Dieleman, Susan

Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership

Philosophy Department

Phone
(403) 329-2768
Email
susan.dieleman@uleth.ca

About Me

As of July 2023, I am the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge. Before coming to Lethbridge, I taught at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2018-2023), the University of Saskatchewan (2015-2018) and Dalhousie University (2012-2015).

I completed a PhD in Philosophy at York University (2011), an MA in Public Policy and Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (2012), an MA in Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (2005) and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University (2002).

Publications

Dieleman, S. 2023. "Richard Rorty: Narrative as Anti-Authoritarian Therapy and as Cultural Politics." In The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism, edited by Scott Aikin and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge.

Dieleman, S., McClean, D. E., Showler, P. (eds.) 2022. The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination. New York: Routledge.

Ramberg, B., Dieleman, S. 2021. "Richard Rorty." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/

Dieleman, S. 2021. "Thinking with Rorty about How to Make Philosophy More Livable." In The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty, edited by Giancarlo Marchetti. New York: Routledge.

Dieleman, S. 2021. "Tinkering with Truth, Tinkering with Difference: Rorty and (Liberal) Feminism." In The Cambridge Companion to Rorty, edited by David Rondel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dieleman, S. 2019. "Class Politics and Cultural Politics." Pragmatism Today: The Journal of the Central-European Pragmatist Forum 10(1): 23-36.

Dieleman, S., Rondel, D., Voparil, C. (eds.) 2017. Pragmatism and Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dieleman, S. 2015. "Epistemic Justice and Democratic Legitimacy." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 30(4): 794-810.

Dieleman, S. 2014. "Locating Rorty: Feminism and Poststructuralism, Experience and Language." The Pluralist 9(3): 110-120.

Dieleman, S. 2014. "Pragmatist Tools for Public Administration." Administration and Society 49(2): 275-295. doi: 10.1177/0095399714541268

Dieleman, S. 2014. "Urban Agriculture, the Idyllic Farmer, and Stupid Knowing." Social Philosophy Today 30: 47-62.

Dieleman, S. 2011. "The Roots of Rorty's Philosophy: Catharine A. MacKinnon." Pragmatism Today: The Journal of the Central-European Pragmatist Forum 2(1): 123-132.

Dieleman, S. 2010. "Revisiting Rorty: Contributions to a Pragmatist Feminism." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 25th Anniversary Special Issue 25(4): 891-908.

Research Interests

Pragmatism (especially the work of Richard Rorty)

Feminist Philosophy (especially issues relating to epistemic injustice)

Social and Political Philosophy (especially theories of deliberative democracy)

In The Media

Dieleman, S. et al. 2019. "People are Turning to This Late American Philosopher in Troubled Times." On CBC Ideas, produced by Tom Howell. Original Broadcast Date: December 6, 2019. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/people-are-turning-to-this-late-american-philosopher-in-troubled-times-1.5387197

Dieleman, S. 2023. "Episode 044." On Podcast or Perish, hosted and produced by Cameron Graham. Original Broadcast Date: June 2, 2023. https://www.podcastorperish.ca/episodes/episode-044-susan-dieleman