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

Personal Website

About

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

Personal Website

About

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 

Queen's Webpage

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

Personal Website

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 nine 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 two books co-authored with Sue Donaldson: Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (OUP 2011), which was awarded the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Best Book Prize in 2013, and Animals and the Right to Politics (OUP, 2025). Will and Sue are co-convenors of the Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics research group at Queen’s. 

Will is also the co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's program on Boundaries, Membership and Belonging.

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.

Education

• BA, Bishop’s
• PhD, University of Toronto

Specializations / Research Interests

Critical Prison Studies, Phenomenology, Feminism, Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Race Theory

Personal Website

About

Lisa Guenther is Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies.  She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013) and The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction (2007), and co-editor of Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2015). She has published articles and book chapters in phenomenology, feminism, prison studies, and critical race studies, including recent work on police violence, prisoner resistance, and carceral space. As a public philosopher, Guenther’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Aeon, and CBC’s Ideas. From 2012-17, she facilitated a discussion group with men on death row in Tennessee called REACH Coalition, and she is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the P4W Memorial Collective. Guenther teaches philosophy classes at Collins Bay Institution through the Walls to Bridges Program. She is working on a critical phenomenology of prison abolition and decolonization on Turtle Island. 

Monographs

• Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
• The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006.

Edited Books / Collections

• Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration. Co-edited with Geoff Adelsberg and Scott Zeman.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.

Edited Journal Issues

• Co-editor with Chloë Taylor, Special Issue: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6.1, Winter 2016.
• Co-editor with Ami Harbin, Special Issue: Phenomenology, Affect, and Emotion, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 7.2, Fall 2012.
• Co-editor with Chloë Taylor, Special Issue: Continental Perspectives on Animals, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 2:2, Fall 2007.

Journal Articles

• 'Collective Memory at Canada's Prison for Women,' Critical Times 7:2, August 2024, 260-79.
• 'Property, Dispossession, and State Violence: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance in Canada,' Philosophy Today 67:1 (Special Issue on Violent Democracies), Winter 2023, 81-98.
• ‘Stiftung dekolonisiert: Eine Lektüre von Merleau-Pontys Vorlesungen über Institution’ (German translation of ‘Asking Different Questions: A Decolonial Reading of Merleau-Ponty’s Institution Course Notes’), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71:6 (2023), 921–932. 
• ‘#AbolishCanada: Breaking Down the 2022 Freedom Convoy,’ Special Section, Against the Day: Abolition Politics, South Atlantic Quarterly 122:3 (July 2023), 651-9.
• ‘Asking Different Questions: A Decolonial Reading of Merleau-Ponty’s Institution Course Notes,’ Chiasmi International (Special Issue on ‘Critical Phenomenology After Merleau-Ponty, Part II’) 24, 2022.
• ‘Abolish the World As We Know It: Notes for a Praxis of Phenomenology Beyond Critique,’ Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology (Special Issue on Dwelling in the Contemporary Condition) 5:2, 2022. https://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/pjcp/article/view/4922 
• Linda Mussell, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby, and Lisa Guenther, ‘‘A prison is no place for a party’: Neoliberalism, charitable fundraising, carceral enjoyments and abolitionist killjoys,’ Contemporary Justice Review, 30 Jan 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10282580.2021.2018655
• 'Six Senses of Critique for Critical Phenomenology,' Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 4:2 (Special Issue on the Collegium Phaenomenologicum), 2021.
• 'Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada's Prison for Women,' Space and Culture (Special Issue on Critical Perspectives on Sites of Conscience), December 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/12063312211066549 
• 'Dwelling in Carceral Space,’ Levinas Studies 12, 2018.
• ‘The Unmaking and Remaking of the World in Long-Term Solitary Confinement,’ Social Philosophy Today 34, 2018.
• ‘The Unmaking and Remaking of the World in Long-Term Solitary Confinement,’ Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 1:1, 2018.
• ‘Prison Beds and Compensated Man-Days: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Carceral Neoliberalism,’ Special Issue on Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State, Social Justice 44:2/3, 2018.
• ‘A Critical Phenomenology of Dwelling in Carceral Space,’ Special issue on Phenomenology against Architectural Phenomenology, Log 42, Winter 2018.
• ‘The Creaturely Politics of Prison Resistance Movements,’ Carceral Notebooks, “Challenging the Punitive Society,” ed. Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts, 12, 2016. 
• (with Chloë Taylor) ‘Introduction: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to the Prison Nation’, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6.1, 1-8, Winter 2016.
• ‘Political Action at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the California Prison Hunger Strikes,’ The Canadian Journal for Human Rights 4:1, 2015.
• ‘The Most Dangerous Place: Pro-Life Politics and the Rhetoric of Slavery.’ Postmodern Culture 22:2 (January), 2013.
• ‘Fecundity and Natal Alienation: Rethinking Kinship with Emmanuel Levinas and Orlando Patterson.’ Levinas Studies 7. Special Issue on Levinas and Race, Ed. John Drabinski, 2012.
• ‘Beyond Dehumanization: A Post-Humanist Critique of Intensive Confinement.’ Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10:2, Special Issue on Animals and Prisons, 2012.
• ‘Resisting Agamben: The Biopolitics of Shame and Humiliation.’ Philosophy and Social Criticism 38:1, 2012, pp. 59-79.
• ‘The Ethics and Politics of Otherness: Negotiating Alterity and Racial Difference.’ philoSOPHIA 1.2, 2011, pp 195-214.
• ‘Subjects without a World? An Husserlian Analysis of Solitary Confinement.’ Human Studies 34, 2011, pp 257–276.
• ‘Merleau-Ponty and the Sense of Sexual Difference.’ Angelaki 16:2, 2011, pp 19-33.
• ‘Shame and the Temporality of Social Life.’ Continental Philosophy Review 44:1, March 2011.
• ‘Other Fecundities: Proust and Irigaray on Sexual Difference.’ differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 21:2, 2010, pp 24-45.
• ‘‘Nameless Singularity’: Levinas on Individuation and Ethical Singularity.’ Epoché 14:1, Fall 2009, pp 167–187.
• ‘Who follows whom?  Derrida, Animals and Women.’  Derrida Today 2:2, 151-65, 2009.
• ‘Being-from-Others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero.’ Hypatia 23:4, Fall 2008.
• ‘Le flair animal: Levinas and the possibility of friendship.’ PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 2:2, Fall 2007.
• ‘‘Like a Maternal Body’: Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses,’ Hyaptia 21:1, Special Issue on Maternal Bodies, 119-136, Winter 2006.
• ‘Lucky Burden: Beauvoir and the Ethical Temporality of Birth’, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 9:2, 177-194, 2005. 
• ‘Unborn Mothers: The old rhetoric of New Reproductive Technologies’, Radical Philosophy, 130, 2-6, March/April 2005.
• ‘Towards a Phenomenology of Dwelling,’ Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 7(2), 38-46, 2002. 

Chapters in Books

• 'Unsettling Perception: A Critical Phenomenology of Settler Colonial Body Schemas,' Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life: Social Critique, Sense-Institution, and Political Emancipations, eds. Andreea Smaranda Aldea and Delia Popa. Forthcoming from Springer.
• 'Phenomenology, Abolition, and the Lived Experience of Incarceration,' Abolitionist Voices, ed. David Gordon Scott. Bristol University Press, 2025. 
• 'A Phenomenological Critique of White Ignorance,' The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology, ed. Steffen Hermann, Gerhard Thonhauser, Sophie Loidolt, Tobias Matzner, and Nils Baratella. Routledge, 2024.  
• ‘Intergenerational Responsibility for Settler Colonial Violence,’ Rethinking Responsibility, ed. Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt, Ferdinando G. Menga, and Christian Schlenker. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, pp. 153-77. 
• ‘Six Senses of Critique for Critical Phenomenology’ (translated into German), Phänomenologie und Kritische Theorie, ed. Jochen Dreher, Alexis Gros, and Hartmut Rosa. Suhrkamp, 2022. 
• ‘Police, Drones, and the Politics of Perception,’ The Ethics of Policing, ed. Eduardo Mendieta and Ben Jones. New York: New York University Press, 2021.
• ‘Settler Colonialism, Incarceration, and the Abolitionist Imperative: Lessons from an Australian Youth Detention Centre,’ Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice, ed. Chloë Taylor and Kelly Struthers Montford. New York: Routledge, 2021.
• ‘CCA/Core Civic,’ I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites, ed. Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams Jr. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2021.
• ‘‘We Charge Genocide’: Anti-Black Racism in the United States as Genocidal Structural Violence,’ Logics of Genocide, ed. Ann O’Byrne and Martin Shuster. New York: Routledge, 2020.
• ‘Critical Phenomenology,’ 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Ann Murphy, Gayle Salamon, and Gail Weiss. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
• ‘Seeing Like a Cop: A Critical Phenomenology of Whiteness as Property,’ Race and Phenomenology, ed. Emily Lee. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
• ‘‘An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex,’ Deconstructing the Death Penalty Towards a New Abolitionism: Essays on Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars, ed. Kelly Oliver, with Stephanie Straub.  Fordham University Press, 2018, pp. 239-258.
• ‘Epistemic Injustice and Phenomenology,’ The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, ed. Ian Kidd, José Medina, and Gaile Pohlhaus. New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 195-204.
• ‘A Critical Phenomenology of Solidarity and Resistance in the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes,’ Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters, ed. Luna Dolezal and Danielle Petherbridge. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2017, pp. 42-74.
• ‘Angela Davis,’ Fifty Key Feminist Philosophers, ed. Lori Marso. New York: Routledge, 2016.
• ‘Life Behind Bars: The Eugenic Structure of Mass Incarceration,’ Feminist Philosophies of Life, ed. Hasana Sharp and Chloe Taylor. Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
• ‘On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty,’ The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. Ed. Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• ‘The Living Death of Solitary Confinement’ in The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments. Ed. Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2015.
• ‘Social Death and the Power of Creative Resistance,’ The House That Herman Built, ed. Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace. Stuttgart, Germany: Reihe Projectiv, 2015.
• ‘Beyond Guilt and Innocence: The Creaturely Life of Prisoner Resistance,’ Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition, ed. Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn. Palgrave 2015.
• ‘The Psychopathology of Space: A Phenomenological Critique of Solitary Confinement,’ Medicine and Society in Continental Perspective, ed. Darian Meacham. Dortrecht: Springer, 2015.
• ‘Inhabiting the House that Herman Built: Merleau-Ponty and the Pathological Space of Solitary Confinement.’ Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, ed. Patricia Locke and Rachel McCann.  Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015.
• ‘Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell “Maroon” Shoatz,’ Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and the Death Penalty. Co-edited by Geoffrey Adelsberg and Scott Zeman. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
• ‘The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau-Ponty.’ In Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering.  Ed. Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist. Fordham University Press, 2012.

Encyclopedia Entries

• ‘Prison Studies,’ Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Nicolas de Warren and Ted Toadvine. Springer, 2024. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-47253-5_348-1

Work in Progress

• No Prisons on Stolen Land: A Critical Phenomenology of Carceral Colonial Power (book)

Media

• ‘Education Behind Bars: Transformative Pedagogy in Prisons,’ Re-Educated Podcast, 1 May 2024. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84MzRiMDI1Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/MmVhMjhlM2QtNWRjYS00OTM5LTk5MGEtMmU1NGU2Y2I5Mjk4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiYmJTYhe2FAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ 
• Talkback session for ‘The Flood,’ Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 25 Feb 2024.
• ‘An Interview with Lisa Guenther (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series),’ Constanza Porro, 15 Jan 2024. https://justice-everywhere.org/beyond-the-ivory-tower/an-interview-with-lisa-guenther-beyond-the-ivory-tower-series/ 
• Podcast Interview with Rebel Justice, ‘Abolitionists Rising: Reimagining Justice Beyond Prisons with Lisa Guenther,’ 16 December 2023 https://player.fm/series/rebel-justice-changing-the-way-you-see-justice/abolitionists-rising-reimagining-justice-beyond-prisons-with-lisa-guenther  
• ‘Memory and Forgetting at Canada’s Prison for Women,’ Mountjoy Prison and The Dochas Centre (women’s prison), Dublin, 15 Nov. 2023.
• ‘Collective Memory at Canada’s Prison for Women,’ APA Blog on Public Philosophy, 9 Nov. 2023. https://blog.apaonline.org/2023/11/09/collective-memory-at-canadas-prison-for-women/
• ‘Solitary Confinement and the Meaning of Existence,’ Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, UK, 23 March, 2022. Online presentation and discussion. https://glosphilsoc.net/ 
• ‘Prison redevelopment on three continents: Lessons from community-led struggles’ (with Linda Mussell). Spring: A Magazine of Socialist Ideas in Action (31 March, 2021). https://springmag.ca/prison-redevelopment-on-three-continents-lessons-from-community-led-struggles 
• Podcast on solitary confinement with Shokoufeh Sakhi for Solitudes Past and Present. Forthcoming on https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/.
• ‘A Short History of Solitude: Locked Down’ (interview with Thomas Dixon for podcast on solitary confinement). Sept. 2020. BBC Sounds.
• ‘Redemption in the DDU’ (interview on solitary confinement for podcast) Hi-Phi Nation. 30 May, 2020. Podcast launched with one-hour webinar for subscribers on 4 June.
• ‘Teachin’ Against the Big House: A Teach-in on Prison Entertainment and Redevelopment,’ John Deutsch University Centre, Queen’s University, 12 Sept., 2019. Co-organizer and facilitator of a teach-in featuring Justin Piché, Kevin Walby, Ann Hansen, Jimmy Hogan, and Donny Hogan.
• ‘The Death Penalty, Sovereignty and Abolition,’ Interview on Rustbelt Abolition Radio, 29 May, 2019.
• ‘Interweaving #4 - Lisa Guenther and Rivka Rocchio on Mass Incarceration,’ 10 May, 2019.
• ‘Justice for Soli: Islamophobia, Race and Prisons’ (roundtable discussion at Queen’s University). 25 March, 2019.
• ‘Blind Date with Knowledge’ (interview on CFRC radio). 17 Oct., 2018.
• ‘What is lost when we pave over a prison,’ The Globe and Mail, 5 July, 2018.
• ‘White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement,’ co-authored with Abigail Levin, The New York Times, 28 Aug., 2017.
• ‘The Ugly Truth behind Mass Incarceration and Recidivism,’ Food for Thought Community Lunchtime Program, Vanderbilt University, 28 March, 2017.
• Lecture on Solitary Confinement, Osher Lifelong Learning Course on Mass Incarceration, Brentwood, TN, 11 Nov., 2016.
• ‘Embodied by Prisons: First the Whip, Then the Chains, and Then…’ Radio interview on Interchange, WFHB, 17 November, 2015.
• ‘A Theorist Unchained,’ profile by David Schimke, Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August, 2015.
• Radio interview about teaching philosophy on death row, CHQR news radio, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 10 July, 2015.
• “Teaching Philosophy on Death Row: An Interview with Lisa Guenther,” Albert W. Dzur, Boston Review, 26 June, 2015.
• “The mental and physical effects of solitary confinement,” Interview with Tom Crann and Laura Sullivan, Minnesota Public Radio, 13 April, 2015.
• “The Professor: Lisa Guenther,” Steven Hale, Nashville Scene, People Issue, 19 March, 2015. 
• “An Interview with Lisa Guenther,” Michael Giesbrecht, Affectus: Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy and Theory 1:1, 2014.
• “The Living Tomb,” Radio Interview, The Terry Project, University of British Colombia, 3 July, 2014. 
• ‘The Concrete Abyss: Why Solitary Confinement Degrades Us All,’ Aeon Magazine, 16 April 2014.
• “Solitude’s Despair,” Review of Solitary Confinement by Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 3 April, 2014.
• “Living Philosophically: A Conversation with Dr. Lisa Guenther,” Interview with Rachel Robinson. Ryerson Philosophy Graduate Student’s Union blog, 6 January, 2014.
• Radio Interview about life on Tennessee’s death row, Prison Radio, 27 Dec., 2013.
• Newspaper interview: “Solitary confinement: a phenomenological perspective,” Quinn Richert, The Manitoban, 3 Dec., 2013.
• “Solitary Confinement Is a Legal Form of Torture in Canada,” Interview with Martha Coté, Vice Magazine, 18 Nov., 2013.
• ‘Alone and Apart,’ Philosopher's Zone (ABC Radio Interview), 13 Oct., 2013.
• ‘The California SHU and the End of the World.’ Society and Space, Forum on The US Carceral Society, 24 Sept., 2013.
• ‘Alone Inside,’ Ideas (CBC Radio Documentary on Solitary Confinement), 3 Sept., 2013.
• ‘Erring on the Side of Life,’ New APPS, 22 Aug., 2013.
• ‘The Biopolitics of Starvation in California Prisons.’ Society and Space, 2 Aug., 2013.
• ‘Social Death and the Criminalization of Resistance in the California Prison Hunger Strikes.’ Truthout, 2 Aug., 2013.
• ‘What is the Experience of Isolation?’ Interview in The Believer, June 2013.
• ‘The Living Death of Solitary Confinement.’ The New York Times, 26 Aug., 2012.

Teaching

• PHIL 318 Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 256 Existentialism
• PHIL 276 Critical Perspectives on Social Diversity
• PHIL 406 and PHIL 407 Walls to Bridges
• PHIL 441/841 Critical Phenomenology
• CUST 807/PHIL 821 Settler Colonialism and Incarceration

Education

• PhD, McMaster University

Specializations / Research Interests

Continental Philosophy

Personal Website

About

My writings fall broadly within the traditions of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism, and major influences on my work to date include Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gabriel Marcel, John Dewey, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Augustine.

My new book is titled The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis and will be published later this year by State University of New York Press. Current projects include a book titled An Aesthetics of the Sacred.

Whatever free time I have is largely spent with my wife, Gwyneth, and our daughter, Evangeline, or in my home gym. I am an eleventh-generation Canadian and a practicing Roman Catholic.  

Monographs

• The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis. State University of New York Press, 2026.
• History and Hermeneutics. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• Introducing Dewey. Bloomsbury, 2024.
• Historical Imagination: Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative. Bloomsbury, 2022.
• Essays: The Philosophy Crush Podcast. Outskirts Press, 2021.
• Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change. Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Account. Co-authored with Jeff Mitscherling. Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Teachability and Learnability: Can Thinking Be Taught? Routledge, 2016.
• Death: A Philosophical Inquiry. Routledge, 2014.
• Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism. Bloomsbury, 2011.
• Education After Dewey. Bloomsbury, 2009.
• Why Democracy? State University of New York Press, 2008.
• Public/Private. Bloomsbury, 2005.
• The Ways of Power: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Social Criticism. Duquesne University Press, 2002.
• Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of Individuality. University of Toronto Press, 2000.
• Theorizing Praxis: Studies in Hermeneutical Pragmatism. Peter Lang, 2000.
• Is There a Canadian Philosophy? Reflections on the Canadian Identity. Co-authored with Gary B. Madison and Ingrid Harris. University of Ottawa Press, 2000.

Edited Books

• Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy. Co-edited with Saulius Geniusas. Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. Co-edited with Saulius Geniusas. Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Education and Conversation: Exploring Oakeshott’s Legacy. Co-edited with David Bakhurst. Bloomsbury, 2016.
• Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics. Bloomsbury, 2010.
• John Dewey and Continental Philosophy. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.