Education

• B.A., Oxford

Specializations / Research Interests

Metaphysics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Marx

Personal Website

About

Henry Laycock sometimes teaches courses on Aristotle, Marx, the philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is preoccupied with issues at the intersection of semantics and metaphysics. His current research is focused on the nature of non-singularity and the semantics of non-count nouns, in relationship to the notion of an 'ideal language' or 'canonical notation'. He was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and is a Life Member of that College. His recent book Words without Objects is published by the Clarendon Press of Oxford University. His articles have appeared in edited books, and in journals including Synthese, Philosophy, Principia, the Philosophical Review, Humana Mente, Dialogue, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and the Journal of Ethics, as well as in the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Recent Media

Into the Coast, August 2018

Education

• B.A., Berkeley
• M.A., Berkeley
• Ph.D., Queen's

Specializations / Research Interests

Epistemology, Descartes, Foucault, Rational Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide 

About

C. G. Prado is professor emeritus of philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Born in Guatemala, C. G. Prado grew up in San Francisco, California. His interests and expertise in philosophy are evident in the titles of his published books.

Monographs

• Coping with Choices to Die, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Starting with Descartes, London and New York: Continuum Books, 2009.
• Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Searle and Foucault on Truth, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• The Best Laid Plans: Health Care’s Problems and Prospects, with Lawrie McFarlane, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
• Starting With Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy, Second Edition, Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 2000.
• Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death, with S. J. Taylor, Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books (Prometheus Press), 1999.
• The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, Second Edition, Westport and London: Greenwood and Praeger Presses, 1998.
• Starting With Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy, Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 1995.
• Descartes and Foucault: A Contrastive Introduction to Philosophy, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1992 (Reprinted 1997).
• The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, Westport and New York: Greenwood Group, 1990.
• The Limits of Pragmatism, Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1987 (Reprinted 1989).
• Rethinking How We Age: A New View of the Aging Mind, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Illusions of Faith: A Critique of Noncredal Religion, Dubuque and Toronto: Kendall/Hunt, 1980.

Edited Collections

• How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior, C. G. Prado, editor, Santa Barbara and Denver: Praeger Press, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, 2019.
• America's Post-Truth Phenomenon: When Feelings and Opinions Trump Facts and Evidence, editor, Santa Barbara and Denver: Praeger Press, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC., 2018.
• Social Media and Your Brain: How Web-Based Communication Is Changing How We Think and Express Ourselves, editor, Santa Barbara and Denver: Praeger Press, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC., 2017.
• Foucault’s Legacy, editor, London and New York: Continuum Books, 2009.
• A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy, editor, Amherst, New York: Humanity Books (Prometheus), 2003.
• Assisted Suicide: Canadian Perspectives, editor, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2000.

Education

• B.A., Queen’s
• B.Phil., Oxford
• D.Phil., Oxford

Research Interests

My research examines questions in non-consequentialist ethical theory. I am especially interested in exploring the strengths and pitfalls of Scanlon’s contractualism as a systematic expression of a non-consequentialist approach to the foundations of interpersonal obligations. I also have broad interests in moral and political philosophy; in the past few years I have taught seminars on practical reasoning, moral responsibility, ethics and future generations, contractualism, and Rawls’s A Theory of Justice.

Personal Website

Monographs

• Consensualism in Principle (Routledge, 2001)

Recent Edited Collections

• Ethics and Future Generations (Routledge, 2017)
• Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (co-edited with Samuel Freeman and R. Jay Wallace) (OUP, 2011)

Recent Journal Articles

• “Rights, Wrongs, and the Snares of Non-Identity” Law, Ethics and Philosophy 7 2019
• “Risking Future Generations” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 2018
• “Risking and Wronging” Philosophy and Public Affairs 43:1 2015

Recent Chapters in Books

• “Contractualism, Interpersonal and Intergenerational” Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (OUP, 2021)
• “Future Generations” Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice (OUP, 2018)

Recent Reviews

• Review of R. Jay Wallace, The Moral Nexus (Princeton, 2019) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

For more information about Professor Kumar's research and a complete list of his publications, see his personal website.

Education

• BCL, LLB, McGill
• DPhil, Oxford

Specializations / Research Interests

Personal Webpage, Faculty of Law

About

Grégoire Webber, M.S.M., is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen’s Law and is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy. His research is in the areas of human rights, public law, and philosophy of law.

Professor Webber is a graduate of McGill University with bachelors of civil law and common law and of the University of Oxford with a doctorate in law, where he studied as a Trudeau scholar. He clerked for Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada and, as a student, for Justice André Rochon of the Quebec Court of Appeal. 

Professor Webber previously worked as a senior policy advisor with the Privy Council Office and as Legal Affairs Advisor to the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, P.C., Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Justice in the Trudeau ministry. He is currently legal agent of the Department of Justice (Canada), providing legal advice on key files. He has contributed to public debates in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, and IRPP's Policy Options.

Professor Webber is joint founder and Executive Director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, which provides free advocacy advice to counsel appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada. In relation to his role in co-founding the Institute, he was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada for improving "access to justice for all Canadians" and for increasing "the effectiveness and the quality of advocacy before the Court".

Professor Webber is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Villey Fellow at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and was previously a visitor at the University of Oxford. He is joint convenor of the Queen's Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Scientists, and Artists.

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

Education

• BAH, Toronto
• MA, Toronto
• JD, Toronto
• LLM, NYU
• PhD, NYU

Specializations / Research Interests

Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Meta-Ethics

Personal Webpage, Faculty of Law

About

Jean Thomas is Assistant Professor at Queen’s Law. She is joint convenor of the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Master of Arts in English Literature and a Juris Doctor, as well as of New York University, with a Master of Laws and a doctorate in law. Prior to joining Queen’s, Professor Thomas was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s McCoy Center for Ethics in Society and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.

For information about Professor Thomas' research, see her Faculty of Law Webpage.

Education

• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Specializations

Number Theory, Indian Philosophy, Mathematical Logic

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About

My research focuses on number theory and allied areas. I am mainly interested in the theory of zeta and L-functions and the questions related to the distribution of prime numbers. I have also worked in related areas such as graph theory and combinatorics. For more about my research, visit my personal website.

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.

Personal Webpage, Political Studies

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.

Personal Website Personal Webpage, Political Studies

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.