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Kenneth Baynes, Curriculum Vitae

Updated April 2006


Employment:

Syracuse University, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, 2003-
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Professor of Philosophy, 2002-2003
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1993-2002
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1987-93
Boston University, Assistant Professor, 1986-87
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Instructor in Philosophy and the Program in Law and Justice, 1982-85

Education:

Boston University, PhD, Philosophy (1987)
Boston University, MA, Philosophy (1983)
Harvard University, Divinity School, MTS, Theology (1978)
Gordon College, BA, Philosophy (1975)

Publications:

Books:

Discourse and Democracy: Essays on Habermas's 'Between Facts and Norms', co-edited with Rene von Schomberg (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002)

The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992)

Translation of Axel Honneth, The Critique of Power (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991)

After Philosophy: End or Transformation?, co-edited with James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987)

Articles:

Refereed Journals:

  1. “Ethos and Institution: On the Site of Distributive Justice” The Journal of Social Philosophy 37 (2006), pp. 184-198.
  2. “’Gadamerian Platitudes’ and Rational Interpretations,” Philosophy and Social Criticism June 2006
  3. “Understanding Evil” (Review Essay), Constellations 11 (2004), pp. 434-444.
  4. “Freedom and Recognition in Hegel and Habermas”, Philosophy and Social Criticism 28 (2002), pp. 1-17.
  5. "Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights: Karl Marx, Wendy Brown and the Social Function of Rights," Political Theory 28 (2000), pp. 451-468.
  6. "Deliberative Democracy and the Regress Problem", The Modern Schoolman 73 (July 1997): 178-184.
  7. "Modernity as Autonomy," Inquiry 38 (1995): 289-303
  8. "Communicative Ethics, The Public Sphere, and Communication Media," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11 (1994): 315-326
  9. "Constructivism and Practical Reason in Rawls," Analyse und Kritik 14 (1992): 18-3
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  10. "Liberal Neutrality, Pluralism, and Deliberative Politics," Praxis International 12 (1992): 50-69
  11. "Rational Reconstruction and Social Criticism: Habermas's Model of Interpretive Social Science" The Philosophical Forum 21 (Fall 1989): 122-145; reprinted in Hermeneutics and Critical Theory, ed. by Michael Kelly (MIT Press, 1990)
  12. "Kant on Property Rights and the Social Contract" The Monist 72 (July 1989): 433-453
  13. "State and Civil Society in Hegel: Comments on Dallmayr and Arato" Cardozo Law Review 10 (March 1989): 1415-1426
  14. "Dialectic and Deliberation in Aristotle's Practical Philosophy," Southwest Philosophy Review 6 (1990): 19-42
  15. "The Liberal/Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics" Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (1988): 293-313; reprinted in Universalism vs. Communitarianism, ed. by David Rasmussen (MIT Press, 1990)

Book Chapters:

  1. “Freedom as Autonomy”, Routledge Handbook of Continental Philosophy, ed. by Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen (Routledge Press, forthcoming 2006)
  2. “Cosmopolitanism and the Public Law,” NOMOS (forthcoming 2006)
  3. “Freedom, Norm and Recognition in Hegel,” Proceedings of the International Hegel Congress, forthcoming 2006
  4. “Disagreement and the Legitimacy of Legal Interpretation,” in Multiculturalism and Law: Critical Debates, ed. by Omid Payrow (University of Wales Press, 2006)
  5. “The Transcendental Turn: Habermas’s Kantian Pragmatism” in The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, ed. by Fred Rush (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 194-218.
  6. “Editors’ Introduction,” in Discourse and Democracy, ed. by Rene von Schomberg and Kenneth Baynes (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002), pp. 1-11.
  7. "Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Liberalism," in Discourse and Democracy, ed. by Rene von Schomberg and Kenneth Baynes (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002), pp. 15-30.
  8. “Habermas” in Political Thinkers: Socrates to the Present, ed. by David Boucher and Paul Kelly (NY: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 476-491.
  9. Foreword to Otfried Hoeffe, Categorical Principles of Law, trans. by Mark Mignotti (State College: Penn State University Press, 2002), iii-xx.
  10. Practical Reason, the ‘Space of Reasons’and Public Reason, in Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory, ed. by William Rehg and James Bohman (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 53-85.
  11. A Critical Theory Perspective on Civil Society and the State, in Civil Society and Government, ed. by Nancy Rosenblum and Robert Post (Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 123-145.
  12. Deliberative Politics, The Public Sphere, and Global Democracy, in Critical Theory and World Politics, ed. by Richard Wynn Jones and Roger Tooze (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001), pp. 161-170.
  13. "Communitarian and Cosmopolitan Challenges to Kant's Conception of World Peace," Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal, ed. by James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997), pp. 219-234
  14. "Equality and Difference in Contemporary Democratic Theory," in Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. by Ron Bontekoe and Marietta Stepaniants (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), pp. 51-59
  15. "Kommunitaristische und kosmopolitische Kritik an Kants Konzept des Weltfriedens" in Frieden durch Recht, ed. by Matthias Lutz-Bachmann and James Bohman (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1996), pp. 324-343
  16. "Public Reason and Personal Autonomy" in The Handbook of Critical Theory, ed. by D. Rasmussen (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1996), pp. 243-254
  17. "Liberale Neutralität, Pluralismus und deliberative Politik," in Bürgergesellschaft, Recht, und Demokratie, ed. by B. van den Brink and V. van Reijen (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1995), pp. 360-84
  18. "Democracy and the Rechtsstaat: Remarks on Habermas's Faktizität und Geltung" in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, ed. by Stephen White (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 201-232
  19. "Communication and Violence" in Law, Justice and Violence, ed. by N. Garver and J. Brady (Temple University Press, 1991), pp. 82-89
  20. "Crisis and the Lifeworld in Husserl and Habermas" in Crises in Continental Philosophy (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), ed. by Arlene Dallery and Charles Scott (SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 57-68

Encyclopedia Contributions:

  1. “Apel, Karl-Otto,” The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed, (Thomson Gale, 2005)
  2. "Legitimacy" in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, ed. by Joel Krieger (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 495-96.
  3. "Habermas, Jürgen" The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. by Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 1998), 193-200.

Article Translations:

  1. Jürgen Habermas, "Law and Morality: Two Lectures" in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. VIII, ed. by Sterling McMurrin (Salt Lake City: Utah University Press, 1988), pp. 217-279
  2. Seyla Benhabib, ed., On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993)--translation of the essays by Habermas, Honneth, Bonss and Lohmann

Reviews:

  1. Review of D. Dyzenhaus, ed., Law as Politics in Ethics 111 (2001): 663-664
  2. Review of Vincent Descombes, The Barometer of Modern Reason in Constellations 2 (1995): 141-143
  3. Review of T. Wartenberg, ed., Rethinking Power in Ethics 104 (1994): 909-911
  4. Review of Craig Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere in Ethics 103 (1993)
  5. Review of J. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory in Political Theory 21 (1993): 544-547
  6. Review Note on J. Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action in Ethics 102 (1992): 680
  7. Review of A. Honneth and H. Joas, Social Action and Human Nature in The Philosophical Review (1992)
  8. Review Note on Alan Carter, Marx: A Radical Critique in Ethics 101 (1991): 673-74
  9. Review Note on E. Simpson, ed., Anti-Foundationalism and Practical Reasoning in Ethics 99 (July 1989): 970
  10. Review of Terry Pinkard, Democratic Liberalism and Social Union in The Review of Metaphysics 42 (1988): 846-48

Invited Talks and Papers:

  1. “Progress in the Public Use of Reason?” Symposium on Public Philosophy, Binghamton University, April 2006
  2. “Modesty, Dignity and Respect,” Law, Culture and Humanities Symposium, Political Science, Syracuse University, March 2006
  3. “Cosmopolitanism and International Law,” Castle Lecture, Political Science, Yale University, November 2005
  4. “Two Models of Autonomy”, 13th Critical Theory Roundtable, Dartmouth University, Dartmouth, NH, November 2005
  5. “Freedom, Norm and Recognition in Hegel”, 8th International Hegel Congress, Stuttgart, Germany (May 2005)
  6. “Ethos and Institution” Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, (May 2005)
  7. “Cosmopolitanism and International Law,” Prague, (May 2005)
  8. “Reviving the Labor Theory of Value,” Comments on APA presentation, American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 2004
  9. “Cosmopolitanism and Public Law,” NOMOS (Society for Political and Legal Philosophy), American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, December 2004
  10. “Disagreement and the Legitimacy of Legal Interpretation,” International Conference on Law and Politics, University of Guelph, Canada, November 2004
  11. “Practical Reason and Public Reason,” Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality, Madrid, Spain, March 2004
  12. “On the Site of Distributive Justice: Cohen’s Critique of Rawls”, International Rawls Conference,” Lisbon, Portugal, November 2003
  13. “’Gadamerian Platitudes’ and Rational Interpretations,” Conference on the work of Robert Brandom, University of Stony Brook, New York, November 2003
  14. “Communicative Action and the Deliberative Stance,” University of Montreal, November 2002
  15. “Deliberative Democracy and Political Equality”, Political Theory Workshop, Montreal, November 2002 (and at Yale University in March 2003)
  16. “Brandom and Habermas on the Sources of Normativity,” Critical Theory Round Table, Saint Louis University, October 2002
  17. “Horkheimer and the Critique of Instrumental Reason,” NYU Conference on Critical Theory, November 2001
  18. “Public Reason and Liberal Values”, Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Franscisco, September 2001
  19. “Freedom and Recognition in Hegel and Habermas”, Dept of Philosophy, University at Binghamton, April 2001; Department of Philosophy, UC Riverside, February 2001
  20. “The Sources and Limits of Public Reason,” Center for Political Economy of War and Peace, Columbia University, March 2000
  21. “The Sources and Limits of Public Reason,” Critical Theory Roundtable, Toronto, October 1999
  22. "A Critical Theory Perspective on Civil Society and the State", Conference on "Civil Society and Government", The Ethikon Institute, Santa Fe, NM, January 1999
  23. Comment on Steven Hendley, "Constitutional Patriotism: Habermas's Conception of a Liberal Political Culture", Eastern APA Meetings, Washington, DC, December 1998
  24. "Collective Rights and Minority Cultures", World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998
  25. "The Public Sphere and the Role of Intellectuals", The Humanities Institute, SUNY, Stony Brook, October 1997
  26. "Deliberative Democracy and the Limits of Liberalism", International Conference on Justice and Law, Federal University, Florianopolis, Brazil, August 1997
  27. "Deliberative Politics and Procedural Democracy," Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Porto Allegre, Brazil, August 1997
  28. "Kant and Cosmopolitanism" Invited Paper to the North American Kant Society, Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, December 1996
  29. "Hegel and Patriotism: Response to Buchwalter", Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, December 1996
  30. "Substance and Procedure in Habermas's Democratic Theory", Conference on Critical Theory and Alternate Modernities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1996
  31. "The Public Sphere and Global Democracy," Conference on Critical Theory and International Relations, University of Wales, Aberwystwyth, Wales, May 1996
  32. "Rights as Critique and the Critique of Rights," Conference on Models of Critique, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, May 1996
  33. "Communitarian and Nationalist Challenges to Kant's Conception of World Peace," Conference on Kant's "Perpetual Peace", Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, May 1995
  34. "Equality and Difference," Seventh East-West Philosophers' Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 1995
  35. "Equality and Difference", Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, November 1994
  36. "Public Reason and Personal Autonomy," Workshop on the Public Sphere, Essen, Germany, November 1994
  37. "Postmodernism and Political Theory," Invited Paper, APA Central Division Meeting, April 1994
  38. "Pluralism and Deliberative Politics," Political Science Dept, Northwestern University, March 1994
  39. "Deliberative Politics and Law," Conference on Habermas's Faktizität und Geltung, Tilbourg University, The Netherlands, January 1994
  40. "Transcendental Arguments and Rational Reconstructions," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, October 1993
  41. "The Communicative Ethics Controversy," International Communication Association, Washington D.C., May 1993
  42. "Practical Reason and Moral Autonomy," Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, November 1992
  43. "Liberal Neutrality, Pluralism, and Deliberative Politics," Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 1992
  44. "Kant's Republicanism and the Modern/Postmodern Dispute," American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1992
  45. "Deliberative Politics and the Rechtsstaat," Conference on Habermas's Legal Theory, Cardozo Law School, September 1992
  46. "Autonomy, Reason, and Intersubjectivity," American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 1992
  47. "Pluralism and Consensus in Moral Theory," Annual Graduate Student Conference, St. Louis University, St. Louis, April 1992
  48. "Liberal Neutrality and Deliberative Politics," Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Dubrovnik, April 1991
  49. "Liberal Neutrality and the Plurality of the Good," Freie Universität, Berlin and Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, May 1991
  50. "Justice Without Metaphysics?" Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, October 1991
  51. "Communicative Ethics and the Limits of Moral Theory," American Philosophical Association, Central Division, New Orleans, April 1990
  52. "The Liberal/Communitarian Controversy and Communicative Ethics," Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, George Mason University, March 1989 and Teachers' College, Columbia University, March 1989
  53. Commentary on S. Cotta, "The Nihilistic Significance of Violence," Conference on Law and the Legitimation of Violence, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 1989
  54. "Adorno's Model of Critique: A Reply to Lee," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Convention, December 1988
  55. "Crisis and the Lifeworld in Husserl and Habermas," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Northwestern University, October 1988
  56. "State and Civil Society in Hegel," Conference on Hegel and the Law, Cardozo Law School, April 1988
  57. "Critical Theory and Postmodern Politics," The Department of Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, April 1988
  58. "Habermas and the Question of Modernity," The Humanities Institute, SUNY/Stony Brook, March 1988
  59. "Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 1987

Grants and Awards:

  • NEH Summer Institute on Ethics, UC, Santa Cruz, Summer 1992
  • Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 1990-91
  • Faculty Development Research Grant, SUNY, Summer 1990
  • SUNY Travel Grant, April 1989
  • Faculty Development Research Grant, SUNY, Summer 1988

Departmental and University Service:

Syracuse University:

  • Search Committee, Department of Philosophy (2004)
  • Search Committee, Department of Political Science (2004)
  • Arts and Science Committee for Humanities Center (2004)
  • Committee for Citizenship Initiative, Maxwell School (2004)

Stony Brook University:

  • Acting Director, Humanities Institute, SUNY (Spring 2003)
  • Chair, Search Committee for Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, SUNY (Summer 2002)
  • Chair, Graduate Council, SUNY (2001-present)
  • External Faculty Mentor, Political Science (2001-present)
  • Graduate Council (2000-present)
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Dept of Philosophy (1999- 2001)
  • University UREKA Committee (1998-present)
  • University Senate Research Council (1997-1998)
  • University Senate Curriculum Committee (1995-1996)
  • Associate Dean of Humanities (1993-1994)
  • Department Undergraduate Director (1992-1994)
  • Department Graduate Program Committee (1991-92, 1994-1997)
  • Committee on Budget and Resource Allocation (1992-1993)
  • University Senate, Department Delegate (1991-92)
  • University Personnel and Policy Committee (1989-90)
  • Director, Department Colloquium Series (1989-90)
  • University Undergraduate Advising Program (Summer 1989)
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor Committee (1988-89)
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1988-89)
  • History of Philosophy Exam Committee (1987-90)

Other Professional Activities:

  • Program Planning Committee, APA Eastern Division (2005-2007)
  • Member North American DAAD (German Academic Exchange) selection committee (2001-2003)
  • Editor, SUNY Series in Political and Social Thought, SUNY Press (1992-2002; over 20 volumes published)
  • Member, Editorial Council, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory
  • Book Review Editor, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (1994-1999)
  • Editor, The Philosophers' Annual (1997-2004)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Theoria (South Africa)
  • In-house Referee for the series "Concepts in Social Thought," University of Minnesota Press (1987-91)
  • Manuscript Referee for
    • Ethics
    • Canadian Journal of Philosophy
    • American Political Science Review
    • Political Theory
    • The Philosophical Forum
    • Political Studies
    • Praxis International
    • Sociological Theory
    • Polity
    • European Journal of International Relations
  • Book Manuscript Referee for
    • Cambridge University Press
    • Columbia University Press
    • Cornell University Press
    • MIT Press
    • SUNY Press
    • Stanford University Press
    • SAGE Publications

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