Is There a Canadian Philosophy?: Reflections on the Canadian Identity

About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Paul Fairfield, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Hu­ manities Research Council of Canada, has published numerous scholarly articles on political philosophy, ethics, and philosophical hermeneutics. He is the author of Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tra­ dition: The Politics of Individuality (University of Toronto Press). Ingrid Harris, Ph.D., is a philosopher in private practice and an occasional lecturer in philosophy at McMaster University.She is the author of articles and scholarly papers on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction, Jean­Fran9ois Lyotard and postmodernism, hermeneutics, and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently preparing for publication a book on the philosophy of David Hume. She oversees the International Institute for Philosophical Consulting and is a former director of the Ontario Non­Profit Housing Association. G.B. Madison is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University.He is the author of numerous books dealing with political theory and contemporary Continental philosophy and has written extensivelyon the topics of economic methodolo­ gy, democratic theory, civil society, human rights, and globaliza­ tion. He is a founding member and past president of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought. His most recent book is The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights (Routledge). VII This page intentionally left blank ...