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Recent Philosophy News
Sep 14, 2021
Will Kymlicka Awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s Pierre Chauveau Medal
Will Kymlicka has been awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s Pierre Chauveau Medal for his distinguished contribution to knowledge in the humanities.
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Aug 19, 2021
Udo Schüklenk on CBC Radio & Canada’s COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel
Udo Schüklenk was on CBC Radio’s Ontario Morning, discussing universities requiring staff and students to be vaccinated. This follows the latest report from Canada’s COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel, of which Udo is a member.
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Jul 23, 2021
Udo Schüklenk on CBC radio: when is it appropriate to require people to disclose their vaccination status?
Udo Schüklenk, Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics, was interviewed on CBC radio’s Ontario Morning about when it is appropriate to require people to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status.
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Jul 13, 2021
Kerah Gordon-Solmon awarded SSHRC Insight Grant for "Duties, Constraints, Prerogatives, and Permissions: Or, How to Defend Lesser-Evil Options"
Kerah Gordon-Solmon has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for her project, "Duties, Constraints, Prerogatives, and Permissions: Or, How to Defend Lesser-Evil Options".
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Jul 03, 2021
Recent PhD Agnes Tam joins University of Calgary as Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Agnes Tam (PhD, 2020) will join the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in July of 2022, after taking up a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University for the 2021-22 academic year.
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Jun 14, 2021
Congratulations to Philosophy Graduates of 2021!
Congratulations to all of this year's Philosophy graduates! We regret we could not gather to celebrate in person. Click to see a list of our 2021 graduates, and to watch a video message from the Department of Philosophy, congratulating you all for completing your degrees.
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Upcoming Philosophy Events
Sep
20
Monday
Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy: Philip Pettit (Princeton)
Paper title: “Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy”
Sep
23
Thursday
Departmental Colloquium & The Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture: Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC)
Lecture Title: "Cultural Appropriation, Aesthetic Injustice"
Oct
04
Monday
Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy: Adam Perry (Oxford)
Paper title: “Precedent and Fairness”
