Education

• PhD, Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics

Specializations 

Bioethics, Practical Ethics

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About

Udo Schüklenk is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics, and Honorary Professor at both Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg (since 2008) and Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou (since 2017).

Schüklenk is the Editor in Chief of Bioethics (since 1997) and the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of Developing World Bioethics (since 2000). He has written, edited or co-edited ten books and authored or co-authored some 100+ publications in peer reviewed journals and anthologies.

Monographs

• (with Ruth F. Chadwick) This is Bioethics. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
• (with Russell Blackford) 50 Great Myths About Atheism. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford 2013.
• Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness. Haworth: New York and London, 1998.

In Progress 

• (with A. Giubilini, F. Minerva, J. Savulescu) Conscientious Objection in Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Edited Collections / Books

• (with Peter Singer) Bioethics: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. 4th edition, 2021.
• (with Russell Blackford) 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, 2009. Polish and Korean editions 2011. Spanish edition 2013. Arabic edition 2019. Polish edition 2014.
• (with Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman, and Peter Singer) The Bioethics Reader. Blackwell: Oxford, 2007.
• (with Patricia Illingworth, Jillian C Cohen) The Power of Pills: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing and Pricing. Pluto Press: London, 2006.
• (with Debora Diniz, Dirce Guilhem) Ética na Pesquisa. University of Brazil Press: Brasilia, 2005. 2nd extended edition as: Etica em Pesquisa. University of Brazil Press: Brasilia, 2008.
• AIDS: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues. International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law. Dartmouth: Aldershot, 2001.

Journal Articles

• “Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from Canada” (with Jocelyn Downie). Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021.
• “Religion at Work in Bioethics and Biopolicy: Christian Bioethicists, Secular Language, Suspicious Orthodoxy” (with Russell Blackford). The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2021; 46/2: 169-187.
• "The ‘Ethical’ COVID-19 Vaccine is the One that Preserves Lives: Religious and Moral Beliefs on the COVID-19 Vaccine" (with A. Giubilini, F. Minerva, and J. Savulescu). Public Health Ethics 2021.
• “Ethics of genetic research on same-sex sexual behaviour” (with J Savulescu, B.D. Earp). Nature Human Behaviour 2021; 5:1123-1124.
• "What health care professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE)". Journal of Medical Ethics 2020; 46: 432-435.
• "Conscience-based refusal of patient care in medicine: A consequentialist analysis". Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2019; 40: 523-538.
• "Non-informed consent can be ethically defensible". The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2019; 108: 1612-1613.
• "Conscientious objection and compromising the patient: A response to Hughes" (with J Savulescu). Bioethics 2018: 32: 473-476.
• "Are Concerns About Irremediableness, Vulnerability, or Competence Sufficient to Justify Excluding All Psychiatric Patients from Medical Aid in Dying?" (with R Rooney, S van de Vathorst). Health Care Analysis 26: 326-343.
• "‘For their own good’: a response to popular arguments against permitting medical assistance in dying where mental illness is the sole underlying condition" (with J Dembo and J Reggler). Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2018: 63: 451-456.
• "Conscientious objection in medicine: accommodation versus professionalism and the public good". British Medical Bulletin 2018; 126: 47-56.
• "The Moral Case for Granting Catastrophically Ill Patients Access to Unregistered Medical Interventions" (with R Smalling). Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2017; 45: 382-391.
• "Against the accommodation of subject healthcare provider beliefs in medicine: counteracting supporters of conscientious objector accommodation arguments" (with R Smalling). Journal of Medical Ethics 2016.
• "Doctors Have No Right to Refuse Medical Aid in Dying, Abortion or Contraception" (with J Savulescu). Bioethics 2017;31: 162-170.
• "Why Medical Professionals Have No Moral Claim to Conscientious Objection Accommodation in Liberal Democracies" (with RD Smalling). Journal of Medical Ethics 2016.
• "Accommodating Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Private Ideological Convictions Must Not Trump Professional Obligations". Journal of Clinical Ethics 2016; 27(3): 227-232.
• "Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder and assisted dying: response to comments" (with S van de Vathorst). Journal of Medical Ethics 2015; 41: 589-91.
• "Assisted Dying and Treatment-Resistant Depression" (with S van de Vathorst). Journal of Medical Ethics 2015; 41: 577-583.
• "What Are the Ethical Issues in Treating a Patient With Bilateral Leg Gangrene Incapable of Consenting to Amputation Secondary to Psychiatric Illness?" (with M.A. Taylor, D. McKay, M. Eid, D. Pichora). Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 2015; 473: 3998-4003.
• "Physicians Can Justifiably Euthanize Severely Impaired Neonates". Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2015; 149: 535-537.
• "Assisted Dying in Canada". Health Papers 2014; 14(1): 38-43.
• "Public Health Ethics and Obesity Prevention – The Trouble with Data and Ethics" (with Erik Yuan Zhang). Monash Bioethics Review 2014; 32: 121-140.
• "And there we go again: the ethics of placebo controlled RCT in cases of catastrophic illness". Journal of Medical Ethics 2013.
• "In Defence of Academic Freedom: Bioethics Journals Under Siege". Journal of Medical Ethics 2013; 39: 303-309.
• "Queer Patients and the Health Care Professional – Regulatory Arrangements Matter" (with Ricardo Smalling). Journal of Medical Humanities. 2013; 34(2): 93-100. 
• "End-of-Life Decision-Making in Canada: The Report by the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End-of-Life Decision-Making" (with Johannes van Delden, Jocelyn Downie, Sheila McLean, Ross Upshur, Daniel Weinstock). Bioethics 2011; 25 (S1): E1-73.
• "AIDS: The Time for Changes in Law and Policy is Now" (with Sean Philpott). International Journal of Law in Context 2011; 7: 305-317.
• "Publishing bioethics and Bioethics: Reflections on academic publishing by a journal editor". Bioethics 2010; 25: 57-61.
• "Two Models in Global Health Ethics". Public Health Ethics 2009; 2: 276-284.
• "Access to Phase I Drugs in Terminal Illness: A Review of the Ethical Arguments" (with Chris Lowry). British Medical Bulletin 2009; 89: 7-22.
• "Ethical issues in international research and multicentre studies" (with D Hare). Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health 2008.
• "Questões éticas na pesquisa internacional e em estudos multicêntricos" (with D Hare). In Revista Electronica de Comunicacao Informacao, Inovacao em Saude 2008.
• "Review Article: Should We Use the Criminal Law to Punish HIV Transmission?". In International Journal of Law in Context 2008; 4: 277-284.
• "Rethinking Mandatory HIV Testing During Pregnancy in High HIV-prevalence Regions: Ethical and Policy Issues" (with A Kleinsmidt). American Journal of Public Health 2007; 97(7): 1179-1183.
• "Confronting an Influenza Pandemic: Ethical and Scientific Issues" (with K Gartland). Biochemical Society Transactions 2006; 34.
• "North-South Benefit Sharing Arrangements in Bioprospecting & Genetic Research: A Critical Ethical and Legal Analysis (with A Kleinsmidt). Developing World Bioethics 2006; 6: 122-134.
• "Sharing the Benefits of Genetic Resources: Ensuring Equity for Developing Countries"  (with D Schroeder, F Alvarez-Castillo, D Feinholz, A Kleinsmidt, M Ladikas, C Lásen Diaz. BMJ 2005; 331: 1351-1352.
• "Special Issues (in Ethics Review)" (with B Schneider). Developing World Bioethics 2005; 5(1): 92-108.
• "Introduction to Research Ethics". Developing World Bioethics 2005; 5(1): 1-13.
• "The Standard of Care Debate: Against the Myth of an ‘International Consensus Opinion’". Journal of Medical Ethics 2004; 30: 194-197.
• "Professional Responsibilities of Biomedical Scientists in Public Discourse". Journal of Medical Ethics 2004; 30: 53-60.
• "AIDS: Bioethics and Public Policy". New Review of Bioethics 2003; 1(1): 127-144.
• "Intellectual Property Rights, Compulsory Licensing and the TRIPS Agreement: Some Ethical Issues". Monash Bioethics Review 2003; 22(2):63-68.
• "Ethics, Politics and Embryo Stem Cell Research in South Africa" (with J Lott). South African Medical Journal 2002; 92: 782-786.
• "Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives" (with R Ashcroft). Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2002; 27(2): 179-195.
• "Ethical Issues in Continuing Professional Development". South African Medical Journal 2001; 91: 955-957.
• "Teaching Bioethics: The Distribution of Medical Resources, Withholding Medical Treatment, Drug Trials, Advance Directives, Euthanasia and other ethical issues - The Thandi Case (2)" (with T Jenkins, and D Moellendorf). Developing World Bioethics 2001; 1: 163-174.
• "Clinical Standards of Care and the Declaration of Helsinki: The battle is over, or is it?". Monash Bioethics Review 2001; 20(1): 63-66.
• "Teaching Bioethics: Privacy. Abortion, Resource Allocation and other Ethical Issues – The Thandi Case (1)" (with T Jenkins and D Moellendorf). In: Developing World Bioethics 2001; 1: 69-82.
• "Declaration of Helsinki revisions". Issues in Medical Ethics 2001; 9(1): 29.
• "Pitanja etike i politike u medunarodnim klinickim istrazivanjima (Ethical and Policy Issues in International Clinical Research)" (with R Ashcroft). Vladavina Prava (Croatian journal - Rule of Law: Journal for Theory and Practice of the Law) 2000; 4(5): 159-172.
• "Protecting the Vulnerable: Testing Times for Clinical Research Ethics". Social Science and Medicine. 2000; 51: 969-977.
• "The ethics of reproductive and therapeutic cloning (research)" (with R Ashcroft). Monash Bioethics Review 2000; 19(2): 34-45.
• "International Research Ethics" (with R Ashcroft). Bioethics 2000; 14: 158-172. *This article is the most frequently cited article in the Journal’s history.
• "The Human Genome Diversity Project: Ethical Concerns". Politics and Life Sciences 1999; 18: 332-334.
• "Some Ethical Issues in Preventive Vaccine Research". Bioetica Clinica / Archives of Clinical Bioethics 1999; 2(1): (suppl.) 19-22.
• "International Research Ethics Guidelines Under Threat". Issues in Medical Ethics 1999; 7(3):97-98.
• "Klonen: gegen das schlechte Image einer guten Sache (Cloning: against the bad image of a good idea)". der blaue reiter  (peer reviewed German language philosophy journal with large circulation) 1999; August: 99-103.
• "International research ethics guidelines to be revised - in nearly complete secrecy". Monash Bioethics Review 1999; 18(3): (suppl) 18-21.
• "Drug Testing and Approval in Cases of People with Catastrophic Illness: Ethical Issues". Clinical Research and Regulatory Affairs 1998; 15(3&4): 145-157.
• "Unethical Perinatal HIV Transmission Trials Establish Bad Precedent". Bioethics 1998; 12: 311-318.
• "Biomedical Research on Sexual Orientation - Researchers Taking Our Chances in Homophobic Societies" (with RA Brookey). Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association 1998; 2: 79-84
• "The Design of Research Clinical Trials with Terminally Ill Patients: Ethical Issues". Journal International de Bioethique 1997; 8: 127-132.
• "The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation" (with E Stein, W Byne & J Kerin). Hastings Center Report 1997; 27(4): 6-13.
• "Ethics, Research, and the Public Understanding of Science". Science and Public Affairs - Journal of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1997; Summer: 46-49.
• "Ethische Probleme des Designs und der Zugangsvoraussetzungen klinischer AIDS-Versuchsreihen". Ethik in der Medizin 1997; 9: 15-30.
• "AIDS and the lab rats". Science and Public Affairs - Journal of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1996; Winter: 54-57.
• "Should Research into the Causes of Homosexuality be done?" (with M Ristow). Journal of Homosexuality 1996; 31(3): 5-30.
• "Patient Access to Experimental Drugs and AIDS Clinical Trial Designs: Ethical Issues" (with C Hogan). Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1996; 5(3): 400- 409.
• "Women and AIDS: The Ethics of Exaggerated Harm" (With MA Sushinsky and D Mertz). Bioethics 1996; 10: 93-113.
• "The Bioethics Tabloids: How professional ethicists have fallen for the myth of tertiary transmitted heterosexual AIDS" (with D Mertz and J Richters). Health Care Analysis 1995; 3:27-36.
• "Sollten Forschungen nach den Ursachen der Homosexualität unternommen werden?"(with M Ristow).  Ethik in der Medizin 1995; 7(2): 71-86.
• "The ethics of clinical AIDS vaccine trials in developing countries: a critical commentary". Monash Bioethics Review 1994; 13(4): 12-15 (suppl.).
• "Against manipulative campaigns by 'community based' AIDS organisations". Health Care Analysis 1994; 2(3): 253-261.
• "Bioethik in Melbourne". Information Philosophie 1993; 21(1): 58-60.
• "Zur Diskussion um Ökosteuern (on eco-taxes)". In: UVP-report 1989; 3(4): 80-83.
• "Schopenhauer und die Schwulen (Schopenhauer on Homosexuality)". Widerspruch - Münchner Zeitschrift für Philosophie 1989; 16(17): 100-116.
• "Umweltethik, Umweltpolitik und praktische Naturphilosophie - ein Thema für die Lobby der Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung? (environmental ethics, environmental policy and practical philosophy of nature: a relevant issue for the environmental impact assessment lobby?)". UVP-report (information on environmental impact assessment) 1988; 2(2): 8-10.

Chapters in Books

• “Moral Recognition and the Limits of Impartialist Ethics: On Androids, Sentience, and Personhood”, in (Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, Julian Savulescu eds.), Rethinking Moral Status. Oxford University Press, 2021.
• “Principlist Pandemics: On Fraud Ethical Guidelines and the Importance of Transparency” (wth J Lewis) in (Michael Boylan ed.), Ethical Public Health Policy Within Pandemics. Springer Nature, 2022. (International Library of Bioethics).
• "What health care professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE)". Reprinted from Journal of Medical Ethics in (U Schuklenk, P Singer and H Kuhse, eds.) Bioethics: An Anthology 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell 2021.
• "What health care professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE)". Reprinted from Journal of Medical Ethics in: MC Schwartz. (ed.) The Ethics of Pandemics. Broadview 2020.
• "Issues in Global Health Ethics. In: W Teays, AD Renteln (eds)". Global Bioethics and Human Rights. Rowman and Littlefield 2020.
• "HIV/AIDS". (with A Viens). In: H Lafollette (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford 2019.
• "Why Medical Professionals Have No Moral Claim to Conscientious Objection Accommodation in Liberal Democracies" (with RD Smalling). Reprinted from Journal of Medical Ethics 2016 in J Fisher and L Burkholder (eds). Biomedical ethics: A Canadian Focus (3rd ed). Oxford University Press, 2018.
• "Why conscientious objection accommodation in medicine is indefensible" (with B Zolf). In D Boonin (ed). The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan 2018: 60-621.
• "Catastrophically ill children, access to unregistered medical interventions and trial recruitment needs: an ethical analysis". (with T Hartvigsson). In E Kodish, R Nelson (eds), Ethics and research with children: a case-based approach. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press 2018.
• "Utilitarianism". In B. Jennings (ed). Encyclopedia of Bioethics (4th ed.) – Vol. 6 3121-3128. Macmillan: San Francisco: 2014.
• "Research Ethics and Clinical Trials" (with Ricardo Smalling). In H Widdows, D Moellendorf (eds) Handbook of Global Ethics. Routledge: London 2014: 307-320.
• "Peter Singer" (with C Lowry). G Oppy, N Trakakis (eds). A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand – 2nd edition. Monash ePress: Melbourne 2014: 512-516.
• "Issues in Global Health Ethics" (with D Hare). In W. Teays, J-S Gordon and AD Renteln (eds.) Global Bioethics and Human Rights. Rowman and Littlefield 2014: 300-317.
• "Homosexuality and Philosophy" (w J Davies). In F Mildenberger, J Evans, R Lautmann and J Pastotter (eds). Was ist Homosexualitaet? Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven. Hamburg: Maennerschwarm: 2014: 319-344.
• "Udo Schuklenk". In Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis (ed) Philosophy of Medicine: 5 Questions. Springer: Berlin 2011.
• "AIDS" (with A Viens). In H Lafollette (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford 2012.
• "International Research Ethics" (with S Philpott). In H Lafollette (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford 2012.
• "Global Health Ethics" (with C Cline). In H Lafollette (ed.). International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford 2012.
• "Questoes eticas na pesquisa internacional e em estudos multicentricos" (with D Hare). In D Diniz, A Sugai, D Guilhem, F Squinca (eds). Etica em Pesquisa: Temas Globais. Letras Livres/University of Brazil Press: Brasilia: 187-218.
• "Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress and God". In R Blackford, U Schuklenk (eds.) 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford 2009.
• "Public Policy in a Just Society" (with C Lowry). In J Gordon-Stewart (ed), Morality and Politics: Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'. Rowman & Littlefield 2009: 161-179.
• "Peter Singer" (with C Lowry). In G Oppy, S Gardner (eds). A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. Monash ePress: Melbourne 2009: 497-501.
• "AIDS as a Global Health Emergency". In H Kuhse, P Singer (eds). Companion to Bioethics - 2nd edition. Blackwell: Oxford 2009: 441-454.
• "Developing World Challenges" (with M Kottow and P Sy). In H Kuhse, P Singer (eds). Companion to Bioethics - 2nd edition. Blackwell: Oxford 2009: 404-416.
• "Global Health Responsibilities" (with C Lowry). In H Kuhse, P Singer (eds). Companion to Bioethics - 2nd edition. Blackwell: Oxford 2009: 393-403.
• "International Research Ethics" (with R Ashcroft). In R Chadwick, H Kuhse, W Landman, U Schuklenk, P Singer (eds). The Bioethics Reader. Blackwell: Oxford 2007: 243-257. Reprinted from Bioethics 2000; 14: 158-172.
• "Bioethics in the developing world". In A Iltis (ed). Bioethics and Law. Routledge: London 2007: 274-291.
• "Health and the Developing World" (with P Sy). In C Wolf, J Ryberg, T Petersen (eds). New Waves in Applied Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan 2007.
• "Ethical Obligations of Trial Sponsors in Clinical Research" (with J Gallagher). In RE Ashcroft, A Dawson, H Draper, J McMillan (eds). Principles of Health Care Ethics. Wiley: Chichester 2007.
• "Affordable Access to Essential Drugs in Developing Countries: Conflicts Between Ethical and Economic Imperatives" (with R Ashcroft). In B Bennett (ed) Health, Rights and Globalisation. Ashgate: Aldershot 2006: 123-139. Reprinted from Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2002; 27: 179-195.
• "Bioethics in the Developing World". In SH Johnson, A Iltis (eds). Law and Bioethics. Routledge: London 2006: 274-291.
• "Globalisation and Health: A Developing World Perspective on Ethical and Policy Issues" (with B Bello). In B Bennett and GF Tomossy (eds). Globalisation and Health. Springer: Dordrecht 2006: 13-25.
• "Tema Especiais em Eticana Pesquisa" (with B Schneider). In D Diniz, D Guilhem and U Schuklenk (eds). Etica na Pesquisa. Letras Livres: Brasilia 2005: 156-179. Translated and reprinted from Developing World Bioethics 2005; 5(3).
• "Introducao a Etica em Pesquisa". In D Diniz, D Guilhem and U Schuklenk (eds). Etica na Pesquisa. Letras Livres: Brasilia 2005: 30-45. Translated and reprinted from Developing World Bioethics 2005; 5(3).
• "The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation"(with E Stein, J Kerin & W Byne). In M Hobbs and C Rice (eds). Gender and women’s studies in Canada: Critical terrain. Women’s Press: Toronto, 2003: 199-204. Reprinted from Hastings Center Report 1997; 27(4): 6-13).
• "Affordable Access to Essential Drugs in Developing Countries: Conflicts Between Ethical and Economic Imperatives". In Av Niekerk, LM Kopelman (eds). Ethics and AIDS in Africa. Cape Town: David Philip/New Africa Books, 2005: 127-140. Reprinted from Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2002; 27: 179-195.
• "Benefit Sharing in International Health Research – A Critical Look at Four Developing Countries’ Approaches". In GF Tomossy, DW Weisstub and T Campbell (eds), Medicine and Industry: Changing Paradigms in Health Law, Policy and Ethics. Oxford University Press 2005.
• "Bioethics and Public Policy" (with J Lott). In F Thiele (ed). Bioethics in a Small World. Springer Publ: Berlin 2004: 129-138.
• "Professional Responsibilities of Biomedical Scientists in Public Discourse". In A Zichichi (ed)., International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies: 30th session. World Scientific Publishing: Singapore 2004. Reprinted from Journal of Medical Ethics 2004; 30: 53-60.
• "International Research Ethics" (with R Ashcroft). In GF Tomossy and DW Weisstub (eds). Human Experimentation and Research – International Library of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Ashgate: Aldershot 2003. Reprinted from Bioethics 2000; 14: 158-172.
• "The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation"(with E Stein, J Kerin & W Byne). In R Chadwick and D Schroeder (eds.), Applied Ethics, vol 3. Routledge: London 2002. Reprinted from Hastings Center Report 1997; 27(4): 6-13) pp. 319-333.
• "Patient Access to Experimental Drugs and AIDS Clinical Trial Designs: Ethical Issues" (with C Hogan). In U Schuklenk (ed.), AIDS: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues. Dartmouth: Aldershot 2001. Reprinted from Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1996; 5(3): 400- 409.
• "Le sida en Afrique du Sud: des problèmes éthiques qui concernent l'humantié entière"(with W Pick). In JD Rainhorn MJ Burnier (eds)., La santé au risque du Marché: Incertitudes à l'aube du XXIè siècle. Geneva: IUED 2001: pp. 307-321.
• "The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation" (with E Stein, J Kerin & W Byne). In Grewal and C Kaplan (eds)., Gender in a transnational world: introduction to women’s studies. McGraw Hill: New York August 2001. Reprinted from Hastings Center Report 1997; 27(4): 6-13.
• "The origins of homosexuality: no genetic link to social change" (with W Byne, M Lasco, J Drescher). In JS Alper, C Ard, A Asch, J Beckwith, P Conrad, LN Geller (eds). The Double Edged Helix: Genetics in a Diverse Society, Johns Hopkins University Press 2002: 197-214.
• "Bioethics". In NJ Schmelser et al (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier: Dordrecht 2001: 1195-1201. (Commissioned by P Pettit.)
• "Clinical Research in Developing Countries: Trials and Tribulations". In M Parker, D Dickenson (eds). The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook. Cambridge University Press 2001: 110-112.
• "Sexual Positions: An Australian View" (with M Selgelid). In C Wood (ed). Sex in Australia. Hill of Content: Melbourne 2001; 33-45, 210-211.
• "Organ Transplants and Xenotransplantation" (with R Chadwick). In R Chadwick (ed.), The Concise Encyclopedia of New Technologies. Academic Press: San Diego 2001. 327-333.
• "La Etica de la Clonacion Reproductiva Y Terapeutica". In M Palacios (ed.), Bioetica 2000. Ediciones Nobel: Oviedo. 199-212. (Spanish language publication with Ashcroft, R.)
• "Iwan Bloch". In GE Haggerty et al. (eds.) Gay Histories and Cultures. Garland/Taylor&Francis: New York/London 2000. 126.
• "Schopenhauer, Arthur". In GE Haggerty et al. (eds.) Gay Histories and Cultures. Garland/Taylor&Francis. New York/London 2000. 779.
• "Kant, Immanuel". In GE Haggerty et al. (eds.) Gay Histories and Cultures. Garland/Taylor & Francis: New York/London 2000. 512.
• "Scientific Approaches to Homosexuality" (with M Murrain). In: GE Haggerty et al. (eds.) Gay Histories and Cultures. Garland/Taylor & Francis: New York/London 2000. 781-785.
• "Patient Access to Experimental Drugs and Clinical Trial Designs: Ethical Issues" (with C Hogan). In H Kuhse and P Singer (eds.) Bioethics: An Anthology. Blackwell: Oxford, 1999: 441-448. Reprinted from Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1996; 5: 400-409.
• "Ethically problematic research on non-pathological conditions". In MGK. Menon et al (eds). Human Genome Research: Emerging Ethical, Legal, Social and Economic Issues. Allied Publ.: New Delhi 1999. 63-70.
• "The Ethics of Genetic Research on Sexual Orientation". In J Arras and B Steinbock (eds.) Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine. 5th edition, 1998. 522-536 (with E Stein, J Kerin & W Byne); reprinted from Hastings Center Report 1997; 27(4): 6-13.
• "AIDS in the Developing World: Ethical Issues" (with S Gbadegesin, C del Rio, C Magis & V Chokevivat). In P Singer & H Kuhse (Eds.) Companion to Bioethics. Blackwell: Oxford 1998. 355-365.
• "AIDS: Individual and 'Public' Interests". In P Singer & H Kuhse (Eds.) Companion to Bioethics. Blackwell: Oxford 1998. 343-354
• "Organ transplantation" (with R. Chadwick). In R Chadwick (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press: San Diego 1997; Vol. 3: 393-398.
• "AIDS, developing world" (with C del Rio, C Magis & V Chokevivat). In R Chadwick (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press: San Diego 1997; Vol. 1: 123-127.
• "Sexual orientation" (With E Stein & J Kerin). In R Chadwick (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press: San Diego 1997; Vol. 4: 101-108.
• "Homosexuality, societal attitudes toward" (with T Riley). In R Chadwick (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press: San Diego 1997; Vol. 2: 597-603.
• "Christliche Kirchen und AIDS" (with D. Mertz). In E Dahl (ed.), Die Lehre des Unheils. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 1993; 263-279, 309-312.
• "Aktuelle Forschungen im angloamerikanischen Sprachraum: Naturwissenschaften und Philosophie". In R. Lautmann (ed.), Homosexualität - Handbuch der Theorie- und Forschungsgeschichte. Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/M. and New York 1993; 307-317.
• "Schopenhauer, Arthur". In W Dynes et al. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Garland Publ.: New York and London 1990: 1158-1159.

Teaching

• PHIL301, Bioethics
• PHIL420, Ethical Issues: Bioethics
• PHIL 820, Graduate Seminar: Bioethics

Education

• B.A., McGill
• M.Phil, Cambridge
• D.Phil, Oxford

Specializations

Moral and Political Philosophy, Bioethics

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About

I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University. I received my D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2012.

My research lies in normative ethics, practical ethics and political philosophy; much of it is where they overlap. My work in ethics seeks to identify and make sense of the boundaries of permissible harm. This work began in the context of the morality of defensive violence; it now extends beyond it, in a few different directions. Within political philosophy, my focus is luck-egalitarian distributive justice. I am interested both in explicating the egalitarian conception of distributive fairness, and in unpacking the range of moral considerations, beyond fairness, that underpin the luck-egalitarian ideal.

My work has appeared in such venues as Philosophy and Public Affairs and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Since January 2020, I have been an associate editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. I am also a member of the PEA Soup editorial team.

For more information, including a complete list of my publications, please visit my personal webpage.

Education

• BA Hons, Western University
• MA, University of Toronto
• PhD, Cornell University

Research Interests / Specializations

Social and political philosophy, with an interest in Africana and Indian Political Philosophy

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Further information about Professor Krishnamurthy and her research can be found on her personal website.

Education

PhD, University of Toronto

Specializations

Philosophy of ageing and death, philosophy of gender and sexuality, procreative ethics, philosophy of religion

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After teaching philosophy and humanities at Marianopolis College, Montreal, for nine years, Christine Overall came to Queen’s University in 1984 as a Webster Fellow in the Humanities. In 1986 she was named a Queen’s National Scholar in the Queen’s Department of Philosophy. She was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1987 and awarded tenure in 1990. In 1992 she was promoted to Full Professor. From 1997 to 2005 she served as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 2004 she was appointed to the John and Ella G. Charlton Professorship in Philosophy at Queen’s University, and in 2005 she was awarded a Queen’s University Research Chair.

Dr. Overall has also held visiting positions at several universities: the Inaugural Churchill Professorship in Feminist Philosophy at the University of Waterloo (2003); the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax) (2006-07); and the Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University (Nishinomiya) (2011-12). 

Dr. Overall was the first feminist philosopher elected to the Royal Society of Canada (1998), and was the 2008 winner of the Royal Society of Canada’s Gender Studies Award. She has received two awards for teaching excellence, one from Queen’s University (1990) and one from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (1996). Her 2003 book, Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry, won both the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Book Prize (2005) and the Royal Society of Canada’s Abbyann Lynch Medal in Bioethics (2006). In 2014 she was the recipient of Queen’s University’s Prize for Excellence in Research.

Monographs

• Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987; reprinted, 1989; republished by Routledge Library Editions (London, UK and New York City, 2013).
• Human Reproduction: Principles, Practices, Policies (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993).
• A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1998).
• Thinking like a Woman: Personal Life and Political Ideas (Toronto: Sumach Press, 2001).
• Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2003).
• Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2012).

Edited Books / Collections

• Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals, coedited with Lorraine Code and Sheila Mullett (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988; reprinted, 1992; remained in print until September, 2002).
• The Future of Human Reproduction (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1989).
• Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues, coedited with William Zion (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991; reprinted, 1992).
• Dying in Public: Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer, by Sue Hendler (Kingston: Michael Grass House, 2012).
• Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Edited Journal Issues

• “Educating Women/Women’s Education: In the Postsecondary Context,” Atlantis 33.2 (2009).

Selected Journal Articles

• “The Nature of Mystical Experience,” Religious Studies 18 (1982): 47‑54.
• “Mysticism, Phenomenalism, and W. T. Stace,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 18 (1982): 177‑190.
• “New Reproductive Technology: Some Implications for the Abortion Issue,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 19 (1985): 279‑292.
• “Miracles as Evidence against the Existence of God,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 23 (1985): 347‑353.
• “Artificial Reproduction and the Meaning of Infertility,” Queen’s Quarterly 92 (Autumn, 1985): 482‑488.
• “Reproductive Ethics: Feminist and Non‑Feminist Approaches,” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/revue juridique “la femme et le droit” I, #2 (1986): 271‑278.
• “‘Pluck A Fetus From Its Womb’: A Critique of Current Attitudes Toward the Embryo/Fetus,” The University of Western Ontario Law Review 24 (1986): 1‑14. (Winner of a $1000 prize for papers on the topic, “Reproduction and Technology: Implications for the Future”)
• “Sexuality, Parenting, and Reproductive Choices,” Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche féministe 16 #3 (September, 1987): 42‑45.
• “Ascribing Sexual Orientations,” Atlantis 13, #2 (Spring, 1988): 48‑57.
• “Mother/Fetus/State Conflicts,” Health Law in Canada 9 #4 (1989): 101‑103, 122.
• “Heterosexuality and Feminist Theory,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 #1 (March 1990): 1‑18.
• “Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women’s Reproductive Autonomy,” Hastings Center Report 20 #3 (May/June, 1990): 6‑11.
• “Access to In Vitro Fertilization: Costs, Care, and Consent,” Dialogue 30 #3 (summer, 1991): 383‑397.
• “What’s Wrong with Prostitution? Evaluating Sex Work,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17:4 (summer, 1992): 705‑724.
• “Feeling Fraudulent: Some Moral Quandaries of a Feminist Instructor,” Educational Theory 47 #1 (winter, 1997): 1-13.
• “Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. Larmer,” Dialogue 36 #4 (fall, 1997): 741-752.
• “Monogamy, Non-Monogamy, and Identity,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 13 #4 (fall, 1998): 1-17.
•  “Miracles and Larmer,” invited response to Robert Larmer’s “Miracles, Evidence, and God.” Dialogue 42 #1 (2003): 123-135.
• “Transsexualism and ‘Transracialism’,” Social Philosophy Today 20 (July, 2004): 183-193.
• “Old Age and Ageism, Impairment and Ableism: Exploring the Conceptual and Material Connections,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal Special Issue on Aging, Ageism, and Old Age 18 #1 (Spring 2006): 126-137.
• “Miracles, Evidence, Evil, and God: A Twenty-Year Debate,” Dialogue 45 #2 (Spring, 2006): 355-366.
• “Public Toilets: Sex Segregation Revisited,” Ethics and the Environment 12 (2), (Fall/Winter 2007): 71-91.
• “Never Eat Anything with a Face: Ontology and Ethics,” Planning Theory 11 (4) (2012): 336-342.
• “Reply to ‘Overall and Larmer on Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God’, by Frank Jankunis” Dialogue 53 (4) (2014): 601- 609.
• “Reproductive ‘Surrogacy’ and Parental Licensing,” Bioethics 29 (5) (2015): 353–361.
• “Rethinking Abortion, Ectogenesis, and Fetal Death,” Journal of Social Philosophy 46 (1) (2015): 126-140.

Chapters in Books (from 2010 onward)

• “‘From Here to Eternity’: Is It Good to Live Forever?” in Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions, 2nd edition, edited by David Benatar (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010): 379-393.
• “Indirect Indoctrination, Internalized Religion, and Parental Responsibility,” in Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays, edited by Peter Caws and Stefani Jones (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010): 11-26.
• “New Reproductive Technologies and Practices: Benefits or Liabilities for Children?” excerpted in The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook, second edition, edited by Donna Dickenson, Richard Huxtable, and Michael Parker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 34-36.
• “Life Span Extension: Metaphysical Basis and Ethical Outcomes,” in Enhancing Human Capacities, edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud Ter Meulen, and Guy Kahane (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011): 386-397.
• “What I Learned in Deanland, or The Adventures of a (Female) Associate Dean,” in Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts, edited by Susan Brown, Jeanne Perrault, Jo-Ann Wallace, and Heather Zwicker (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011): 143-155.
• “Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed,” with Tabitha Bernard, in Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering: Maternal Subjects, edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt (New York: Routledge, 2012): 49-63.
• “Adopting a Life Course Approach,” excerpted from Aging, Death, and Human Longevity, in Health Care Ethics in Canada, third edition, edited by Françoise Baylis, Barry Hoffmaster, Susan Sherwin, and Kirstin Borgerson (Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd., 2012): 77-85.
• Précis of Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry reprinted in Readings in Health Care Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Elisabeth (Boetzkes) Gedge and Wilfrid J. Waluchow (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2012): 618-624.
• “Women in Academia: Eight Misperceptions,” in Nancy’s Chair 25th Anniversary Celebration: A Collection of Lectures by the Holders of Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, 1999-2012, edited by Rita Shelton Deverell (Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Institute for Women, Gender, and Social Justice, 2012): 35-42.
• “The Ethical University,” in Nancy’s Chair 25th Anniversary Celebration: A Collection of Lectures by the Holders of Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, 1999-2012, edited by Rita Shelton Deverell (Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Institute for Women, Gender, and Social Justice, 2012): 43-58.
• “Gender, Aspirational Identity, and Passing,” in Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, edited by Dennis Cooley and Kelby Harrison (Farnham, England: Ashgate Press, 2012): 203-211.
• “Comments on Karin Sellberg’s ‘Pro-Passing, Transgender Identity and Literature: (Post-) Transsexual Politics and Poetics of Passing’,” in Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, edited by Dennis Cooley and Kelby Harrison (Farnham, England: Ashgate Press, 2012): 219-223.
• “A Response to Sellberg,” in Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, edited by Dennis Cooley and Kelby Harrison (Farnham, England: Ashgate Press, 2012): 227-229.
• “Trans Persons, Cisgender Persons, and Gender Identities,” in The Philosophy of Sex, sixth edition, edited by Raja Halwani and Nicholas Power (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012): 251-267.
• “Sexism and the Gendering of Universities,” in Changing Places: Feminist Essays in Empathy and Relocation, edited by Valerie Burton and Jean Guthrie (Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2014): 56-71.
• “What is the Value of Procreation?” in Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges, edited by Françoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 89-108.
• “My Parents’ Hands Are on My Back,” in Class Lives: Stories from Across Our Economic Divide, edited by Chuck Collins, Jennifer Ladd, Maynard Seider, and Felice Yeskel (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2014): 124-126.
• “When Prospective Parents Disagree” (excerpted from Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate) in Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, sixth edition, edited by Larry May and Jill B. Delston (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2016): 379-392.
• “Think Before You Breed” (reprint), in The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments, edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley (New York: Norton/Liveright, 2016), pp. 546-550.
• “Parental Licensing and Pregnancy as a Form of Education,” in Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues, edited by Jaime Ahlberg and Michael Cholbi (New York: Routledge, 2016): 246-267.
• “Paradox in Practice: What We Can Learn about Love from Relationships between Parents and Young Adult Children,” in New Philosophies of Love and Sex: Thinking through Desire, edited by Sarah LaChance Adams, Christopher M. Davidson, and Caroline R. Lundquist. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017): 145-166.
• “Throw Out the Dog? Death, Longevity and Companion Animals,” in Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall (New York: Oxford, 2017): 249-263.
• “How Old is Old?”, in The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging, edited by Geoffrey Scarre (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 13-30.
• “The Question of Longevity,” in Should We Live Forever? Biological and Ethical Perspectives, Beiträge des interdisziplinären Symposiums vom 20. Juli 2016 im Institut für Molekulare Biologie (IMB), Mainz. Akademie der Wissenshaften und der Literatur, Mainz. (Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017): 15-25.
•  “Reasons to Have Children—Or Not,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, edited by Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, and Jurgen De Wispelaere. (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2018): 147-157.
• “Whose Child is This? ‘Surrogacy,’ Authority, and Responsibility,” in Surrogacy in Canada: Critical Perspectives in Law and Policy, edited by Angela Cameron, Alana Cattapan, and Vanessa Gruber (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2018): 29-49.
• “Aging and the Loss of Social Presence,” in Aging in an Aging Society: Critical Reflections, edited by Iva Apostolova and Monique Lanoix. (Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing, 2019): 65-81.
• “The Ethics of Companion Animal Euthanasia,” in The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Bob Fischer. (New York: Routledge, 2019): 326-337.
• “The Paradox of Human Finitude,” in Aging and Human Nature, edited by Claudia Bozzaro, Mark Schweda, and Michael Coors (New York: Springer, 2020): 161-169.
•  “Is Ageing Good?,” in The Ethics of Ageing, edited by Christopher Wareham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2021).
• “Ain’t Love Grand? Looking at Grandparental Love,” in Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present and Future, edited by Natasha McKeever, Joe Saunders, and André Grahle. New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2021).

Work in progress

• papers on philosophy of death and ageing
• "My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-Natalism”

Media

In addition to many radio and television interviews, from 1993 to 2006 Dr. Overall wrote a weekly column entitled “In Other Words,” published in the Kingston Whig-Standard. From 2008 to 2011 she wrote a monthly column for University Affairs, Canada’s national academic magazine.

Courses Taught

• PHIL 101Introduction to Philosophy
• PHIL 157 Moral Issues
• PHIL 204 Life, Death, and Meaning
• PHIL 263 Philosophy of Religion
• PHIL 301 Moral Philosophy and Medicine (retitled Biomedical Ethics)
• PHIL 375 Philosophy and Feminism
• PHIL 376 Philosophy and Feminism
• PHIL 454*/854 Topics in Feminist Philosophy: The Feminist Sexuality Debates
• PHIL 454*/854 Topics in Feminist Philosophy: Philosophy of the Body
• PHIL 495*/895 Ethics and Human Reproduction
• PHIL 402/673 Advanced Studies in Feminism (University of Waterloo)
• GWOM 6615 Feminist Philosophy and the Body (Mount Saint Vincent University)
• PHIL 3350/WOMS 4411 Feminism and Masculinities (Mount Saint Vincent University)
• Bioethics in Canada (Undergraduate) (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
• Philosophy and Death (Graduate) (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

Education

• B.A., University of Ottawa
• M.A., Cornell University
• Ph.D., Cornell University

Specializations

Early or Theravada Buddhism, José Martí

Recent Monographs

• Early Buddhism as Philosophy of Existence: Freedom and Death (London, UK: Anthem Press, May 2022)
• Humanism and Embodiment: From Cause and Effect to Secularism (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• José Martí, Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Global Development Ethics: The Battle for Ideas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

• “The Art of Dying is the Art of Living: Rationality in Theravada Buddhism”, Philosophy East and West (University of Hawaii) (2021) 73:1.  
• “Anarchy a false hope? Latin American revolutionaries knew dhamma and saddha” Leah Kalmanson, ed. Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies (Bloomsbury Press, 2018).
• “Political Freedom and Epistemic Injustice” in Ian Kidd, José Medina, Gaile Polhaus eds. Handbook on Epistemic Injustice (Routledge Press, 2017).

Media & Online Publications

• Reviewer, New York Journal of Books (since 2017)
• Author, Counterpunch (since 2015)
• Author, Global Research (since 2015)
• Author, The Saker
• Le Monde Diplomatique

Education

• B.A., Waterloo 
• M.A., Waterloo
• Ph.D., Dalhousie

Specializations

Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics 

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About

My work over the past ten years has been informed by key insights in the embodied cognitive science tradition. These ideas are currently finding expression in a book, A Pragmatic Account of Cognition: Rethinking Externalism and Intentionality, due for completion in 2023. In it I advance a theory of cognition that challenges the view that human cognition is grounded in a biologically fundamental capacity for representation. I argue that this reductive internalist picture is mistaken, misguided, and ultimately misguiding and in its stead, I advocate for a version of externalism on which representation use is a learned skill.

In my other professional role, I am Anglophone Editor of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, an established, generalist journal of philosophy. Recently, my colleagues and I have launched a new series, Project Babel Fish, in which we print a paper in English alongside a version in the author’s native language. We intend to continue this each year, offering selected authors the opportunity to have their work translated by our team to the extent of our ability. We hope that this initiative will foster dialogue between diverse philosophical communities.

A few years back I founded ESC (Embodiment, Systems, and Complexity), an inter-disciplinary research institute of embodied cognition, with the hope that it would become an inter-discplinary hub and resource for current papers in the field. Unfortunately work on it generally falls to the very bottom of my to-do list and so it hasn't changed much since then, but one day .... In the meantime, I encourage people who are interested in embodied, enactive ideas to subscribe, add a post, or let us know about interesting events or papers.

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• PhD, Cornell University

Specializations 

Science and Technology Studies

About

Sergio Sismondo does research in Science and Technology Studies at intersections of philosophy and sociology of science. Recently, he has been studying the nature and distribution of pharmaceutical research, seeing this as a project in the political economy of knowledge. He is at the beginning of a project on “epistemic corruption,” exploring contestation around knowledge practices. Earlier and continuing work has been connected to questions about realism, constructivism, and deflationism. Sismondo is currently editor of the journal Social Studies of Science, one of the flagship journals in Science and Technology Studies.

Selected Monographs

• Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands (Mattering, 2018, translated into Chinese, 2019)
• An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2nd ed (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 1st ed Blackwell 2004, multiply translated)

Edited Books / Collections

• The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader (with Jeremy Greene) (Wiley, 2015)

Selected Edited Journal Issues

• Special issue on Pharmaceutical Research and Marketing, Social Studies of Science 34 no. 2, 2004.
• Special issue on Modeling and Simulation, Science in Context 12, no.2, 1999.

Plus more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.

Work in Progress

'Epistemic Corruption'

Media

Various interviews for radio, print news, and podcasts.

Education

• BSc, University of Toronto
• MSc, University of Toronto
• PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Specializations / Research Interests 

Philosophy of Science, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Neuroscience and Psychiatry

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Email

c dot stinson at queensu.ca

About

I received my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in History & Philosophy of Science, and a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. I have published in philosophy of neuroscience (attention, mechanistic explanation), philosophy of psychiatry (anorexia, classification of disorders), philosophy of artificial intelligence (explanation in artificial neural networks, neo-phrenology), and tech policy (data governance, terms of service agreements, AI ethics education). My current research interests include algorithmic bias in recommendation and search, regulation of social media platforms, how diversity affects research, the metaphysics of scientific models, the medicalization of gender, and data science for anti-racist advocacy.

Recent Journal Articles

• Stinson, C. (2020) From Implausible Artificial Neurons to Idealized Cognitive Models: Rebooting Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Philosophy of Science. 87(4), 590–611.
• Stinson, C. (2019) The Absent Body in Psychiatric Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research. Synthese. 196(6), 2153-2176.
• Stinson, C. (2016) Mechanisms in Psychology: Ripping Nature at its Seams. Synthese. 193(5), 1585- 1614. 
• Piryankova, I.V., Wong, H.Y., Linkenauger, S., Stinson, C., Longo, M., Bülthoff, H.H., Mohler, B.J. (2014) Owning an Overweight or Underweight Body: Distinguishing the Physical, Experienced and Virtual Body. PLOS One 9(8): e103428.
• Stinson, C. (2009) Searching for The Source of Executive Attention. PSYCHE 15(1): 137-154.

Policy Papers

• Agency and Ethics in a Complex World. Future EDge, Issue 2. New South Wales Department of Education (September 2020)
• Healthy Data: Policy Solutions for Big Data and AI Innovation in Health. The Mowat Centre. (December 2018)

Chapters in Books

• Stinson, C. (2018). Explanation and Connectionist Models. In The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind, Eds. M. Colombo and M. Sprevak. 120–133.
• Stinson, C. and Sullivan, J. (2017). Mechanistic Explanation in Neuroscience. In The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy, Eds. S. Glennan and P. Illari. 375–388.
• Stinson, C. (2017). Back to the Cradle: Mechanism Schemata from Piaget to DNA. In Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer, Eds. M. Abrams, Z. Biener, U. Feest, J. Sullivan. Springer. 183–194.

Selected Public Philosophy and Op-Eds

• Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past. Aeon (May 2020).
• Is my Fungus Going Viral?: Data Privacy in Healthcare. The Globe and Mail (July 6, 2018).
• Deep Learning: Why it’s Time for AI to get Philosophical. The Globe and Mail (March 25, 2018).

Recent Interviews

• Sept 2020 interview on CBC Radio, Ontario Morning about GPT-3 and the threat of general AI.
• June 2020 interview on ABC Radio, Counterpoint about facial recognition and phrenology.
• June 2020 interview in El Pais, Retina about facial recognition and surveillance.
• June 2019 interview on CBC Radio, Spark about AI ethics education.

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• DPhil, Oxford University

Specializations / Research Interests

Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Feminist Philosophy

Personal Website

About

Christine Sypnowich found her path to political philosophy when she encountered the work of C.B. Macpherson at the University of Toronto, where she completed her first two degrees before taking up a Commonwealth Scholarship to do a doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford. Sypnowich has held teaching appointments at Oxford University, Leeds University, Leiden University, University of California (San Diego), and York University, before coming to Queen’s. She has been awarded visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and All Souls College, Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 

Christine Sypnowich’s early work was in the philosophy of law, particularly the possibility of socialist legality given the Marxist antipathy to law. This was the subject of her first monograph published with OUP, a revised version of her Oxford dissertation. More recently her research has centred on egalitarianism, making the case for a human flourishing approach to equality in Equality Renewed: Justice, Human Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Routledge 2018). She has published over 60 essays as journal articles or book chapters. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Russian and Spanish and abridged versions published in accessible formats such as textbooks and popular philosophy. She is currently completing a book on the philosophy of G.A. Cohen for Polity Press. Active in the city of Kingston as an advocate for transparency at City Hall as well as heritage conservation, Sypnowich is also working on a monograph on the political philosophy of cultural heritage.

Monographs

• G.A. Cohen: Liberty, Equality and Justice (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2024)
• Equality Renewed: Justice, Human Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal (Routledge, 2017; in paperback 2018)
• The Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford University Press, 1990; translated into Chinese, 2017)

Monographs under contract

• ‘Why It’s OK to be a Socialist’, book project commissioned in 2020 by Routledge.

Edited Books / Collections

• (ed. with Andrée-Anne Cormier) Family Values and Social Justice, Routledge, London, 2018.
• (ed. with Robert Cardwell and Barb Carr) Barriefield: Two Centuries of Village Life, Quarry Press, Kingston, 2015.
• The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.
• (ed. with David Bakhurst) The Social Self, Sage Publications, London, 1995.

Edited Journal Issues

• (with Andrée-Anne Cormier) Critical Review of International Studies in Social and Political Philosophy special issue on Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift, Family Values (Princeton University Press, 2015), 2017. DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2017.1398447

Selected Journal Articles

• 'The Demands of Equality’, Social Philosophy & Policy, 39, 2, Winter 2022 (forthcoming).
• ‘What’s Wrong with Equality of Opportunity’, Philosophical Topics, Fall 2021 (forthcoming). 
• ‘Monuments and Monsters: Education, cultural heritage and sites of conscience’, Journal of the Philosophy of Education, June 2021.
• ‘Lessons from Dystopia: Critique, Hope and Political Education,’ paper commissioned for a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Education, 52, 4, March 2019, pp. 660-676.
• ‘Flourishing Children, Flourishing Adults: Families, Equality and the Neutralism-Perfectionism Debate,’ Critical Review of International Studies in Social and Political Philosophy 21, 3, November 2017, pp. 314-332.
• ‘What’s Left in Egalitarianism? Marxism and the Limitations of Liberal Theories of Equality,’ Philosophy Compass, August 2017; DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12428, pp. 1-10.
• ‘G.A. Cohen’s Socialism: Scientific but also Utopian,’ Socialist Studies, 8, 12, 2012, pp. 20-34.
• ‘The Culture of Citizenship,’ Politics and Society, 28, 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 531-555.
• ‘How to Live the Good Life: William Morris’s Aesthetic Conception of Equality,’ Queen’s Quarterly, 107, 3, 2000, pp. 391-411.
• ‘Some Disquiet About Difference,’ Praxis International, 13, 2, August 1993, pp. 99-112.
• ‘Justice, Community and the Antinomies of Feminist Theory,’ Political Theory 21, 3, August 1993, pp. 484-506.
• ‘The Future of Socialist Legality: A Reply to Hunt,’ New Left Review, 193, May/June 1992, pp. 16-24.
• ‘Fear of Death: Mortality and Modernity in Political Philosophy,’ Queen's Quarterly, 98, 3, 1991, pp. 618-36.
• ‘The “Withering Away” of Law,’ Studies in Soviet Thought, 33, 4, May 1987, pp. 305-332.
• ‘Consent, Self-Government and Obligation,’ Praxis International, 6, 3, October 1986, pp. 256-76.

Selected Chapters in Books

• 'The Rule of Law and the Social Ethos’ for Michael Sevel, ed., Routledge Handbook of the Rule of Law, Routledge (forthcoming)
• ‘Law and the Socialist Ideal’, in ed. P. O’Connell and Umut Ozsu, Elgar Handbook on Law and Marxism, Elgar Publishing (forthcoming).
• ‘Liberalism, Marxism, Equality and Living Well,’ in Jan Kandiyali (ed.) Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing, Routledge 2018, pp. 187-208.
• ‘Conservatism, Perfectionism and Equality,’ in D. Bakhurst and P. Fairfield (eds), Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy, Bloomsbury, London, 2016, pp. 77-94.
• ‘Barriefield: A Living History,’ Barriefield: Two Centuries of Village Life (ed. with Robert Cardwell and Barb Carr), Quarry Press, Kingston, 2015, pp. 194-219.
• ‘A New Approach to Equality,’ in Roberto Merrill and Daniel Weinstock (ed.) Political Neutrality: A Re-evaluation, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2014, pp. 178-209.
• ‘The Left and Wrongs: Marxism, Law and Torts,’ in The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development, Vol. 7, Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law on Torts in Europe, edited by Michael Lobban and Julia Moses, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, pp. 150-166.
• ‘Begging,’ in The Egalitarian Conscience, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, pp. 177-194.
• ‘Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitanism and Human Flourishing,’ in G. Brock and H. Brighouse (eds.) The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 55-74.
• ‘Egalitarianism Renewed,’ in R. Beiner and W. Norman (eds.), Canadian Political Philosophy at the Turn of the Century: Exemplary Essays, Oxford University Press 2000, pp. 118-30.
• ‘Utopia and the Rule of Law,’ in D. Dyzenhaus (ed.), Re-crafting the Rule of Law: the Limits of Legal Order, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1999, pp. 178-95.

Selected Reviews & Review Essays

• Review of Matthew Kramer, Liberalism with Excellence, in Ethics, April 2019
• 'Citizens of the World' (review essay of Brooke A. Ackerly, Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference, Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonweath of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracies, David A. Crocker, Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability and Deliberative Democracy, and Dora Kostakopoulou, The Future Governance of Citizenship), in Political Theory, 2010.
• 'Taking Britain’s Human Rights Act Seriously' (review essay of Conor Gearty, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication), in University of Toronto Law Journal, 2008.
• 'Ruling or Overruled? The People, Rights and Democracy' (review essay of Will Waluchow, A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree), in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2007.
• 'Equality: From Marxism to Liberalism (and Back Again)' (review essay of G.A. Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?), in Political Studies Review, 2003.
• 'Race, Culture and the Egalitarian Conscience', (review essay of K.A. Appiah and A. Gutmann, Color Conscious), in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1999.
• 'Social Justice and Legal Form' (review essay of D. Dyzenhaus, Hard Cases and Wicked Legal Systems), in Ratio Juris 1994.
• 'Law as a Vehicle of Altruism' (review essay of Tom Campbell, The Left and Rights), in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1985.

Encyclopedia Entries

• ‘Steven Lukes’, Encyclopaedia of Political Thought, Wiley 2014.
• ‘Socialist Law’, The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopaedia, Garland, New York, 1999.
• ‘Law and Ideology’, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2005; revised 2010; 2014; 2019.

Work in Progress

• ‘A Political Philosophy of Cultural Heritage’ (monograph)

Media

• ‘Backyard Ethics: Defending the NIMBY’, The Philosopher’s Zone, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programme, 1 July 2018; repeated 13 January 2019: broadcast on CBC Radio on 13 January 2019.
• ‘Christine Sypnowich’, Into the Coast internet interviews of philosophers, 2019
• ‘Christine Sypnowich,’ interview with Christina Decarie, Profile Kingston, 2017.
• ‘The Concept of Socialist Law – internet Interview with Christine Sypnowich by Jack Marsh,’ Rebel News, 2015
• ‘Unreliable Friends’ letter in London Review of Books 16 March 2000.
• Member of a 3-philosopher panel (with Will Kymlicka and Arthur Ripstein) on a 1-hour programme discussing ‘The Public Good’ with Lister Sinclair, Ideas, CBC Radio, 1996.

Also a number of interviews about my advocacy work in the city of Kingston on issues such as heritage conservation, school closures, democracy and transparency at City Hall, in the local press such as the Kingston Whig Standard, as well as Global TV News, CBC Radio (Ontario Morning, All in a Day).

Teaching

• Phil 153 The State and the Citizen
• Phil 257 Ethics
• Phil 271 Philosophy and Literature
• Phil 318 Philosophy of Law

Also senior undergraduate and graduate seminars in Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, on such subjects as equality, human flourishing, socialism, G.A. Cohen’s philosophy, the rule of law. 

I am currently supervising 2 PhD students, 3 MA students.

Education

• B.A., Queen's University
• B.Phil, University of Oxford
• D.Phil, University of Oxford

Specialization

Political Philosophy

Personal Website

About

Will’s research interests focus on issues of democracy and diversity, and in particular on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies. He has published eight books and over 200 articles, which have been translated into 32 languages, and has received several awards, most recently: Honorary Doctorates from the University of Copenhagen in 2013 and KU Leuven in 2014; the 2019 Gold Medal from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council; and the Royal Society of Canada’s Pierre Chauveau Medal in 2021. In 2023 Will was appointed to the Order of Canada. His books include: Contemporary Political Philosophy (OUP 1990; second edition 2002); Multicultural Citizenship (OUP 1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association; Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (OUP 2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award; and Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (OUP 2011), co-authored with Sue Donaldson, which was awarded the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Best Book Prize in 2013. Will and Sue are co-convenors of the Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics research group at Queen’s.

A full list of Will’s publications is available on his personal website. Several of his recent and forthcoming papers are available on his Academia.edu page.