The National Post reports on Udo Schüklenk's paper with Julian Savulescu on conscientious objection. Udo argues that authorities should bar doctors from refusing to provide such services as abortion and assisted death on moral grounds, and screen out potential medical students who might impose their values on patients.
Sergio Sismondo was on CBC's The National, speaking about hidden drug marketing. The company Novo Nordisk has been trying to put the condition "vaginal atrophy" simultaneously in the public and the medical eye, and has tightly linked that label to its drug for it. See the print version is here.
Josh Mozersky was recently interviewed about his new book Time, Language & Ontology for 3:AM Magazine, and also for New Books in Philosophy.
It is with sadness that we note the passing of Edward (Ted) Bond, a long-time member of the Department. Ted did his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Queen's, and completed a PhD at Cornell. He returned to Queen's as a faculty member in 1964, and had a distinguished career that won him many honours and resulted in important articles and books, perhaps most notably his Reason and Value (1983). Ted Bond will be remembered for his passion for philosophy.
Will Kymlicka has published four new edited collections, including one with former Queen's postdoctoral fellow Charlotte Blattner.
Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?, edited by Charlotte Blattner, Kendra Coulter & Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis, ed. Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Brian Leiter reports that Will Kymlicka is among the very most cited of contemporary philosophers. According to Leiter's survey, Kymlicka is ranked fourth in citations among living philosophers with public Google Scholar pages.
Professor Udo Schüklenk has been appointed Visiting Professor of the Health and Bioethics Center at Wenzhou Medical University. The picture below shows the President of Wenzhou University, Professor Lu Fan, handing over the appointment certificate during the appointments ceremony.
Kerah Gordon-Solmon's work on self-defence is the subject of a focused discussion on the Pea Soup blog. Kerah's paper, "Self-defence against multiple threats" is is currently available in the “Advance Articles” section online at the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
