Education

• BSc, LLM, Toronto
• LLB, Osgoode
• PhD, Sydney

Specializations

Philosophy of Law, Theories of Private Law, Moral Philosophy

Personal Webpage, Faculty of Law

About

Michael Pratt is an Associate Professor of Law, cross-appointed to Philosophy, at Queen’s University. He studied at the University of Toronto, where he earned his BSc and, following an LLB from Osgoode, his LLM. He later obtained a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Professor Pratt joined Queen’s Law in 2003, having previously taught at the University of Queensland and the University of Alberta. He served as Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research in 2015 and 2016. Professor Pratt teaches a range of subjects in private law, including contracts, torts, remedies, and advanced issues in contract law.

Professor Pratt pursues research along two fronts. The first straddles the disciplines of law and philosophy, and is devoted primarily to understanding the role of intention and consent in the creation and extinction of legal and moral obligations. He has written widely on the philosophical foundations of voluntary obligations, such as those that are generated by contracts and promises. Professor Pratt also researches and writes about the law of damages. The law governing the award of damages is understudied in Canada, despite its practical importance. In his research Professor Pratt draws on the fundamental principles of private law to clarify how damages ought to be assessed in tort and breach of contract cases.

For more information about Professor Pratt's research, visit his Faculty of Law Webpage.

Education

PhD, London School of Economics

Specializations / Research Interests

Margaret Moore has a wide range of interests in contemporary political philosophy. Her interests include territorial justice and obligations with respect to place (ethics of biodiversity), global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, democratic theory, rights, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, and selected theorists in the history of political thought. 

Margaret Moore would be interested in supervising students in the areas of territorial rights (including jurisdictional rights, resource rights, common pool resources, some elements of ethics of migration, ethics of biodiversity), global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, democratic theory, rights, nationalism, multiculturalism, and immigration.

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About

Margaret Moore is a professor in the Political Studies department, cross-appointed in Philosophy where she teaches in the Master’s in Political and Legal Theory program. She is the author of four books, Who Should Own Natural Resources? (Polity 2019), A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford 2015), Ethics of Nationalism (Oxford 2001) and Foundations of Liberalism (Oxford 1993). A Political Theory of Territory was the winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Best Book Prize in 2017 and was translated into Japanese in 2020. Professor Moore has edited several other books and journal special issues, and she has published articles in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Political Studies, and Ethics and International Affairs. 

Professor Moore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University. She is also an Associate Editor of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP). In 2018, she held the Olof Palme Research Professorship at the University of Stockholm (July-Dec) and the RSS Fellowship at the Australian National University (Feb-June).

Education

• BA, McGill
• MA, McGill
• PhD, UCLA

Specializations / Research Interests

Distributive justice; reciprocity and egalitarianism; classical liberalism and libertarianism; public reason, ‘political’ liberalism, toleration and compromise.

Andrew Lister would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of distributive justice, democratic theory, public reason and political liberalism.

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Before coming to Queen's, Andrew Lister taught at Concordia University and spent a year as FRQSC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal's Centre de recherche en éthique. He has been been a visitor at Oxford University's Center for the Study of Social Justice, and at the UCLouvain's Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale. He specializes in contemporary normative political theory, particularly related to democracy and distributive justice. His research has focused on two main themes:  public reason, or neutrality in political decision-making, and reciprocity, in relation to egalitarianism. He also has an ongoing interest in the work of John Rawls, and its relationships with other the work of others (for example, David Hume, Friedrich Hayek, and Frank Knight).

Selected Recent Publication

• "Contractualist alternatives to the veil of ignorance," Journal of Political Philosophy, 00, 1– 21, 2023.
• “Theology, Desert, and Egalitarianism,” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 84, No.3, 2022, pp. 1528-1538.
• “Reconsidering the Reciprocity Objection to Unconditional Basic Income,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2020.
• “Publicity, Reciprocity, and Incentives,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 67-82, 2020.
• "Wages, Talents, and Egalitarianism," Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 11, Issue 2, Autumn 2018.
• "The Difference Principle, Capitalism, and Property-Owning Democracy," Moral Philosophy and Politics.Vol. 5, No. 1, 2018, pp.151-72.
• “The Coherence of Public Reason,” The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Vol. 15, No.1, 2018, pp.64-84.
• “Public Reason and Reciprocity,” Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2017, pp. 155-172.
• "Markets, Desert, and Reciprocity," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2017, pp. 47-69.
• “Fact-Sensitivity and the Defining-Down Objection,” Res Publica, Vol. 23, 2017, pp.117-35.
• “Public Reason, Liberal Neutrality, and Marriage,” Beyond Same-Sex Marriage, ed. Ronald den Otter (Lexington Books, 2016), pp. 103-128.
• “Neutrality as a Basis for Minority Cultural Rights,” Les Ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum, (symposium on Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition), Vol. 10, Number 2, 2015, p. 147-56.
• "Social Contract," "Markets," "Congruence," "Lexical Priority / Priority of Liberty," "Reasonable Pluralism", in The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (David Reidy and Jon Mandle, ed.; Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• "Public Reason and Perfectionism: Comments on Quong's Liberalism Without Perfection," Filozofija i drustvo / Philosophy and Society, Vol. 25, No.1, pp. 12-34, 2014.
• Public Reason and Political Community, Bloomsbury (2013)
• “The Mirage of Social Justice: Hayek Against (and For) Rawls” Critical Review, Vol. 25, No. 3-4, pp. 409-444, Fall 2013.
• “Reciprocity, Relationships, and Distributive Justice” Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2013, pp. 70-94. 
• “The Classical Tilt of Justificatory Liberalism” European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2013, pp. 316-326.
• “Public Justification of What? Coercion vs. Decision as Competing Frames for the Basic Principle of Justificatory Liberalism" Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 25, No.4, 2011, pp. 349-67.
• “Justice as Fairness and Reciprocity” Analyze & Kritik, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2011, pp.93-112.
• “Liberal Foundations of Democratic Authority” Representation, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2010, pp.19-34.
• “Public Justification and the Limits of State Action” Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2010, pp. 151-176.

Education

• BA, Queen's
• MA, Oxford
• MPhil, Oxford
• DPhil, Oxford

Specializations

Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy, Constitutional Theory, Human Rights

Personal Webpage, Faculty of Law Personal Webpage, Oxford Law

About

Les Green was the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's University in Canada. As of 2022, he has retired from both positions.

After beginning his teaching career as a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Professor Green moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He has also been a visiting professor at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Green writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy. He serves on the board of several journals and is co-editor of the annual Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law and of the book series Oxford Legal Philosophy.

For a list of Professor Green's publications, visit his personal webpage at Oxford Law.

Education

• B.A., McMaster
• M.A., McMaster
• Ph.D., Bristol

Specializations

Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Practical Ethics, Ethics

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About

Colin Farrelly is a political theorist with research and teaching interests in political philosophy and bioethics. He has held academic appointments in philosophy, political science and public policy at the University of Aberdeen, Birmingham University, Manchester University, Oxford University, Waterloo University and UCLA. The author and editor of 6 books and approximately 50 journal articles, Colin’s publications include articles in journals in political science, philosophy, feminism, law, science and medicine. He has published on a diverse array of topics, including the health challenges posed by population aging, the creation and evolution of patriarchy, virtue ethics, virtue epistemology, virtue jurisprudence, play and politics, freedom of expression, judicial review, non-ideal theory, gene patents, deliberative democracy, nanotechnology, sex selection, toleration, a citizen’s basic income, enhancing soldiers and economic incentives. Colin’s next major research project explores the idea of the “playful” society as a realistic utopia and draws on empirical insights from evolutionary biology and positive psychology. 

For more information about Colin's research and a list of his books and other publications, visit his personal website.

Education

• BAH, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• MSc, University of Edinburgh (in progress)
• PhD, University of Toronto

Specializations

Bioethics, Political Philosophy, Environmental Ethics

About

Dr. Cline is a philosopher with extensive work experience in the healthcare sector. After completing hospital internships in the Toronto and Hamilton areas, she worked as the clinical ethicist at Kingston General Hospital for 7 years, providing ethics consultation and continuing education to patients, families and healthcare professionals working in a wide variety of roles.  Dr. Cline currently teaches medical students at Queen’s. She has also held numerous curriculum leadership roles in the Undergraduate Medicine Program. Prior to coming to Queen’s, Dr. Cline taught philosophy at the University of Toronto where she received awards and commendations for her teaching in bioethics, environmental ethics and English as a second language. She is also a former Director of U of T’s Teaching Assistant Training Program in their Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Education

• B.Sc., York, UK
• M.A., Thames Polytechnic, UK
• M.Phil, North Staffordshire Polytechnic, UK
• Ph.D., Stirling, UK

Specializations

Environmental Ethics, Gadamer, Social Theory and Hermeneutics

Personal Webpage, Environmental Studies

About

For a description of my current research and a list of my publications, see my Environmental Studies Webpage.

Education

• B.A., M.A. (Philosophy), Ottawa
• M.A., Ph.D. (Philosophy), UCLA
• M.A., C.Phil. (Linguistics), UCLA

Specializations

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Cognition, Logic, Semantics, Linguistic Theory, Legal Philosophy, Feminism

About

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, cross-appointed with the Linguistics Program, with degrees from the University of Ottawa (BA, MA), and University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD in Philosophy; MA, CPhil in Linguistics). I did post-doctoral work at the  Center for Study of Language and Information of Stanford University in California and at the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (now Institut Jean Nicod) in Paris. I have taught philosophy as a Visiting Professor at UCLA and at the University of Barcelona, where I am a research affiliate of LOGOS: Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group. I was elected President of the Canadian Philosophical Association in 2012. 

I work generally in the areas of philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of cognition, related issues in metaphysics & epistemology, natural language semantics, philosophy of linguistics and foundational issues in theoretical linguistics, and lately in legal philosophy and feminism (especially of the applied variety). Among my writings is a meticulous scrutiny of what exactly is wrong with masculine language serving double-duty as sex-neutral language; this paper won a Best Paper award from the American Philosophical Association. I acted as expert witness for two provincial Courts and the Supreme Court of Canada, defending gay couples seeking the right to marry against the claim that homosexual marriage is rendered logically impossible by the semantics of English. I have acted as expert witness on racial vs racist language in a defamation trial. I am highly concerned and outspoken about the treatment of women in Philosophy. I love teaching logic and am forever working on what I aim to be a user-friendly-yet-philosophically-sophisticated logic textbook. I am also at work on a philosophical novel about my experience at Queen’s University entitled: “My Brilliant Career as a Witch”.

Education

• B.A. Hons, University of Waterloo
• M.A., University of Toronto
• Ph.D., University of Toronto

Specializations

Ancient Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science

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Monographs

• Ancient Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
• Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)
• What Did the Romans Know? (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012)
• Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Edited Collections / Books

• Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science, co-editor with A. D. Morrison and A. Sharrock (Oxford, 2013)
• Encyclopedia of Ancient History, subject editor, ancient science; R. Bagnall et al., general eds. (Wiley, 2012)

Selected Journal Articles

• ‘Why Doesn’t My Baby Look Like Me? Likeness and Likelihood in Ancient Theories of Reproduction,’ in V. Wohl, ed., Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought (Cambridge, 2014), p. 208-229
• ‘Reflectance Transformation Imaging of a Byzantine Portable Sundial,’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187 (2013) p. 221-229 [with George Bevan and Richard Talbert]
• ‘Seeing and Unseeing, Seen and Unseen,’ in D. Lehoux, A. D. Morrison, and A. Sharrock, eds., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (Oxford, 2013) p. 131-152
• ‘Ancient Science in a Digital Age,’ ISIS, 104 (2013) p. 111-118
• ‘A Revolution of its Own,’ (essay review of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 50th Anniversary ed.), Science, 338 (16 Nov. 2012), p. 885-6 [with Jay Foster]
• ‘Myth and Explanation in Manilius,’ in K. Volk and S. Green, eds., Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011) p. 45-56
• ‘Natural Knowledge in Classical Antiquity,’ in P. Harrison, R. Numbers, and M. Shank, eds., Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011) p. 37-58
• 'Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye.' Isis ,98 (2007) p. 447-467. (Winner of the History of Science Society's 2008 Price/Webster prize)
• 'Laws of Nature and Natural Laws.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2006) p. 527-549
• 'Tomorrow's News Today: Astrology, Fate, and the Ways Out.' Representations, 95 (2006) p. 105-122
• 'Tropes, Facts, and Empiricism.' Perspectives on Science, 11 (2003) p. 326-345
• 'Observation and Prediction in Ancient Astrology.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) p. 227-246
• 'The Historicity Question in Mesopotamian Divination.' In J.M. Steele and A. Imhausen, eds., Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 297 (Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2002) p. 209-222
• 'All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory.' Apeiron ,32 (1999) p. 1-36

Education

• B.Sc., University of Toronto
• M.A., New York University
• Ph.D., University of Toronto

Specializations / Research Interests 

Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

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About

Joshua Mozersky is professor of philosophy at Queen’s University. His primary areas of research and teaching are the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. He was formerly Canada Research Chair in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science. He served as Head of Philosophy from 2011-2017.

Monographs

• Time, Language, and Ontology: The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective (Oxford, 2015)

Selected Journal Articles

• ‘Nominalism, Contingency, and Natural Structure’, Synthese (2019), online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02401-8
• ‘Physics and the Manifest Image of Time’, Metascience 27(3) (2018): 517-521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0339-6
• ‘A Tenseless Account of the Presence of Experience’, Philosophical Studies 129 (2006): 441-476.
• ‘Smith on Times and Tokens’, Synthese 129 (2001): 405-411.
• ‘Tense and Temporal Semantics’, Synthese 124 (2000): 247-269.
• ‘Time, Tense and Special Relativity’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (2000): 221-236.

Selected Chapters in Books

• 'Temporal Predicates and the Passage of Time’, in L. Nathan Oaklander (ed.), Debates in the Metaphysics of Time and Related Topics. Continuum Publishers (2014): 109-127.
• ‘The B-Theory in the 20th Century’, in Heather Dyke and Adrian Bardon (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, Wiley-Blackwell (2013): 167-182.
• ‘McTaggart’s Argument Against the Reality of Time’, in Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone (eds.) Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell (2011): 64-67.
• ‘Presentism’, in Craig Callender (ed.) The Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011): 122-144.

Selected Reviews

• ‘Time, Inside and Out’ (review of Cosmological and Psychological Time, edited by Yuval Dolev and Michael Roubach), Metascience 26 (2017):123-126.
• Review of McTaggart’s Paradox by R. D. Ingthorsson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (December 11, 2016)
• ‘How Time Flies: Shedding Light on the Moving Spotlight’ (review of Objective Becoming, by Bradford Skow), Metascience 25 (2016): 143-146.

Work in Progress

• More Variables Than Equations (in preparation)
• Mind-Independence: The Nature of Structure and the Structure of Nature (in preparation)
• ‘Temporal Modelling and Ontological Hindsight Bias’ (forthcoming)
• ‘Evaluating the Moving Spotlight’ (in preparation)
• ‘Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy’ (in preparation)

Media

• Time, Language, and Ontology: The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective, New Books in Philosophy (audio interview), May, 2015.
• Time, Language, Ontology, Interview by Richard Marshall, 3 a.m. Magazine, September, 2015.

Teaching

Courses regularly taught: Epistemology and Metaphysics; Philosophy of Physics; Philosophy of Mathematics; Philosophy of Science