Recent PhD Jason Millar has been appointed Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ottawa. This chair will enable Jason to further develop his interdisciplinary research, bringing ethics and policy considerations to bear on the engineering of emerging robotics and AI.
Nancy Salay has been appointed incoming Editor of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophy Review, the official journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Dialogue is a broad journal, open to all branches of philosophy, which makes the job as Editor a challenging one. In her new role, Nancy has exciting ideas about how the journal can draw on the vitality
Recent Queen's PhD Yual Chiek has just accepted a permanent position at St John's University in NYC. He will be an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy there, starting on September 1. Yual works on Early Modern Philosophy, focusing especially on the ideas of compossibility and pre-established harmony in the work of G.W.F. Leibniz. He has co-edited two volumes and has published a number of articles and chapters on these topics.
Congratulations to Yual!
Kerah Gordon-Solmon's new variant of the Trolley Problem, explained in her Pea Soup post "Trolley Follies", has attracted a number of comments and questions. The post won PEA Soup's July Normative Ethics Prize. PEA (Philosophy, Ethics, Academia) Soup is a well-known blog publishing philosophical essays and ideas.
Will Kymlicka, Professor and Canada's Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's, has been appointed, with Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology at Berkeley, as co-director of a 5-year, $5 million program, "Boundaries, Membership & Belonging", under
The Royal Society of Canada has announced some new appointments of Philosophy Department members.
Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's, has received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's (SSHRC) highest research honour, the Gold Medal.
The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike. Will has won the medal for his groundbreaking work on the link between democracy and diversity which has advanced knowledge on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies.
PhD Candidate Michael Tremblay has recently published two papers:
“Akrasia in Epictetus: A Comparison with Aristotle”, Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science (Forthcoming).
“Digestion and Moral Progress in Epictetus”, Journal of Ancient Philosophy 13(1): 100-119.
For more information on Michael's work, visit his website.
In the past few years, the Department of Philosophy has added a number of permanent faculty. We're introducing them one by one through short interviews. Today we meet Lisa Guenther.
How did you become interested in philosophy? And then what happened to make you realize that you were on the path to becoming a philosopher?
Rahul Kumar was on Ontario Today talking about the ethical dimensions of the Don Cherry affair, including the moral norms of friendship.
