David Holdsworth
BSc (Waterloo) MSc (McMaster) PhD (Western Ontario) 
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies 

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Current interests:  Observation and representation in physical theory; valuation and interpretation of mathematics; the (algebraic) topos as site of theory; political discourses and cultural organization of scientific community; interdisciplinary and professional practice within post-modern culture; environmentalism as a moral discourse.

Publications include ‘Becoming Interdisciplinary: Making Sense of DeLanda's Reading of Deleuze”, Paragraph, forthcoming (2006); ‘Transformational Economics and the Public Good’, in Bernard Hodgson (ed.), The Invisible Hand and the Common Good, Springer Verlag (2004); ‘Science, Politics and Science Policy in Canada: Steps towards a Renewed Critical Inquiry,’ Journal of Canadian Studies (2003); ‘Regulating Professional Practice in Canada: Misguided Steps away from Reflexive Modernity,’ Bridging Minds and Markets, 6th Internaltional auDes Conference; 'Science, Technology, and Discourse: Comments on "Textual Analysis in Technology Research', Technology Review (1996); 'Institutions for a Sustainable Civilization: Negotiating Change in a Technological Culture', Proceedings of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (1995); 'Evaluating Environmental Policy: National Contexts and Normative Planning', Proceedings, UNESCO Seminar on the Environment (1993); 'Universality and Rationality: Transdisciplinary Methods and Methodological Pluralism', Proceedings of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (1993); 'Risk Assessment and National Standards: Philosophical Problems' in J. Bonin and D. Stevenson (editors), Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities (Plenum, 1989); 'Critical Survey of Quantum Logic', Scientia (1983).