1. William Sweet studied at Carleton University, the University of Manitoba, the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, and the Centre Sevres.
13 Facts About William Sweet
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William Sweet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2014, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017.
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William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Theology, and Cultural Traditions at St Francis Xavier University.
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William Sweet has been a member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Ottawa, and serves as an adjunct professor in the graduate programmes of Saint Paul University and of the College dominicain de philosophie et de theologie in Ottawa, Canada.
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William Sweet was Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Religious Studies at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he served as the Vice President from 2007 to 2008.
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William Sweet has been a visiting professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, Soochow University, Taipei, Fu Jen University, Taipei, and the Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and the University of Pune, in India.
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Much of William Sweet's work is in the history of modern philosophy, although he uses this as a resource and a vehicle to address contemporary issues in political philosophy, applied ethics, and the philosophy of religion.
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William Sweet's view is that these traditions provide a basis for a liberal, but non-individualistic, political philosophy.
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William Sweet gives a brief account of a positive theory of idealist ethics in his Introductory essay to his edited volume on The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists and he defends a broadly Maritainian view of dignity and human rights in a number of recent essays.
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William Sweet argues that these accounts misrepresent or misunderstand what religious belief is, and that a more accurate account of religious belief, and a broadly coherentist theory of truth can be used to address a number of contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion, such as the relation of religion and science.
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William Sweet has been a major contributor to the international programmes of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy and of the World Union of Catholic Philosophical Associations and the Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain.
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William Sweet has published a number of books on intercultural philosophy, and was one of the drafters of the 2024 Barletta Declaration.
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William Sweet's work has been published in Castilian, Chinese, English, French, Gallego, German, Italian, Persian, Polish, and Vietnamese.