Еmail: wmcbride@purdue.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-7134-1273
Scopus ID: 16496418800
Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor; Director, Philosophy & Literature
PhD, Yale University,Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University (Indiana, USA)
Selected Honors
- President, International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP, 2008-2013).
- Past President, North American Society for Social Philosophy (2000-2005).
- Co-founder of the North American Sartre Society.
- Member, Editorial Board, Library of Living Philosophers.
- Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Academiques (France).Fulbright Fellowships (France, 1959-1960; Bulgaria, fall 1997).
Specialization:
Social Political Philosophy, Legal Philosophy, Continental European Philosophy
Selected Publications
Publications in SCOPUS and WoS
- McBride, W. (2016). Intellectuals: Who they are and how they work. Contemporary Political Theory, 16(1), 131-136. doi: 10.1057/s41296-016-0073-z
- McBride, W. (2016). Is a Rational Politics a Real Possibility? Political Phenomenology, 35-42. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27775-2_2
- McBride, W. (2015). Permanent Deviation: Understanding Our Place in History with the Aid of Sartre's Critique, Volume Two. Philosophy Compass, 10(10), 685-689. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12254
Books:
- From Yugoslav Praxis to Global Pathos: Anti-Hegemonic Post-Post-Marxist Essays. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
- Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
- Social and Political Philosophy. New York: Paragon House, 1994.
- Sartre’s Political Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
- The Philosophy of Marx. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1977.
Edited Books:
- Social and Political Philosophy (Vol. 2 of the Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy). Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2006.
- Sartre and Existentialism, in 8 volumes. Hamden, CT: Garland, 1997.
Articles:
- “Marx: The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.” In The Classics of Western Philosophy, eds. Gracia, Reichenberg and Schumacher, 293-298. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
- “Rawls’s Law of Peoples and the New World Order.” In Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century, ed. D. Chatterjee, 187-199. London, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
- “German Philosophy, Influence of.” In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, eds. J. Lachs and R. Talisse, 322-328. 2008.
- “John Wild, Phenomenology in America, and the Origins of SPEP,” in Continental PhilosophyReview 44. 3 (August 2011), pp. 281-284.
- “Regression in History: Where Are We Now?”, Journal of East-West Thought 1, 1 (December 2011), pp. 41-52.
- “The Challenge of Existentialism, Then and Now”, Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26, 2 (2012), pp. 255-260.
- “The Teaching of Social and Political Philosophy as Seen from Western and Non-Western Perspectives”, Philosophia osviti (Ukraine) 11, 1-2 (2012), pp. 8-16.
- “Borders Crossed, and Some of Those Who Have Crossed Them,” Hypatia 28, 2 (spring 2013), pp.404-409.
5 chapters in books:
- “Europe: A View from an Insecure North American Homeland,” in The Addressees of the EU Internal and External Policy: De Jure and De Facto,” ed. A. Gungov and K. Mamdani, Sofia, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2011, pp. 9-20.
- “Existentialism as a Cultural Movement,” in The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism, ed. S. Crowell, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 50-69.
- “Father Berrigan and the Marxist-Communist ‘Menace’,” in Faith, Resistance, and the Future, ed. J. L. Marsh and A. J. Brown, Fordham U.P., 2012, pp. 49-56.
- Preface a Esthetique de la Reflexivite: Essai sur la dimension interculturelle de l’anthropologie existentielle de J.-P. Sartre , par Nke Fridolin, Saarbrucken, Editions Universitaires Europeennes, 2012, pp. 11-16.
- “Beauvoir and Marx,” in Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler, ed. S. Mussett and W. Wilkerson, Albany, SUNY Press, 2012, pp. 91-102.
Article published in Ukraine:
- “Integration into What? The International Arena in Mid-2007,” in Нова Парадигма, № 65, 1 (2007), pp. 32-39.
- “Викладання соціальної та політичної філософії з точки зору західної і незахідної перспектив” in Філософія освіти, Philosophy of Education, №1/2 (2011), рр. 9-16. www.philosopheducation.com
- “Sartre аnd America”, in Філософія освіти, Philosophy of Education, №2 (2017), рр. 265-275. www.philosopheducation.com