Professor Udo Schüklenk had another busy week in the media. The Federal Government is proposing legislation that will expand access to medical assistance in dying (MAID). According to Schüklenk, the changes don't go far enough.
In a blog for the BMJ's Journal of Medical Ethics, Udo Schüklenk argues that health care workers are under no obligation to treat COVID-19 patients if they are not given adequate equipment for safeguarding their own health.
Lisa Guenther, together with co-applicant Linda Mussell from Political Studies, has won a SSHRC Connection grant for the project P4W: 20 Years Later. Congratulations!
Hallie Jones, Philosophy undergraduate student, and former co-president of the Department Student Council, was accepted to the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology. Though the program won’t run in person this year, they are planning some online workshops and also offering students admission to next year’s program. Well done, Hallie!
With medical facilities becoming overburdened by a surge in COVID-19 cases, there may be a need for tough ethical decisions. Who receives life-saving care and who doesn't?
PhD candidate Lesley Jamieson is a featured expert on "Iris Murdoch and Politics", the Iris Murdoch Society's recent podcast. In this podcast, Lesley engages in a conversation with Miles Leeson alongside Gary Browning (Oxford Brookes), and Vic Seidler (Goldsmiths, London). You can listen to the podcast here.
Interviewed for Oxford University's Thinking Out Loud podcast series, Udo Schüklenk discusses whether health care workers are under an obligation to treat COVID-19 patients if they are not given adequate equipment for safeguarding their own health.
Recently, Agnes Tam passed her PhD dissertation examination, making her the first Philosophy PhD at Queen’s to defend her dissertation remotely. Bravo Dr. Tam! And well done to her supervisor, Will Kymlicka, and her committee, for all their work and support.
In 2021, Dr. Tam will begin a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Social Justice Centre, Concordia University. We wish her all the best in her bright future as a political philosopher!
Queen's University has recognized Professor David Bakhurst as a Distinguished University Professor, the university’s highest research-related honour. David has earned the title for his wide-ranging work in philosophy, from Soviet philosophy to the philosophy of psychology to the philosophy of education, and more. Congratulations, David!
This past term, Lisa Guenther taught a “Principal’s Dream Course” on Critical Perspectives on Social Diversity. The students collectively created a rich website, Our Critical Perspective, that brings together philosophical accounts of epistemic injustice, a focus on colonial structures and racial disparities in the carceral system, and attention to knowledge and justice in Ka’tarohkwi/Kingston.
