Education:

• BA (Hons.) in Philosophy at McGill University
• MA in Philosophy at Western University

Publications:

• "Explain Yourself: The Ethics of Soliciting Advice." Journal of Social Philosophy (Early View). doi.org/10.1111/josp.12601.
• "Against the Right to Work, For the Right to Contribute." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 30, no. 5 (2025): 673-696. doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v30i5.3371.
• "Care Worker Migration and the Responsibility for Rectifying Injustice." Canadian Journal of Practical Philosophy 7, no. 1 (2021): 1-19. doi.org/10.22329/cjpp.v7i1.8208.

Research Interests (General): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Normative Ethics

Research Interests (Specific): My research in political philosophy concerns the role and legitimacy of political boundaries across three domains: democracy, territorial rights, and global justice.

My research in social philosophy concerns the social ontology that underpins the exercise of collective autonomy. My research in normative ethics concerns relational normativity and, more specifically, the ethics of advisory relationships.

Research Interests

Ancient Philosophy (especially Stoicism), Ethics, Moral Education

Biography

• Ph.D. (Philosophy), Queen's University
  • Dissertation: Theory and Training in Epictetus’ Program of Moral Education
  • Committee: Jon Miller (Chair), Brad Inwood, Bernard Kavanaugh, Daryn Lehoux, Elliot Paul
• M.A. (Philosophy), Carleton University
• B.A., Honours (Philosophy), Carleton University

Michael’s research focusses on ancient philosophy, specifically moral education in the Stoics. He is also interested in the Hellenistic conception of philosophy as a way of life, which is to be practiced in order to achieve virtue and happiness, and the conception of philosophy as a skill or craft. His work has appeared venues such as Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science and Journal of Ancient Philosophy.

Beyond philosophy, Michael is passionate about martial arts and competes regularly in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and wrestling. His academic work and its connection to his athletics are the focuses of a recent episode of CBC’s Ideas.

Publications

• “Digestion and Moral Progress in Epictetus”, Journal of Ancient Philosophy 13(1), 100-119, 2019.
• “Akrasia in Epictetus: A Comparison with Aristotle”, Apeiron 53(4), 397-417, 2020.
• “MMA as a path to stoic virtue”, in The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts, Routledge. Ed. Jason Holt and Marc Ramsay. 2021. Pg.122-133.
• “Athletic imagery as an educational tool in Epictetus”, The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport. 2021.

Personal Website

Research Interests

Philosophical Anthropology, Systematic Philosophy, Hermeneutical Phenomenology (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoueur), Metaphysics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind.

Biography

• B.A., Honours (Political Science & Philosophy), Laurentian University
• M.A. Philosophy, Queens University

My interests are united by my interest in developing a Structural-Systematic Account of what the Human being is, particularly in conversation with Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition. This project is concerned with what Humans are and what Humans do, and so takes interest in a broad variety of philosophical literature to approach these questions. In addition to this main project, I also work on specific issues within the history of phenomenology, as well as in contemporary metaphysics, metaethics and philosophies of mind and action.

Research Interests

Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Political Theory

Biography

• B.A., Honours (Philosophy), King’s University College
• M.A. (Theory and Criticism), Western University

Joshua’s work is rooted in the continental tradition, specifically the areas of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from King’s University College, and an M.A. in Theory and Criticism from Western University. His master’s thesis explored the theme of questioning in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. At Queen's, Joshua’s work focuses on the political thinker Hannah Arendt. Specifically, he is interested in piecing together an Arendtian account of the imagination as “the source of action,” exploring both its creative and destructive political implications.

Publications

“Hannah Arendt and the Free Press” (2021) in the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists series at Springer.

Research Interests

Environmental philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology, Feminist perspectives, Simone Weil

Biography

• B.A., Honours (Philosophy), King’s University College at Western University
• M.A., (Theory and Criticism), Western University

Kate’s research interests include environmental philosophy, philosophy of religion, phenomenology, feminist perspectives, and the work of Simone Weil. She was a visiting graduate student at Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity during the Lent 2020 term and she attended The School of Criticism and Theory Summer School at Cornell University in 2016. Kate's dissertation entitled Decreation for the Anthropocene places the philosophy of Simone Weil in conversation with our current environmental crisis.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• "Art and the Other: Aesthetic Intersubjectivity in Gadamer and Stein" Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy. 24.1 (2020): 74-91.
• "The Ethical Imperative of Reincarnation in the Timeaus and The Bhagavad Gita" Symposia: The Journal of Religion. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2019.

Book Chapters

• “Enacting Decreation,” in Rethinking Responses to Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Rosa Luxemburg, and Simone Weil, ed. Antonio Calcagno, forthcoming.
• "One Hand Clapping" in The Art of Anatheism: The Philosophy of Richard Kearney. Edited by Matthew Clemente and Richard Kearney. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.

Edited Collections

• Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion. Co-edited with Rachel Bath, Antonio Calcagno, and Steve G. Lofts. Rowman and Littlefield: London, 2017.

Other Writing 

• “The Pandemic of Force.” Review of Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way we Live, by Nicholas A. Christakis. Attention: The Life and Legacy of Simone Weil. Forthcoming. Online: http://attentionsw.org/
• “Attention in the Time of COVID-19.” Object Tales. Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Online. 2020.

Personal Website

Education

• BFA, University of Windsor
• MFA, Simon Fraser University
• MA, Western University
• PhD, Western University

About & Research Interests

I am an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation.

My research interests include Anishinaabe ontology, studio visual arts, phenomenology, critical theory, indigenous imaging practices, mnidoo interrelationality, epistemological sovereignty, and the debilitating impact of settler colonial logics. 

By tracing the fragile undulating threads of Anishinaabe ontologies found in everyday practices, I seeks to better understand the ways that Anishinaabe knowledge systems resist canonical academic values and textual dependent modes of address. I am particularly interested in the subtle, persistent challenge posed by the taken for granted orality of these thought systems. Such customary knowledges are often implicitly conveyed in gesture, speech, and everyday ways of being. Using various methodologies, including storytelling, textual analysis, and community-engaged research creation, I bring these ways of knowing into rigorous debate with contemporary discourses in continental philosophy and critical theory. This research takes up what I term Mnidoo-Worlding; along with Anishinaabe philosophies and cultural practices related to imaging, dreams, visions and their pathologization as hallucination in settler cultures.

Professional Affiliations

• Co-Director, Peripheral Visions Collaboratory, York and Queen’s University
• Research Associate, Revision Centre for Art and Social Justice, Guelph University
• Research Associate, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), a partnered research institute hosted at the University of Guelph
• Visiting Professor, Institute for Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, McGill U, Montreal QC, 2016-17
• Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts and First Nations Studies, Western University, London ON, 2004-09

Selected Awards and Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Fellowship (SSHRC) Department of Philosophy (Environmental Justice & Ethics), Michigan State University, 2018-20  (Supervisor: Kyle Powys Whyte)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (SSHRC Partnership Grant), International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), Department of Philosophy, McGill University, 2017-18
• Vanier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) 2010-13

Book Chapters

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii. “The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding.” Feminist Phenomenology Futures, Eds. Helen Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (Fall 2017).

Manning, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii. “The Becoming Human of Buffalo Bill.” Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/ Guattari and the Arts. Eds. Antonio Calcagno, Jim Vernon, and Steve Lofts. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 187-206, 2014.

Teaching

PHIL 812 – Philosophy of Culture: Worlding Possible Worlds: Futurity and Anishinaabe Ontology