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Kym Maclaren

Kym Maclaren

Associate Professor
EducationBA (Toronto); MA, PhD (Pennsylvania State)
OfficeJOR-418
Phone416-979-5000 ext. 55-2700
Areas of ExpertisePhenomenology; Existentialism; 20th century French philosophy (especially Merleau-Ponty); Philosophy of Mind and Embodiment; Philosophical Psychology; Social Philosophy

Kym Maclaren founded the Transformative Justice Project (TJP) at Ryerson University. The Transformative Justice Project works, in collaboration with community organizations to:

  1. Establish initiatives that address the social conditions leading to and resulting from incarceration;  and,
  2. Develop other, more transformative and community-based, forms of justice.

TJP鈥檚 current project involves facilitating conversations between youth and previously incarcerated people who were involved in gang-associated street-life. The aim is to encourage reflection on the social conditions of street conflict, to open up a sense of other possible life trajectories, and to enhance community engagement and respect for self and others.  We're also aiming to institute a program inside prisons that will enable the same kind of conversation and reflection for incarcerated youth, with a focus on Black social history.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Edited Collections

  • Morris, David and Kym Maclaren, eds. Time, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty鈥檚 New Ontology of Self. Forthcoming, Ohio University Press, 2015.
  • Maclaren, Kym, ed. Special Issue: Intimacy and Embodiment: Phenomenological Perspectives. Emotion, Space and Society 13 (2014)

Selected Articles, Chapters, and Commentaries

  • 鈥淚ntimacy as Transgression and the Problem of Freedom.鈥� Puncta: Journal for Critical Phenomenology 1 (2018):18-40.
  • 鈥淢erleau-Ponty on Human Development and the Retrospective Realization of Potential.鈥� Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 16(4) (2017), 609-621.
  • 鈥淭he 鈥�别苍迟谤别-诲别耻虫鈥� of Emotions: Emotional Institutions and their Dialectic.鈥� In Perception and its Development in Merleau-Ponty's Phemenology, edited by John Russon and Kirsten Jacobson.  University of Toronto Press, (2017): 51-80.
  • 鈥淭he Magic Happens Inside Out: A Reflection on the Transformative Power of Self-Expression and Dialogical Inquiry in Inside-Out Prison Exchange Courses,鈥� in 鈥淓ngaged Philosophical Inquiry,鈥� ed. Barbara Weber and Jennifer A. Vadenboncoeur, special issue, Mind, Culture, Activity 22, no.4 (2015): 371-385.
  • 鈥淭ouching Matters: Embodiments of Intimacy.鈥� Emotion, Space and Society 13 (2014)
  • 鈥淓motional Clich茅s and Authentic Passions: A Phenomenological Revision of a Cognitive Theory of Emotion.鈥� Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 10, No. 1 (2011): 45-65.
  • 鈥淓motional Metamorphoses: The Role of Others in Becoming-Oneself鈥�, in Embodiment and Agency: New Essays in Feminist Philosophy, edited by Susan Sherwin, Letitia Meynell, and Sue Campbell. Pennsylvania State University Press, (2009): 1-45.
  • 鈥淓mbodied Perceptions of Others as a Condition of Selfhood? Empirical and Phenomenological Considerations.鈥� Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 15, No. 8 (2008): 63-93.
  • 鈥淭he Role of Emotion in an Existential Education: Insights from Hegel and Plato.鈥� International Philosophical Quarterly Vol.48 (2008).
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