Departmental Colloquium: Jonathan Cottrell (Edinburgh)

Date

Thursday November 3, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Queen's University, Watson 517

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Jonathan Cottrell (Edinburgh) to give a talk, titled, "Reasoning and Rule-Following in Hume's Sceptical Doubts and Solution". The abstract can be found on the poster below.

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Departmental Colloquium: Clinton Tolley (UCSD)

Date

Thursday October 20, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Queen's University, Watson 517

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Clinton Tolley (UCSD) to give a talk, titled, "Aesthetic Suprematism in Post-Kantian (German, Chinese, Mexican) Axiology". The abstract can be found on the poster below.

Departmental Colloquium: Clinton Tolley (UCSD) | PDF Poster

Departmental Colloquium: Christine Straehle (Hamburg)

Date

Thursday October 6, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Queen's University, Watson 517

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Christine Straehle (Hamburg) to give a talk, titled, "Migration, Climate Change and Voluntariness". The abstract can be found on the poster below.

Departmental Colloquium: Christine Straehle (Hamburg) | PDF Poster

Departmental Colloquium: Daniel Viehoff (NYU)

Date

Thursday October 27, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Queen's University, Watson 517

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Daniel Viehoff (NYU) to give a talk, titled, "Legitimate Rule, Independence, and Service". The abstract can be found on the poster below.

Departmental Colloquium: Daniel Viehoff (NYU) | JPG Poster

Departmental Colloquium: Joshua Mozersky (Queen's)

Date

Thursday September 22, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Queen's University, Watson 517

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Joshua Mozersky (Queen's) to give a talk, titled, "The Euthyphro Dilemma, Divine Command Theory, and State Authority: The Necessity of Anarchism". The abstract can be found on the poster below.

Departmental Colloquium: Joshua Mozersky (Queen's) | PDF Poster

Departmental Colloquium: Sergio Sismondo (Queen's)

Date

Thursday September 15, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location

Queen's University, Watson 517

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Sergio Sismondo (Queen's) to give a talk, titled, "Political prescriptions: Two pandemic stories". The abstract can be found on the poster below.

Departmental Colloquium: Sergio Sismondo (Queen's) | PDF Poster

Dalitso Ruwe leads critical race theory discussion with inmates at Collins Bay Institution

Dalitso Ruwe, newly appointed Assistant Professor in Black Political Thought, led a discussion on critical race theory with a group of inmates in the medium security units at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston. The session was very successful, with an engaged discussion and a call from the men that Dalitso return for future conversations.

Clifton, Owen

Owen Clifton

Ph.D., 2024

Philosophy

Arts and Science

Research Interests

Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Practical Ethics, Value Theory

Biography
  • B.A. Honours, Carleton University
  • M.A., 黑料吃瓜资源 University

My research interests lie in political philosophy, normative ethics, practical ethics, and value theory. At present, my two main research projects concern, respectively, the ethics of far-future-affecting policy and the ethics of social and political membership.

I am a and a . In 2022, I was a visiting doctoral researcher in philosophy at the , and part of the early career conference programme at . At the invitation of the same, I will be visiting Oxford again for Trinity term 2023.

Contact

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