eFORUM (feat. Sandro Ambuehl) [☛ Event]

BRIDGING ETHICS AND ECONOMICS: INCENTIVES FOR REPUGNANT TRANSACTIONS
Sandro Ambuehl
Department of Management UTSC &
Rotman School of Management

Economists often espouse incentives, since they can lead to desirable outcomes simply by enlarging the set of voluntary choices available. Becker and Elias (2007), for instance, argue that allowing incentives for living organ donation would be a Pareto-improvement. Ethicists, by contrast, are typically queasy about incentives, in particular as they apply to transactions like organ donation, medical trial participation, or surrogate motherhood. Continue reading →

eFORUM (feat. George Elliott Clarke, Laura Menard, Norman Ravvin & Leo Zaibert) [☛ Event] [☛ eVideos]

KADDISH FOR LEONARD COHEN
George Elliott Clarke
E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature, University of Toronto, Department of English & Parliamentary Poet Laureate

Kaddish for Leonard Cohen
(à la manière d’Allen Ginsberg)

This terrible, irritable dawn—
This morning of Mourning—
His obituary crowbars apart
Prophecy and Nostalgia…. Continue reading →

eFORUM (feat. Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Emma Planinc & Simon Stern) [☛ Event]

THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF READING
Eva-Lynn Jagoe
Professor of Comparative Literature & Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto

I have two things to say about ethics and literature, and when I think about them, I sometimes don’t know how to square the circle of my strongly held assertions. I’ll try to do it here. So, the first one: Continue reading →

eFORUM (feat. Mariana Valverde) [☛ Event]

THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE PROBLEM OF SCALE
Mariana Valverde
Professor, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

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eFORUM (feat. Rachel Barney, Lauren Bialystok & Simon Stern) [☛ Event]

ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR ACADEMICS: A USER’S GUIDE
Rachel Barney
Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy, Departments of Classics & Philosophy, University of Toronto

I’m truly grateful to the Centre for Ethics, Markus Dubber, my very insightful fellow panelists, and the audience for the opportunity to think through all this together. For me it was a really fascinating and helpful event. Continue reading →

eFORUM (feat. Craig Scott & Avvy Go) [☛ Event] [☛ eVideos]

photo courtesy Ruby Sahota, MP

POLITICAL ETHICS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ELECTORAL REFORM PROCESS: FOUR DIMENSIONS
Craig Scott
Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University;
former Member of Parliament for Toronto-Danforth (2012-2015)

As befits an event hosted by the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics, I would like to help frame today’s panel discussion with a brief overview of some of the ethical dimensions Continue reading →

eFORUM (feat. John Paul Ricco, Patrick Keilty & Kyle Kirkup)

SEX LIVES MATTER*
John Paul Ricco
Comparative Literature, Art History, Visual Culture
University of Toronto

Yesterday (Nov. 25, 2016) I was one of four invited speakers for a roundtable discussion on policing sexuality, cruising and anonymous public sex, and police entrapment. This flash event, “Project Marie: Policing Sexuality in Law, Ethics, Policy,” was organized and sponsored by Continue reading →