Gaelan Murphy
Assistant Professor,
Political Sciences
MacEwan University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Gaelan Murphy has a PhD in Government from Georgetown University with a concentration in political philosophy, prior to that he completed his MA and BA at Carleton University. His primary field of research is 19th and 20th century continental political philosophy with a focus on German Idealism and the tradition of thought it inspired. He is currently working on a manuscript titled Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy: Happiness and Education in the Moral Universe of Science in which he argues that the account of life provided for us by the materialism of modern science never provides the happiness it promises.
Research Interest
History of political philosophy,Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato
Publications
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“Right Without Goodness: The Low Liberalism of Hobbes and Locke,†given at 2012 Canadian Political Science Association Meeting in Edmonton, June, 2012.
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“Alexandre Kojève: Cosmopolitanism at the End of History,†in Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens Without States, ed. Lee Trepanier and Khalil Habib, (University of Kentucky Press, 2011), 376 p.
