Allan MacLeod

  • Assistant Professor
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.
  • amacleod@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • B.A. (Honours), Political Science and Economics, York University, 1969
  • M.A., Political Science, University of Alberta, 1971
  • PhD., Political Science, University of Toronto, 1979

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Political Thought
  • History of Political Thought
  • Political Thought and Literature

Research Projects

  • The Tragedy of Politics
  • The Idea of a Public Religion
  • Habermas, Moral Truth and Discourse Democracy
  • The Religious Bases of Early Modern Political Thought

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • "Taylor on Locke:  Is the Lockean self atomistic?", a paper given at the Philosophical Association of Religiously Affiliated Colleges, Campion College, March 2008
  • "The Moral and Ethical in Habermas's Theory of Legislation," an invited lecture at the University of Regina, March 2004
  • "Plato's Protagoras: Moral intuitions, emotions and rhetoric", a paper given at the Wetsern Canadian Section of the Conference on Social and Political Thought, Agustana College, October 2002

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Introduction to Modern Political Thought 
  • American Government and Politics: Foundations
  • American Government and Politics: Processes and Institutions
  • Contemporary Political Thought
  • Seminar in Political Thought and Literature
  • Seminar in Contemporary Problems in Political Thought
  • Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Issues in Political Thought
  • Supervision of M.A. theses

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Research Committee, STM