Date
Thursday September 19, 2024Location
Dunning Hall, Room 11The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, for this year's Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture, part of the Department's regular colloquium series, which will welcome C. Thi Nguyen (Utah), to give a talk titled, “Scoring Systems and Mechanized Values”.
Date
Thursday September 12, 2024Location
Queen's UniversityThe Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the first meeting of the academic year's regular colloquium series, which will welcome David Bakhurst (Queen's), to give a talk titled, "Anscombe versus Austin". For more details, see the poster below.
David Bakhurst (Queen's) | "Anscombe versus Austin" | Departmental Colloquium
Date
Wednesday September 11, 2024Location
Queen's University, Watson 517Faculty and graduate students are invited to join the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a popular piece by Christine Sypnowich (Queen’s), ‘Your Property Isn’t Really Yours’. Further details, as well as Christine's paper, will be circulated via email.
For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
Udo Schüklenk, Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics, has a new article in Social Philosophy & Policy: "Public Health, Public Health Ethics Principlism, and Good Go
Andrew Lopez (PhD, 2024) will join the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor this fall. Congratulations, Andrew!
On June 10, 2024, in the BMJ today, researchers Sergio Sismondo and Maud Bernisson sift through nearly 900 contracts which together reveal a carefully coordinated effort to shape medical attitudes toward pain medicine.
Pharmaceutical companies have a long history of managing physician and public opinion, explain the authors. For example, by recruiting physicians to serve as influencers, planting articles in scientific journals, coordinating conference presentations, and developing continuing medical education (CME) courses.
Kathryn Lawson, recent PhD and lecturer at Carleton University, has published her first book, a revised version of her PhD dissertation, with Routledge's Environmental Ethics series. The book is entitled Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene.
Professor Emeritus Michael Allen Fox presents a fresh discussion of the concept of fate and its role in philosophy, religion, politics, culture, and the history of ideas in Fate and Life: Who's Really in Charge? (McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2024).
PhD Candidate Josh Livingstone has recently published a new article, "Defending Philosophy: Plato, Heidegger, and Meno's Paradox", in Symposium.
Recent PhD Kathryn Lawson and current PhD student Joshua Livingstone have edited an anthology of essays recently published through Bloomsbury Press.
