{"id":131,"date":"2010-03-09T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:43:32","slug":"marlin-randal-robert-alexander","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/people\/marlin-randal-robert-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Randal Robert Alexander Marlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note: <\/strong>Retired from full-time teaching (Associate Professor) in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randal Marlin was an Adjunct Professor in the Philosophy Department at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. His focus of research was communication ethics, in particular the study of ethical dimensions of persuasion and propaganda. His most recent publication is Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion (Broadview: August 1, 2002). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jacques Ellul<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Propaganda and communication ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Existentialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philosophy of law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002, 328 pp.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The David Levine Affair (Halifax: Fernwood Books, 1998, 176 pp.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapters in edited works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCartesian Freedom and the Problem of the Mesland Letters,\u201d in Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in honour of Robert F. McRae, edited by Georges J.D. Moyal and Stanley Tweyman; New York: Caravan Books, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCensoring Pornography,\u201d in Women and Public Policy. Reprints selected from Policy Options, and with an introduction by Doris Anderson, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRawlsian Justice and Community Planning,\u201d in Susan Hendler, Planning Ethics: a Reader in Planning Theory, Practice and Education, Rutgers University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Where There&#8217;s Smoke,&#8221; in Gillian Thomas, Words in Common: Essays on Language, Culture and Society&#8221;; Toronto, Addison Wesley Longman, August 1999 (Reprinted from Canadian Forum).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Muted Bugle: Self-Censorship and the Press,\u201d in Klaus Petersen and Allan Hutchinson, eds., Interpreting Censorship in Canada, September 1999, University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4516,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Randal Robert Alexander","cu_people_last_name":"Marlin","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[60],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-131","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-in-memoriam"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"A.B. 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