Udo Schüklenk has published an op-ed piece in the June 20 Globe and Mail, under the heading "Canada’s assisted-dying legislation is unconstitutional – now what?" He takes strong issue with the Liberal government's new assisted-dying legislation, for failing to meet the minimum conditions that the Supreme Court set out.
Professor Jacalyn Duffin has an op-ed on medical miracles in today's New York Times: 'Pondering Miracles, Medical and Religious'. In it, she describes her medical testimony at the Vatican, as part of the canonization hearings for Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. That experience led Jackie to start studying the role of medical miracles in canonizations more generally, leading to two of her books of the past decade.
Professor David Bakhurst has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest honours for Canadian academics. David is being recognized for his many contributions to philosophy, in areas as diverse Russian philosophy, philosophical psychology and philosophy of education.
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).
