Philosophy
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Glen Coulthard (2020)
Mar 05, 2020
Glen Coulthard is a member of Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He co-founded the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a [...]
Joy James (2019)
Mar 19, 2019
Joy James is a professor at Williams College. Her research considers the role of mass incarceration in the class and race struggles of the 1970s, and considers incarceration as a form of state violence while also exploring how people of colour resist it through organizing [...]
Christopher Lebron (2018)
Oct 11, 2018
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]
Mike Otsuka (2014)
Oct 30, 2014
“How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Could Have Been” Mike Otsuka is a left-libertarian political philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Prior to this, he taught philosophy at University College London, [...]
Jeff McMahan (2013)
Oct 31, 2013
“Students and Society – Some Literary Views” Norman Jeffares was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished scholars of the poet W. B. Yeats. After Yeats’ death, Jeffares was given access to his personal papers and library, which enabled him to study the author’s [...]
Frances Myrna Kamm (2011-2012)
Jan 30, 2012
“The Prospect of Harm to Civilians in the Ethics of War” Frances Myrna Kamm is Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She is also Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at [...]
Allen Buchanan (2005-2006)
Feb 20, 2006
“Institutionalizing the Just War” Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. From 2011 until 2014, he was Professor of Law at Duke Law School. [...]
Martha Nussbaum (2000-2001)
Jan 20, 2001
“In Search of Universal Values” Martha Nussbaum is a renowned legal academic known for her work on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts. She was trained as a classicist at Harvard University and is an [...]
Douglas Cardinal (1989-1990)
Mar 12, 1990
“The Museum of Civilization: From Vision to Reality” Douglas Cardinal is an Indigenous Canadian architect best known for his designs for the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He also designed the [...]
Moshe Safdie (1989-1990)
Mar 05, 1990
“Architecture vs. the Arts” Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He designed the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Musee de la Civilisation in Quebec City, the Toronto Ballet Opera House, and Expo ’67’s Habitat. He was born [...]
Ivan Illich (1983-1984)
Feb 28, 1984
“Newspeak and Computer Language” Ivan Illich was a theologian, philosopher, historian, and sociologist. Forced to leave Austria during the Second World War because of his mother’s Jewish ancestry, his family moved to Italy, where he completed school and earned a PhD in [...]
Ronald Dworkin (1981-1982)
Feb 11, 1982
“The Paradoxes of Equality” Ronald Dworkin was a widely-respected philosopher of law. At the time of his talk, Dworkin was the professor of jurisprudence at Oxford. In his research and teaching, he examined how the law should deal with race, abortion, euthanasia and [...]