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I am Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. This site contains information about my academic career and research interests. My CV is available here.   PubMed entries here. National Post article on “positive biology” here, and CBC radio interview here.  Open … Continue reading →

             Books (1)  An Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory (London: Sage Publications, 2004). (2)  Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader (London: Sage Publications, 2004). (3)  Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) (4)  Virtue Jurisprudence (co-edited with Lawrence Solum) (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008 … Continue reading →

I regularly teach POLS 250 An Introduction to Political Theory and POLS 402/857 Science and Justice.  Here are the trailers for those two courses: In POLS 250, which is a history of political thought course from Plato to Marx, I … Continue reading →

Research Statement More than 2000 years ago Aristotle described politics as a normative practical science. He believed that politics was the most authoritative of all the sciences (prescribing which sciences ought to be studied) because the central concern of politics … Continue reading →

Video presentation of Essay in Oct. 2012 issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine: Paper presented at the Social Philosophy and Policy Conference in Tucson, Arizona (Jan. 2013) Video presentations on aging and longevity science (1st video … Continue reading →