Papers and Publications                                                                     January 2001
   Richard T. Peterson
   Professor

   Books
 Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge, Penn State University Press, 1996.
 Coeditor, Philosophy, Children, and the Family, New York:  Plenum Press, 1982.

   Book Chapters
 "Conceptualizing the Family," in Philosophy, Children, and the Family, pp. 3-16.
 "Women and Family Life," in Philosophy, Children, and the Family, pp. 73-80.

   Articles

 "Critical Discussion of 'Home Economic: A Definition'," in Home Economics:             A Definition, Washington, D.C.: AHEA, 1979, pp.63-90.
 "Foucault and the Politics of Social Reproduction," Humanities in Society, Vol. 5, Nos.   3 and 4 (Summer, Fall 1982), pp. 231-243.
 "Marx and the Crisis in Social Dialectic," Praxis International, Vol. 3, No. 4, January1984,
  pp. 348-58.
 "Alienation Theory and the Arms Race," Newsletter, Research Committee on      Alienation Theory, International Sociology Association, June 1984, pp.8-13.
 "Kaelin on Philosophical Literature," Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XIX, 1985,                pp. 469-475.
 "The Original Position as Social Practice" (co-authored with Stephen L. Esquith),
  Political Theory, Vol. 16, no. 2, May 1988, pp. 300-334.
 "Alienation and Intellectual Practices" in Alienation Theories and De-alienation    Strategies, edited by D. Schweitzer and F. Geyer, London: Science Reviews,1988.
 "Technology, Culture, and Democratic Politics," The Centennial Review, Vol. XXXV,    No. 1, Winter 1991, pp. 31-50.
 "Development:  Historical Aspects of an Unavoidable Idea," CASID CURRENT, MSU,   December 1991, pp. 1-2.
 "The Division of Labor as a Philosophical Idea," forthcoming in Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer   Philosophie.
 "Intellectual Mediation After Liberalism and Socialism," in Political Dialogue: Theories
  and Practices, ed., Stephen Esquith, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities, 1996, Vol. 46, pp. 183-213.
 "Toward a Democratic Multiculturalism," in Community, Difference, and
  Diversity, eds., Alison Bailey and Paula Smitka, Rodopi, forthcoming.
  “Kimlikler ve Cumhuriyetci Tani(n)ma” (“Identities and Republican Recognition”), in Cumhuriyet (Republicanism, an invited collection commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Turkish Republic), ed., Nuri Bilgin, Ege University, Izmir, 1999, pp. 153-59.
  "Race and Recognition," Race, Class, and Community Identity, eds., Andrew Light and Mecke Nagel, Humanity Press, 2000.
  “The Possibility of Human Rights,” Center for Advanced Study of International Development, 2000.  [this article has also appeared on the Web Site, “E Philosopher” (www.ephilosopher.com)]
 
 

   Reviews
 Leon Goldstein, Historical Knowing, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,   December 1977.
 Maurice Mandelbaum, The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge, PPR, March 1979.
 Peter Berger, Facing Up to Modernity, PPR, June 1980.
 Adam Podgorecki and Maria Los, Multi-Dimensional Sociology, PPR, December 1981.
 Collins, Wainer, and Bremmer, eds., Science and the Question of Human Equality,   Contemporary Sociology, November 1982.
 Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, Centennial Review, Vol. XXVIII, No.             4 and Vol. XXIX, No. 1, 1984-85.
 John Sallis, ed., Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida, in The   Modern Schoolman, LXVII, January 1990.
  Donald A. Crosby, The Specter of the Absurd, The Modern Schoolman, LXIX,  November 1991.
 Stuart Barnett, ed., Hegel After Derrida, Essays in Philosophy, I, No.2, June 2000.

   Translation
  Michael Gross, "The East German University Transformed: Reflections of a Participant," Centennial Review, Winter 1994.

   Acting Editor
 Centennial Review, Winter 1993, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1, special issue: "Poland:  From   Real Socialism to Democracy."
 Centennial Review, Spring, 1993, Vol XXXVIII, No. 2.

   Co-editor, special collections, Centennial Review
  "Four Essays on Scientific Integrity and the University," Spring 1994.
  "Four Essays on Computers, Knowledge, and the Disciplines," Fall 1994, accompanied   by co-authored "Introduction."

   Conference Papers
  "Incompatible Conceptual Frameworks in Habermas's Social Theory," Conference on  Critical Theory, Center for Critical Studies in Education, SUNY at Buffalo, August 1975.
  "Ideology and Cognition," Panel on Critical Theory, American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 1976.
  "The Problem of a Critical Definition of Home Economics," National Forum on the definition of Home Economics, Denver, January 9, 1979.
 Same paper presented to Home Economics Defined Regional Forum, Dallas, March 9,   1979.
 "Theses and Problems Regarding a Social Theory of Knowledge," Fourth Conference on   the Current State of Marxist Theory, University of Louisville, November 17, 1979.
 "Foucault and the Politics of Social Reproduction," a conference on Knowledge, Power,   History at the University of Southern California, October 29-31, 1981.
  "Alienation and Intellectual Practices," 10th World Congress of Sociology, Mexico City, August 16-21, 1982.
 "Crisis in Social Dialectic," invited paper, American Philosophical Association, Baltimore,
   December 1982.
  "Kaelin on Philosophical Literature," Symposium:  Phenomenological Approaches to Comparative Literature, MSU, February 7-8, 1983.
  "Worldliness, Adulthood, and the Concept of Middle Age," National Conference on Middle Age, MSU, May 21, 1983.
  "What Are the Social Structures of Alienation?"; Conference on Urban Alienation and the Search for De-alienation Strategies, Ohio State University, May 4-5, 1984.
  "Alienation Theory and the Arms Race," Conference on Karl Marx in the East and West, MSU, June 2, 1983.
 "The Politics of Alienation," Marx and Christianity:  100 Years Later, the University of
   Santa Clara, October 18-19, 1984.
 "Orwell and the United States," Conference on Orwell's 1984, MSU, March 1, 1984.
 "Dialectical approaches to the Social Being of Theory," Critical Directions in Symbolic   Interactionism:  Meeting of the Society of the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, Northern Illinois University, March 5-7, 1984.
  "The Theory of Knowledge in the Critique of Popular Culture," Popular Culture Association Meetings, Toronto, March 30- April 1, 1984.
 "Manufacturing Stability in A Theory of Justice" (co-authored with Stephen Esquith),   Conference on Marxism and Ideology, University of Minnesota, Aug. 29-31, 1985.
 "Criticism and the Language of Foreign Policy," Twentieth Conference on Modern   Literature"  The Politics of Experience, MSU, Oct. 3-5, 1985.
  "Normative Aspects of the Democratic Critique of Mass Culture," Popular Culture  Association Meetings, Atlanta, April 2-4, 1986.
 "Ideology and Social Action," panel presentation, McKee Symposium, Department of   Sociology, MSU, May 10, 1986.
 "Alienated Politics and the Problem of Community," 11th World Congress of Sociology,   New Delhi, August 18-22, 1986.
 "Alienated Politics and Foreign Policy,"  11th World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi,   August 18-22, 1986.
 "The Original Position as Social Practice" (co-authored with Stephen Esquith), American   Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 30, 1986.
 "Philosophical Criticism and the Iran/Contra Affair," American Philosophical Association   Meetings, Cincinnati, April 1988.
 "Democracy and Knowledge/Power:  Historicizing the Communication Ethic," accepted   for Conference on discourses of Power, Arizona State University, Oct. 20-22, 1988.
  "Communication Theory and the Critique of Alienation," 12th World Congress of
   Sociology, Madrid, July 1990.
 "Postmodernism, Liberalism, and the Politics of Agency," International Association of
  Philosophy and Literature, Montreal, May 16-18, 1991.
 "Rationality Debates:  Philosophy within the Division of Labor," Radical Scholars
   Conference, Loyola University, November 10, 1991.
 "Dialogue vs. Dialectic?  Bakhtin and Political Criticism," American Philosophical
   Association, New York, December 28-30, 1991.
 "Challenging the Division of Labor:  Philosophy, Democracy and the Question of
   Expertise,"  Radical Scholars Conference, Loyola University, November 29-31, 1993.
 "Democracy and Intellectual Mediation--After Socialism and Liberalism," Radical
   Philosophy National Conference, Drake University, Nov. 3-6, 1994.
 "Toward a Democratic Multiculturalism," Conference on "Community, Difference and
  Diversity: Implications for Peace,"  University of Dayton, October 19-22, 1995.
 "Du Bois's Dialectic of Political Recognition," Conference on "The Academy and Race,"
  March 8-10, 1996,  Villanova University.
 "Race and Recognition," Radical Philosophy Association National Conference, Purdue
  University, Nov. 14-17, 1996.
 "Race, Identity, and Critical Theory," Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of
  Massachusetts, Amherst, Dec. 5-9, 1996.
 “Conceiving Racial Change,” for Intersections of Race, Morgan State University, Oct.30-
  Nov. 1, 1997.
 “Race, Politics, and Social Reason,” panel on Race and Democracy, American
   Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 29, 1997.
 “Du Bois as a Democratic Race Intellectual,” panel on the centennial of “The
   Conservation of Race,” American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, Dec.   30, 1997
 “Heidegger’s Racialism,” World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Aug. 10-18, 1998.
  “Race as Politics,” Radical Philosophy Association National Conference, San Francisco State University, Nov. 5-8, 1998.
  “Multiculturalism and the Idea of Race,” conference on Current Trends in American Society and Culture, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitaet, Greifswald, Germany, May 3-4, 1999.
  “Race, Media, and Politics,” Marxism 2000, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Sept. 212-24, 2000.
  “The Possibility of Human Rights,” conference on Justice and Justification, McMaster University, Oct. 26-29, 2000.
  “Media Politics and Human Rights,” Philosophy and Politics to Begin a New Millennium, Loyola University, Nov. 2-5, 2000.

Other Papers
 "Habermas's Theory of Cognitive Interests," Department of Philosophy, Michigan State   University, February 1977.
 "Marx on Religion," Montclair State College Colloquium, April 1977.
 "The Problem of Ideology in Dialectical Social Theory," graduate Seminar in Sociology,   MSU, December 1977.
 "Dialectical Method in Capital, vol. I,"to Graduate Seminar in Sociology, MSU,
   December 1977.
 "Marx and the Problem of Concrete Dialectic," Colloquium, James Madison College,   MSU, April 1978.
 "Philosophical Issues Facing Home Economics," College of Human Ecology, MSU, April   6, 1979.
 "Social Theory And the Problem of Knowledge," Department of Sociology, MSU, May   29, 1979.
 "Systems of Action and Issues of Practical Rationality Facing Home Economics,"Summer
   Workshop:"Home Economics Defined," MSU, July 3, 1979.
 "Problems of Knowledge and Freedom in Marxist Thought," MSU Philosophy Club, April
   18, 1983.

 "Habermas and Communication Theory," Colloquium, College of Communications Arts   and Sciences, MSU, Spring, 1984.
 "Rawls and Proceduralism," Colloquium on the History of Economic Thought,
   Department of Economics, MSU, May 20, 1985.
 "Communication Theory and the Critique of Alienation," Department of Philosophy,   MSU, February, 1990.
 "Bakhtin, Philosophy, and Political Criticism," Calvin College, February, 26,1992.
  "The Division of Labor:  A Philosophical Idea?" Department of Philosophy, MSU, November 13, 1992.
  “Recognition Conflicts and Winnicott’s Account of ‘The Piggle,’” Michigan Psychoanalytic Council Meeting, Ann Arbor, May 1998.
 “ ‘Race’ als Politik,” John F. Kennedy Institute, Frei Universitaet, Berlin, May 31, 1999.