Date
Thursday October 5, 2023Location
Queen's UniversityThe Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Karen Lewis (Barnard/Columbia) to give a talk, titled, “Imagined Audiences and Common Ground”.
Date
Thursday September 28, 2023Location
Queen's UniversityThe Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Arthur Hill (Queen’s) to give a talk, titled, “Political Legitimacy, Moral Thresholds, and the Problem of Stratified Societies”. The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Date
Thursday September 14, 2023Location
Queen's University, Ellis Hall, Room 226The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Rachel Fredericks and Jeremy Fischer to give a talk, titled, "Justice in the Cafeteria". The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Departmental Colloquium: Rachel Fredericks and Jeremy Fischer | PDF Poster
PhD candidate Andrew Lopez’s new paper, “Nonhuman Animals and Epistemic Injustice”, has been published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. The abstract reads as follows:
This week, Christine Sypnowich published her latest piece of public philosophy, “Equality without compromise”, in Aeon.
Philosophy undergraduate student Nicholas Abernethy has published an article in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics, titled “Institutional Conscientious Objection to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: A Critical Analysis of the Personnel-Based Arguments”. Congratulations Nicholas!
Will Kymlicka, Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Dalitso Ruwe, newly appointed Assistant Professor in Black Political Thought, has been elected to join the prestigious CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program this year, an ambitious initiative providing two years of unrestricted research funding to talented and distinguished early-career researchers who are tackling important and pressing questions facing science and humanity.
Christine Sypnowich penned the lead piece of this week’s Boston Review forum, “Is Equal Opportunity Enough?”. In the piece, Christine argues that, “Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives – not merely that we have the chance to do so”.
Next week, Daryn Lehoux, Queen’s National Scholar, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, will give NYU’s Twelfth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series, a prestigious series of four lectures, named after the great ancient historian Michael I. Rostovtzeff. Daryn’s topic: “Epistemic Corruption and Epistemic Progress in Ancient Science”.
