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Allan McLeod

  • Assistant Professor
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8936
  • amcleod@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
  God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for nothing.”
— John Henry Cardinal Newman