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.
The 2017 Matariki Research Ethics Conference, jointly hosted by Queen's University and the journal Bioethics, is currently running at the Bader International Study Centre. It explores the recent revisions made to two influential international research ethics guidance documents, the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki and the Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans.
Lisa Guenther has, with Abigail Levin, an op-ed in The New York Times on white nationalism in the US, 'White Power and the Fear of Replacement'. Levin and Guenther argue:
With the new Blade Runner movie, there is fresh popular interest in defining and identify boundaries between humans and non-humans. The Smithsonian magazine interviewed Deborah Knight on the question of whether emotions provide dividing lines.
The Philosophy Department had a special visitor this week when 92-year-old former instructor (Charles) Douglas Jay, came with his granddaughter, Victoria Jay (a second-year Concurrent Education student at Queen’s), and son, Garth Jay, to see the campus.
On November 22, TD Bank recognized Professor Emeritus Carlos Prado as one of today's ten most influential Hispanic Canadians. Among other things, the commendation noted:
Recent PhD student Kyle Johannsen has just published a revised version of his dissertation as a book, A Conceptual Investigation of Justice.
Under the title "An opportunity to build bridges, strengthen ties", Professor Lisa Guenther and her work are featured in the Queen's Gazette. Guenther has just arrived as the Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies, jointly appointed to Philosophy and Cultural Studies.
