Agnes Tam
Ph.D., 2020
Philosophy
Arts and Science
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Research Interests
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics (especially practical reason)
About
- PhD, Philosophy, Queen’s University
- Dissertation: “Norms, Reasons, and Moral Progress”
- Committee: Will Kymlicka (Chair), Jackie Davis, Colin Farrelly, Margaret Moore, Joseph Heath
- MSc, Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science
- LLB, Law, University of Hong Kong
- Exchange JD, Law, Tulane University
I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary beginning July 2022. I am currently a Banting Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies at McGill University. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Justice Centre of Concordia University. For more information about my research, please visit my personal website.
Publications
- (2020) “Why Moral Reasoning is Insufficient for Moral Progress”, Journal of Political Philosophy 28(1): 73-96.
- (2021) “The Legitimacy of Groups: Toward a We-Reasoning View”, Analyse & Kritik 42(2): 343-68.
- (2021) “A Case for Political Epistemic Trust”, in K. Vallier and M. Weber (eds.), Social Trust, Routledge, 220-41.
- (forthcoming) “Being Popular and Being Just: How Animal Protection Organizations Can be Both”, in V. Giroux, A. Pepper, and K. Voigt (eds.), Ethics of Animal Shelters, Oxford University Press (with Will Kymlicka).