Curriculum Vitae 1 June 2019
PETER J. McCORMICK
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Permanent Member, Institut International de Philosophie
Doctor Honoris Causa in Philosophy of The University of Athens in Greece June 2014
Imamichi International Foundation for Eco-Ethics (Tokyo and Copenhagen) Vice President 2012--2016
2010: Proposed unanimously by Executive Committee of the Institut international de philosophie (Paris) as successor to Professor P. Aubenque as sole candidate for Permanent Executive Secretary (Declined)
Institut international de philosophie (Paris):
Vice President 2006-2009
Comité International d'Orientation Scientifique et Stratégique du Collège de France (Paris):
Vice-President 2006-2009
Conseil de l'École doctorale de l'Institut Catholique de Paris
2009-2011
Fürst Franz-Josef und Fürstin Gina
Memorial Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Liechtenstein
Fürst Franz-Josef und Fürstin Gina Professor Of Philosophy
Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Liechtenstein
1999-2004
Professor of Philosophy University of Ottawa 1973-2001
Professeur honoraire de l'université d'ottawa 2001
Professor of English Literature and Philosophy
University of Ottawa 1979-2001
Former Killam Fellow of the Canada Council, Harvard University
Former Senior A. von Humboldt Fellow, Universität Konstanz
Former Fulbright Scholar, Université de Paris
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017 September 1 -- 31 December 2019: Visiting Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2013-2014 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2006-2007 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Faculté de philosophie, Institut catholique de Paris
2006 May: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Institute for Plato Studies, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein
2004 Fürst Franz-Josef and Fürstin Gina Memorial Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein
1999--2004 Fürst Franz-Josef and Fürstin Gina Memorial Chair in Moral Philosophy, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein
2004 Elected Vice-Rector of the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein (Declined)
2003 May: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland
1980-2001 Professor of English Literature and Professor of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
1992-1993 Senior Research Fellow: Harvard University, Centre for World Religions: Sponsors: Professor Nagatomi Masatoshi and Lawrence Sullivan
l991-l993 Visiting Scholar in Philosophy: Harvard University Sponsors: Professors Hilary Putnam and Israel Scheffler
1991 Winter Semester Visiting Professor: Carleton University (Canada)
1983-1984 Visiting Professor: University of Toronto
1982 Elected to Chair, "Philosophie générale": Université de Neuchâtel (Declined)
1979 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of English Literature: University of Ottawa
1976 Summer Semester Visiting Associate Professor University of Trondheim (Norway)
1973-1979 Associate Professor of Philosophy: Ottawa University
1972-1973 Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Denison University, Ohio (USA)
1971-1972 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy: University of Notre Dame (USA)
1969-1971 Assistant Professor of Philosophy: University of Maryland (Heidelberg, Germany)
1967-1969 Instructor in Philosophy: Loyola College, Maryland
(USA)
ACADEMIC RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS (Selection Only)
2008 Elected Founding Member of the Académie catholique de France (philosophie)
2003 Elected Member of the Institut international de philosophie (Paris)
1998 Elected to Fürst Franz-Josef and Fürstin Gina Memorial Chair in Philosophy, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein, May 1998
1997-2000 Three Year Research Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC)
1996 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1996 Rector's Medal, University of Helsinki
1994-1997 Three Year Research Grant, SSHRCC
1991-1993 Two Year Killam Research Fellow
of the Canada Council, Harvard University
1991-1994 Three Year Research Grant, SSHRCC
1990: June and July Selected for participation in the National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institute at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore USA)
1990 Summer Research Grant: Humboldt Foundation, Freiburg (Germany)
1989-1991 Two Year Research Grant, SSHRCC
1987-1989 Two Year Research Grant, SSHRCC
1985-1986 Leave Fellowship: Paris, SSHRCC
1984-1985 Research Grant, SSHRCC
1982 Elected to Chair, "Philosophie générale": Université de Neuchâtel (Declined)
1982 Co-Founder of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics / Société canadienne d’Esthétique
1981-1982 Senior Research Fellow, Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence, SSHRCC (Canada) and CNRS (France-Centre nationale de recherche scientifique) Sponsors: Professor G. G. Granger and Professor Guillermit
1980 Elected Co-Organizer of the World Congress of
Aesthetics for Montreal 1984
1979-1981 Two Year Research Grant, SSHRCC
1976-1978 Two Year Senior Research Fellowship, Universität Konstanz (Germany), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1973 Summer Ford Foundation Fellowship
1967-1969 Fulbright Scholar, Université de Paris
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
1980 Doctorat d'État-es-Lettres (Habilitation), Philosophy: University of Paris,
Director: Paul Ricoeur
1969-1971 Post-Doctoral Studies in Philosophy, University of Heidelberg
Supervisor: Hans-Georg Gadamer
1970 Ph.D. Philosophy (Doctorat de troisième cycle), University of Paris,
Director: Paul Ricoeur
1966 M.A. English Literature, Fordham University and Columbia University
1965 Ph.L. Philosophy, Fordham University
1964 B.A. Philosophy and Classics, Fordham University
HABILITATION AND DOCTORAL THESES
Habilitation: Doctorat d'État-es-Lettres: philosophie (Paris 1980)
Title: «La vérité en littérature».
Director: Paul Ricoeur
Examiners: Walter Biemel (Düsseldorf)
Henri Birault (Paris)
Jacques Taminiaux (Louvain)
Mikel Dufrenne (Paris)
Grade: «très honorable à l'unanimité»
(Note: Doctorat d'État degrees in 1980 were graded either «passable» or «honorable» or «très honorable».)
Doctorat de troisième cycle (Ph.D.) (Paris 1970)
Title: «Les considérations d'Heidegger sur le langage dans Heidegger's Unterwegs zur Sprache».
Director: Paul Ricoeur (Paris)
Examiners:Pierre Aubenque (Hamburg, Paris)
Mikel Dufrenne (Paris)
Grade:«très bien»
(Note: Doctorat du troisième cycle degrees (PH. D.) at all French Universities in 1970 were graded either «passable», «bien», or «très bien». Only candidates graded "tres bien" were eligible to prepare a Doctorat d'État.)
Peter McCormick, Book Publications
Books
Since We Are ¨Poor: Social Ethics and the Ineradicability of Extreme Poverty (In preparation, Completed book ms Fall 2021)
Relationals: On the Nature and Grounds of Persons. Cracow: Copernicus Center Press, 2020.
Aspects Darkly Yellowing: Ethics, Intuitions, and the Modernist Poetry of Suffering and Passage. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 and Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2010.
Restraint’s Rewards: Limited Sovereignties, Ancient Values, and the Preamble for a European Constitution. Olomouc: Palacky University Press, 2014.
Moments of Mutuality: Re-Articulating Social Justice in the EU Today. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 and Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2012.
Poverty Among Immigrant Children in Europe, with A. Bhalla. London: Macmillan Palgrave, 2009.
Eco-Ethics and Contemporary Philosophical Reflection: The Technological Conjuncture and Modern Rationality. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2008.
Eco-Ethics and An Ethics of Suffering: Ethical Innovation and the Situation of the Destitute. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2008.
Ethics and the Deep Pathos of Things: Famines, Philosophies, and Philosophical Ethics. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2003.
The Negative Sublime: Ethics at the Dark Borders of Reason. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2003.
Modernity, Aesthetics, and the Bounds of Art. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1990.
Fictions, Philosophies, and the Problems of Poetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Heidegger and the Language of the World: An Argumentative Reading of the Later Heidegger on Language. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1976.
Essay Collections
The Spirit That We Sought: Essays in Ethics and Poetics
(December 2021, forthcoming).
Modernities: Histories, Beliefs, and Values. Nordhausen: Bausch Verlag, 2020.
Solicitations: Poverties, Discourses, and Limits. Nordhausen: Bausch Verlag, 2020.
In His Own Arms: Events, Actions, Persons. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2018.
In Times Like These: Essays in Ethics: Situations, Resources, Issues. Nordhausen: Bausch Verlag, 2017.
Blindly Seeing? Essays in Ethics: Discourses, Sayings, Sufferings. Nordhausen: Bausch Verlag, 2017.
In the Moment of Your Passing: Essays in Ethics, Aesthetics, and Metaphysics. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2015.
Of Three Minds: Essays in Ethics: The Political, the Social, the Global. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2014.
Professional Book and Article Collections Edited
Starmaking: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Irrealism, ed. P. McCormick. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996 and 2018.
Roman Ingarden: Über das Wesen, hrsg. P. McCormick. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2007.
Symbol, Fiction, Communication, ed. P.McCormick.
AE:CanadianAestheticsJournal, 2(1997);
< http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~guedon/AE/vol-2/table.htm>
Eco-Ethica et Philosophia Generalis: Festschrift for Imamichi Tomonobu, ed. M. Damnjanovic, P. McCormick, et al. Tokyo: Academic Press, 1992.
Nishitani Keiji's The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism, tr. G. Parkes and S. Aihara. General Editor: P. McCormick, Albany: SUNY, 1990.
Aesthetica et Calonologia: Festschrift for Imamichi Tomonobu, ed. M. Damnjanovic, P. McCormick, et al. Tokyo: Academic Press, 1988.
The Aesthetics of Roman Ingarden: Interpretations and Assessments, ed. P. McCormick and B. Dziemidok, The Hague: Nijhoff, 1988.
Roman Ingarden: Selected Papers in Aesthetics, ed. P. McCormick. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1986.
Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan, tr. Y. Seisaku and R. Carter. General Editor: P. McCormick, Albany: SUNY, 1986.
The Reasons of Art/L'art a ses raisons: Acts of the Xth International Congress in Aesthetics, ed. P. McCormick. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1985.
Husserl: Shorter Works, ed. P. McCormick and F. Elliston. Notre-Dame: University of Notre-Dame Press, 1981.
Husserl: Expositions and Appraisals, ed. P. McCormick and F. Elliston. Notre-Dame: University of Notre-Dame Press, 1977.
