Elizabeth (Betty) Trott
Research Interests
Social and political philosophy; Human rights, race, and multiculturalism; Aesthetics; Philosophy of literature, film and culture; Kant, Hegel and the 19th century; MetaphysicsSelected Publications & Presentations:
Recent Publications
2021 鈥淣ew Perspectives in Canadian Philosophy鈥�, Guest Editors' Introduction (with Robert Timko and Janet Wesselius) to a special issue entitled New Perspectives in Canadian Philosophy, American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 51, no. 3, Sept. 365-377.
2020 "Multiculturalism as a Discourse of Disguise: A Possible Canadian Solution", Minorities in Canada: Intercultural Investigations (Special issue of 颁辞濒濒别肠迟颈辞苍&苍产蝉辫;碍谩谤辞濒颈), K谩roli G谩sp谩r University, 11-38.
2020 鈥淐harles De Koninck, John Leslie, and the Conceptual Parameters of Science.鈥� Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science, ed., Philip MacEwen. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 164-194.
2019 鈥淐anadian Philosophy: A Dialectical Exploration,鈥� American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, March 2019, 187-195.
2019 鈥淓ducation: The Practice, the Product, the Missing Link,鈥� Maritain Studies, vol. XXXV, 45-59.
2018 鈥淓arly Canadian Political Culture: Hegelian Adaptations in John Watson,鈥� Hegel and Canada, Eds. Susan M. Dodd, Neil G. Robertson, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 163-197.
2017 鈥淧hilosophy as Story-Telling,鈥� URAM, Vol., 35, nos. 3, 4 (2012), 190-203.
2016 "Idealism and Ethics: GWF Hegel and Leslie Armour" Philosophy, Culture and Tradition, Vol. 11, 93-107.
2015 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� and 鈥淧ostscript鈥� to four Symposium papers on Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, URAM
Sept-Dec, 2011, published 2015, 184-190, 267. "Leslie Armour: Idealist, Metaphysician, Philosopher of Community, Friend" Collingwood and Idealist Studies, 21:1, 2015, 1-23. (co-author William Sweet) "Is Religious and Political Art Really Art?" Maritain Studies, Vol. XXIX, 3-14.
2012 "Kant's Legacy, Murder as Art" URAM, Vol. 32, no 2,3,4, 2009, issued 2012. "Freedom of Speech and Political Correctness," Science and Esprit, 64/2, 179-193.
2011 鈥淭he Evolving Absolute,鈥� Science and Esprit, 63/1, 1-18. "Charles De Koninck (1906-1965) "Canada's Eminent Philosopher of Nature" URAM, Vol. 31, no 4 2008, issued 2011, 241-259.
2007 鈥淪aving the Wilderness: When Beauty is Not Enough.鈥� Maritain Studies, Vol. XXIII, 53-63.
2006 鈥淭. H. Green, Democracy and Education鈥�, co author Darin Nesbitt, Paideusis, Vol.15, no. 2, 61-78.
2005 鈥淐anada, the Caribbean and Multiculturalism: Dialectical Reasoning and Common Ground,鈥� Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.1, no. 1, 83-95.
Entries on Canadian philosophers in the Thoemmes Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John Shook, and in the Thoemmes Dictionary ofTwentieth Century British Philosophers, ed., Stuart Brown.
Recent Presentations
2017 "Introducing Canadian Philosophy", President鈥檚 Keynote Address URAM, U of T, Aug. 3.
2016 "The Self, The Individual, and Educational Paradoxes", Jacques Maritain Society St Paul University, Ottawa, Oct. 29.
2015 "A Tribute to Leslie Armour" Keynote Address at Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology, Ottawa, November, 30. 鈥淧hilosophy as Story Telling鈥�, URAM conference, University of Toronto, Aug5-8 鈥淔red Wilson, FH Bradley and Relations鈥�, URAM conference, U of T, Aug 5-8 "Idealism and Ethics", Jacques Maritain Association, University of Ottawa, May 30.31.
2014 "The Metaphors of Selves", Jacques Maritain Association, Brock University, May 28-30.
2013 "The Self, The Individual and The Person" conference on Idealist theories of the Self, Manchester College, Oxford University, August 27-30.