Dr. David E. McClean

Selected Philosophical and Theological Papers

Doctoral Dissertation:

Richard Rorty and Cosmopolitan Hope: A Critical Analysis of Rorty’s Ironism and Antifoundationalism and Consideration of Their Uses in Forging Cosmopolitan Sensibilities (Abstract)

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50 Proposal for Reform and Reclamation: In Support of the Wall Street Protesters and the 99 Percenters

Derivatives and the Financial Crisis: Ethics, Stewardship & Cultural Politics

Now What? - Richard J. Bernstein and Philosophy after Rorty

The Shibboleths of Social Justice and the Future of Inclusion

Book Review: The Ethics of Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Book Review: In The Company of Black Men - The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City , by Craig Steven Wilder

A Sesame Street Primer for the Supreme Court

The Theological Uses or Rortian Ironism (Journal of Speculative Philosophy)

The Cultural Left and the Limits of Social Hope

Beyond Strategic Globalization - Markets, Firms, Poverty and the Future ofthe Species

Filling in the Gaps: Love, Theory, Practice and the Current Situation

Wade in the Water: Evasion, Transformation and Hope

Toward a Tenable Cosmopolitanism

Philosophers, Religion and the Dogs of Reason

Should we conserve the notion of race?

Awe and Reverence as Ways of Seeing: Implications for a Future Public Square

The End of Religion? - A Response to Christopher Hitchens and Company

Black Humanity and the Crisis of Home

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