dialogue, Ethics, and Gender Identity, ed. Jude Browne. Completed commissioned article, book manuscript under submission with Routledge.

Work in Progress:

• Habermas: Key Concepts. Edited book. To be published by Acumen Publishers.