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Trudy Govier
Recent work and new projects

  • Development of ideas on forgiveness and revenge
  • Chapter on Reconciliation for a volume on "Philosophy of War", to be edited by Larry May and published by Cambridge University Press
  • Paper on dichotomization to be presented at the June 2007 Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation at the University of Windsor
  • Member, Network for Informal Logic, Reasoning and Argumentation Theory. Research Network organized by Professors J. A. Blair and R. H. Johnson, Philosophy Dept., University of Windsor; funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
  • Regular columns and occasional articles for Humanist Perspectives
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    Recent book:

    Taking Wrongs Seriously: Acknowledgment, Reconciliation, and the Politics of Sustainable Peace

    This recent book explores the processes of political reconciliation after serious wrongdoing, from a secular point of view.

    Books on forgiveness, reconciliation, trust, argument and more

    Articles in collaboration with Wilhelm Verwoerd

    In 1998-2004 Trudy Govier collaborated extensively with the South African philosopher, Wilhelm Verwoerd, who was a staff researcher with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and presently works with ex-combatants at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation in County Wicklow, Ireland.


    They have written six papers together.
    • The Promise and Pitfalls of Apologies
      • Journal of Social Philosophy 33, Spring 2002
       
    • Taking Wrongs Seriously: a Qualified Defence of Public Apology
      • Saskatchewan Law Review 65, Winter 2002
       
    • Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
      • Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32, June 2002.
    • Forgiveness: the Victim's Prerogative
      • South African Journal of Philosophy 21, 2002

    • Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
      • Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 16, Sept. 2004


      A landscape at Stellenbosch, South Africa

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