{"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><strong>Note: <\/strong>Retired from full-time teaching (Associate Professor) in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Randal Marlin was an Adjunct Professor in the Philosophy Department at Carleton 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><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><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002, 328 pp.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The David Levine Affair (Halifax: Fernwood Books, 1998, 176 pp.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapters in edited works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\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>\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>\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>&#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>\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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