Christine Sypnowich penned the lead piece of this week鈥檚 Boston Review forum, 鈥溾. In the piece, Christine argues that, 鈥淏eing serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives 鈥 not merely that we have the chance to do so鈥.
Next week, Daryn Lehoux, 黑料吃瓜资源 National Scholar, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, will give NYU鈥檚 Twelfth Annual , a prestigious series of four lectures, named after the great ancient historian Michael I. Rostovtzeff. Daryn鈥檚 topic: 鈥淓pistemic Corruption and Epistemic Progress in Ancient Science鈥.
PhD Candidate Owen Clifton has been awarded a visitorship at (GPI) for Trinity Term 2023.
Date
Wednesday March 29, 2023Location
Queen's University, Watson 517The Equity Committee of the 黑料吃瓜资源 Department of Philosophy invites you to join us for "Equity and Food: A Panel Discussion", with Lee Bess (Scientist, Entomologist), Elaine Power (Professor of Kinesiology), and Ayla Fenton (Food Systems Manager Loving Spoonful), moderated by Dolleen Tisawii鈥檃shii Manning, (黑料吃瓜资源 National Scholar, Anishinaabe Knowledge, Language and Culture). Further details can be found on the poster below.
Date
Monday March 27, 2023Location
Watson 517Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Owen Clifton (黑料吃瓜资源), titled "Associative Duties and the Formal Priority of Distributive Justice".
Further details, as well as Owen's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
David Bakhurst, George Whalley Distinguished University Professor and John and Ella G. Charlton Professor of Philosophy, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education, was recently featured on NPR鈥檚 鈥溾, discussing why education matters to philosophy.
Recently launched on February 23rd is a new online database created as part of a SSHRC-funded collaborative project by a team of researchers and front-line organisations across Ontario and Canada, and built in part by Catherine Stinson's Ethics and Technology Lab at Queen's University. Tracking (In)Justice has been created to monitor and provide information about the date and location of police violence as well as age, race, and gender of victims when available based on publicly available sources.
Date
Monday March 13, 2023Location
Queen's University, Watson Hall Room 517The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Jan Zwicky (Victoria) to give a talk, titled, "The Syntax of Ethical Style". The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Date
Thursday February 2, 2023Location
Queen's University, Watson 517The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Andrew Lopez (Queen's University) to give a talk, titled, "It's Just a Joke: Thinking Online Politics with Jorge Portilla". The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Departmental Colloquium: Andrew Lopez (Queen's University) | PDF Poster
Dalitso Ruwe, newly appointed Assistant Professor in Black Political Thought, will speak at TEDxQueensU, this February 5th, at the Kingston Grand Theatre.
