2022-23

Visiting Faculty Fellows

Sameena Hasan Siddiqui, Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia

Sameena Hasan Siddiqui is a Professor and former Director at the Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She studied at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and completed her Ph.D from Arts Faculty, University of Delhi. Her area of specialization is socio-cultural history of Medieval India with special focus on Sufism.

Emily McWilliams, Philosophy, Duke Kunshan University

Emily McWilliams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University, in Kunshan, China. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 2016. Her main research interests are in epistemic normativity, and social and political epistemology. During her time at the Centre for Ethics, she will be working on issues related to epistemic injustice and political epistemology.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Federica Berdini (she/they), PhD, Philosophy, University of Bologna

Federica’s research focuses on human agency and its societal and interpersonal recognition and attribution, and brings together ethics, philosophical and moral psychology, as well as feminist and social philosophy. In particular, she is interested in cases of agency exercised in non-ideal conditions or by ‘imperfect’ agents. Her most recent project, titled “The Nature and Ethics of Coping”, provides a philosophical account of the psychological phenomena of coping with stressful, traumatic, and challenging situations, and explores the ethical dimensions of such situations. Previously, Federica has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique in Montréal and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She is also co-founder of the Italian Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP Italia), where she served as member of the Executive Board and as coordinator of a mentoring program for women in philosophy.

Sarah (Sadie) Warren, PhD, Philosophy, Emory University

Sarah is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Ethics. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Emory University, where her dissertation examined philosophical contributions to thinking through the environmental crisis and its relationship to self-world understanding, moving between eco-phenomenology, new materialism, and American pragmatism (especially the naturalistic metaphysics of John Dewey). Alongside this research, Sarah has a strong interest in supporting interdisciplinary, public-inclusive, and digital scholarship projects. Working within programs and organizations like the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Philosophers for Sustainability, and Common Good Atlanta, she strives to mobilize humanistic study in service of the worldly experiences and concerns that undergird and suffuse it.

Doctoral Fellows in Ethics

Spencer Albert, PhD Candidate, Philosophy
Bowen Chan, PhD Candidate, Philosophy
Jovy Chan, PhD Candidate, Philosophy
Joseph Dattilo, PhD Candidate, Political Science
Logan Gates, PhD Candidate, Political Science
Felix Lambrecht, PhD Candidate, Philosophy
Kate Mitchell, SJD Candidate, Law
Megan Pfiffer, SJD Candidate, Law
Jared Riggs, PhD Candidate, Philosophy

Undergraduate Fellows in Ethics

Radheesh Ameresekere, Philosophy
Awa Hanane Diagne, Anthropology, Equity Studies, Gender Studies
Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau, Ethics, Society, & Law, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
James Ralph, Philosophy, Bioethics

Race, Ethics, and Power Research Associates and Fellows

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2021-22

Virtual Visiting Scholars

Postdoctoral Fellows

Benjamin Davis (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics), Philosophy, Emory University

My research considers the responsibilities of elite actors today. My publications speak to the quotidian decisions of pre-professional and college-educated actors. Daily practices are always tied to divisions of labor across the globe (who sewed those chinos?) and within cities (who pulls espresso and sweeps donut crumbs?). I am interested in the orientations and pressures that entangle elite actors in a glass-paneled environment and the ruptures and challenges that invite them to — or demand that they — get out of it.

Juliette Ferry-Danini (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, 2020-21), Philosophy, Sorbonne Université

I am a philosopher of medicine interested in conceptual, epistemological and ethical questions about medicine and science in general.

Ori Freiman (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, 2021-22), Science & Technology Studies, Bar-Ilan University

I have a formal background in analytic philosophy (BA) and information science (MA). I have submitted my Ph.D. thesis to the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar-Ilan University, about the role of knowledge in forming trust in technology. My current research explores issues of trust and ethics in AI. I do so by focusing on emerging and disrupting AI-based technologies, and by engaging with contemporary discourses in philosophy of technology, social epistemology, and science & technology studies (STS).

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

Rebecca Livernois (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow), Philosophy, University of British Columbia

Rebecca Livernois works in the areas of environmental philosophy and the philosophy of economics. Her research centres on conceptual and methodological issues with economic approaches to environmental problems, including market-based policies and cost-benefit analyses. Her current project is on the philosophy of climate economics with a focus on climate policy recommendations established in economic models.

Doctoral Fellows in Ethics

Aden Dur-e-Aden, PhD Candidate, Political Science
Henry Krahn, PhD Candidate, Philosophy

Undergraduate Fellows in Ethics

Syed Faateh Ali, Philosophy
Cheryl Cheung, Political Science, American Studies (Ethics of AI Fellow)
Evan Kanter, Computer Science, Ethics, Society and Law (Ethics of AI Fellow)
Ariel LaFayette, Philosophy, Cognitive Science

Ethics of AI Lab Affiliates and Research Fellows

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Race, Ethics, and Power Research Associates and Fellows

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2020-21

Virtual Visiting Scholars

Teresa Heffernan, English, Saint Mary’s University

I explore the ethical and existential questions that emerge from the entanglement of the science and the fiction of robotics/AI. I am interested in why science uses fiction even as it marginalizes the literary imagination in discussions of a technological future, why the animal is so often problematically collapsed with the machine, and how the categories and narratives about robots and animals differently produce the human. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, I take seriously the borders between fiction and science and argue that the “ethical impulse” that emerges from a literary training in the imagination is useful preparation for thinking about new technologies.

Morag Kersel, Anthropology, DePaul University

Professor Kersel is an archaeologist with a doctorate from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a master of Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age of the eastern Mediterranean and Levant, cultural heritage protection, the built environment, object biographies, museums, and archaeological tourism. Her work combines archaeological, archival and oral history research in order to understand the efficacy of cultural heritage law in protecting archaeological landscapes from looting.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Benjamin Davis (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics), Philosophy, Emory University

Juliette Ferry-Danini (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence), Philosophy, Sorbonne Université

I am a philosopher of medicine interested in conceptual, epistemological and ethical questions about medicine and science in general.

Doctoral Fellows in Ethics

Amanda Greer, PhD Candidate, Cinema Studies
Miriam Hird-Younger, PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Undergraduate Fellows in Ethics

Marley Greenberg, Health Studies, Philosophy, Bioethics
Alex Heyman, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Philosophy
Tsitsi Macherera, Ethics, Society and Law
Nicole Vucemilo, History and Ethics, Society, and Law

Ethics of AI Lab Affiliates and Graduate Research Fellows

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Race, Ethics, and Power Research Associates and Fellows

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2019-20

Visiting Scholars

Tom Angier, Philosophy, University of Cape Town

My core interests lie in Aristotelian and Neo-Aristotelian ethical theory. While I have written on Aristotle’s ethics per se, I am also and increasingly interested in applying Aristotle’s ethics and metaphysics to current ethical debates. The kind of naturalism espoused by Aristotle affords an invaluable resource for contemporary reflection, even if, in the process, his insights and arguments must be reconfigured.

Megan Blomfield, Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Megan is a political philosopher whose work focuses on global justice and the environment. Her current research concerns rights to land and natural resources in the context of climate change.

Teresa Heffernan, English, Saint Mary’s University

Ida Koivisto, Law, University of Helsinki

Ida Koivisto is an assistant professor of public law. Her research interests cover administrative and constitutional law, legal theory and socio-legal studies. She is particularly interested in the relationship between law and other normative systems in society. She is currently working on a project on the ideal of transparency and its theoretical preconditions. She is about to embark on a new project on law and algorithmic transparency.

Gottfried Schweiger, Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Gottfried is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. He works in social and political philosophy, with a particular focus on poverty, social and global justice, migration (refugees) and childhood. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with his former colleague Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood: “A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty” (2015) and “Ethics and the Endangerment of Children’s Bodies” (2017), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Gottfried is also co-founding editor of the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty. He is also Associate Editor of the open access journal Palgrave Communications and member of the Advisory Board of the journal on_education.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Elena Comay del Junco (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics), Committee on Social Thought & Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

Elena is completing her PhD in the Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary research areas are in the history of philosophy–more particularly on Aristotle–as well as in contemporary social and political philosophy–specifically issues of racial justice. She has also published historical research on race and medicine and has interests in Islamic philosophy and feminist theory.

Igor Shoikhedbrod (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence), PhD, Political Science, University of Toronto

Igor’s research is principally concerned with the future of work and considerations of distributive justice in the face of increased automation and generalized reliance on intelligent machine learning. Igor’s broader research interests in the ethics of AI draw upon the rich nexus of political theory and critical political economy. Igor obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2018, his M.A in Political Science from York University in 2011, and he also holds a B.A from the University of Toronto with a concentration in Ethics, Society, and Law. His doctoral thesis examined the relationship between rights discourse and economic inequality in capitalist democracies though a reconstruction of Karl Marx’s critique of classical liberalism. A revised version of Igor’s doctoral thesis is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan under the title of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights.

Doctoral Fellows in Ethics

Natasha Hay, PhD Candidate, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

Natasha Hay is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature who is pursuing a disciplinary specialization in Philosophy and a collaborative program in Jewish Studies. Her doctoral
research is concerned with a constellation of concepts in the field of education that Walter Benjamin articulates in his reflections on the German youth movement. Her dissertation lays out a counter-pedagogical relation emergent in study as an ethical practice that helps to shape Benjamin’s historiographical method. Her secondary research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century German thought, French post-structuralism and deconstruction, and the relationship between literature and philosophy. Some research interests she is eager to explore at the C4E: historical changes in urban spaces and utopian imaginaries; the ethics of untranslatability and the geopolitics of translation; ethical modes of representing suffering and violence across image, text, and other media.

Emma McClure, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

My research explores the ethics of conversation. My most recent publication, “Theorizing a Spectrum of Aggression: Microaggressions, Creepiness, and Sexual Assault” (Pluralist, 2019) explains what is aggressive about verbal microaggressions. In my dissertation, I turn to the question of whether we are blameworthy for microaggressions. Traditionally, we only blame people when they intentionally cause harm, whereas microaggressions are often committed unintentionally and may only become noticeably harmful after numerous repetitions. I use legal theory to model how perpetrators could be liable for these unintentional and non-immediately damaging actions. Finally, I consider the under-explored role of microaffirmations—small supports that accumulate into very positive impacts when repeated over a lifetime. Privileged people receive these benefits constantly; marginalized people deserve the same supports. Please see my website (emma-mcclure.com) for more on my research and teaching in Feminist Ethics.

Undergraduate Fellows in Ethics

Matias Gutierrez Ramirez

Matias’ main interest is in environmental ethics with particular emphasis on sustainability and climate change. He is currently pursuing a double major in Ethics, Society, and Law, and English at Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Nicholas Slawnych

Nicholas’ main research interests lie in metaethics and ethical representation in fiction. He is especially interested in the question of why people choose to do the right thing, and he currently studies Philosophy, Ethics, Society and Law, and Russian Literature at Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Ethics of AI Graduate Research Fellows

Mohamed Abdalla is a PhD student in the Natural Language Processing Group (Department of Computer Science) at the University of Toronto and a Vanier scholar, advised by Professor Frank Rudzicz and Professor Graeme Hirst. Affiliated with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, his research interests fall at the intersection of artificial intelligence and clinical medicine. A large portion of his work involves quantifying existing biases, and formalizing notions of fairness and other ethical principles in the context of clinical applications. He is also working to extend and deploy many of these approaches to other disciplines, with an ultimate goal of developing a cross-field generalizable framework.

Suzanne van Geuns is a third-year doctoral student in the Department for the Study of Religion. Suzanne’s doctoral research in the study of religion investigates how rightwing antifeminists instrumentalise the internet to uphold specific truths about men, women, and their differences. As an anthropologist of religion, Suzanne approaches the normative descriptively, asking what it feels like to use the internet in the aspiration to live by gender essentialist principles. She has a particular interest in how past visions for the future of internet technology – to which artificial intelligence was always key – inform its instrumentalisations today. At the Ethics of AI Lab, she will develop her work on ‘seduction’ forums catering to men and so-called biblical womanhood bloggers, using the lens of AI to surface how these online subcultures strive to ‘artificialise’ human social intelligence, aligning the self with the truth by becoming more like a computer in flawlessly acting on its commands.

VInyas Harish is a third-year MD/PhD student at the University of Toronto. He is a graduate of the Biomedical Computing program at Queen’s University, and has recently began his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. He is also a Doctoral Fellow in the University of Toronto’s Collaborative Specialization in Global Health. During his preclerkship medical training, Vinyas co-founded the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Student Society (@aimss_uoft) and became interested in the role of machine learning for population-level risk prediction and preparedness for global health emergencies. At the Centre for Ethics, he is interested in the development of a framework for ethical AI applications in public/global health and exploring the role of public-private partnerships in developing AI ‘solutions’ for healthcare.

2018-2019

Visiting Scholars

Benjamin Berger, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Professor Berger’s areas of teaching and research specialization are criminal and constitutional law and theory, law and religion, and the law of evidence. He holds an appointment as an Associate Professor (status only) in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and is a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Socio-Legal Studies at York University.

Beatriz Barreiro Carril, Lecturer of International Law, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid

Beatriz is interested in the links between International Law and other Social Sciences and Humanities as well as in applied research with a particular focus on human rights, especially cultural rights. She was guest researcher of the Department of Law & Anthropology at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle and visiting researcher at the Institute of Public International and European Law at the University of Göttingen.

Patti Tamara Lenard, Associate Professor of Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa

Patti’s research interests include democratic theory, global justice, solidarity and migration, nationalism, multiculturalism, and trust, as well as history of political and social theory.

Ahmed Meguid, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion at Syracuse University

Ahmed’s research interests include that of Islamic thought [philosophy and theology]; late 18th, 19th, and early 20th century German philosophy (Kant, German Idealism, Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger).

Atsushi Moriya, BA, Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo.

His main research interest is in the field of business ethics in Japan as seen through the lens of the Chinese classics, the philosophies of Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu, and the writings of Shibusawa Eiichi; at the Centre he intends to examine the roots of the recent increase in interest in Chinese philosophy and the morality of Shibusawa Eiichi in western academia as well as to engage in a comparative analysis of terms such as virtue (徳, toku in Japanese and dé in Chinese) within the broader context of the relationship between Confucian and Western conceptions of virtue.

Kimmo Nuotio, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Helsinki; Dean of Law, University of Helsinki (2010-17)

Kimmo Nuotio’s central research topics include: Theoretical Foundations of Penal Liability, Modernization of Criminal Law, Nordic, European, and International Criminal Law, Transnationalization of Criminal Law, European Legal Integration, Risk Society / Welfare State / Security, Political Philosophy and Law, Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity, and Researcher Skills and Research Ethics.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Rachel E. Cristy (Centre for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow), PhD, Philosophy, Princeton University

Rachel’s research interests are in the history of late modern philosophy, beginning with Kant and tracing his influence through early neo-Kantianism to certain late 19th century figures who are not typically thought of as successors to Kant: Nietzsche and the American Pragmatists, particularly William James. She is especially interested in late modern philosophers’ attitudes toward science, including both epistemological views (on its methods, its limitations, what sort of philosophical foundation it has or needs) and ethical views (on the proper place of science in the life of individuals and societies). Her most recent work is on Nietzsche’s and James’s objections to scientism: the attitude that science is the most valuable human enterprise and can answer any question worth asking.

Étienne Brown (Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow)

Étienne is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at the Montreal-based Centre de recherche en éthique (or CRÉ), where he co-directed the “Éthique et politique” research axis in the winter of 2018. He also teaches in the philosophy department of the Université de Montréal, and serves as the secretary of the Société de philosophie du Québec. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and, before that, Attaché d’enseignement et de recherche (Research and Teaching Fellow) at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he completed his PhD in 2016.

Postdoctoral Associates

Hilary Evans Cameron, Visiting Associate, Centre for Ethics

Hilary’s research explores decision-making in the refugee determination context with a focus on credibility assessment.

Clifton Mark, PhD Political Theory, Cambridge University

Clifton’s research operates at the nexus of political philosophy, intellectual history, and the analysis of concrete social practices.

Jaby Mathew, PhD Political Science, University of Toronto

Jaby’s research focuses on modern Indian thought, contemporary democratic theory, and postcolonial theory with particular attention to the ethics of comparison and translation.

Stephanie J. Silverman, Adjunct Professor, Trinity College; SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Ottawa

Stephanie’s sociolegal research on immigration enforcement focuses mainly on detention practices in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Doctoral Fellows in Ethics

John Enman-Beech, SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Jack’s research explores the use of contractual and non-contractual ethical frames in the fields of employment, consumer, and tenancy law. Interdisciplines include critical, feminist, and economic legal theory. Also writes about how to live with animals.

Thilo Schaefer, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Thilo’s research examines normative questions in urban politics through the perspective of utopia. His current focus is on the political and philosophical issues raised by the emergence of the smart city. He also has broader academic interests in distributive justice, property rights, and citizenship.

Undergraduate Fellows in Ethics

Jayun Bae

Jayun’s main interests are in intersectional bioethics, particularly with regard to healthcare in the digital age, access to treatment, and emerging biotechnology. She is pursuing a double major in Neuroscience and Philosophy at Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

Zara Narain

Zara’s research interests are in the ethics of storytelling, oppression, and bioethics. She is interested in studying the stories our bodies tell and how these stories are disseminated or silenced.

Ethics of AI Graduate Research Fellows

Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Ph.D. in mathematics (Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal), Ph.D. candidate in philosophy of science (University of Toronto)

Most of Atoosa’s work relates to the philosophy of science, philosophy and ethics of technology, and epistemology. She especially like to think about the varieties of scientific explanations in sciences, mathematical explanations in mathematics, and the ways artificial intelligence can explain the reasons for its decisions. She is currently working on two projects: the first is a collaborative work at Women’s college research institute for examination of various philosophical aspects of responsible innovation on AI and health; the second is to understand a realistic picture of the potential ethical challenges that arise from the development of AI. During academic year 2018-2019, she will teach two courses: a block seminar on “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” at LMU, Germany, and her own course “HPS302-philosophy of technology” at the University of Toronto. You can find more about Atoosa in her personal website: http://kasirzadeh.org/

Nishila Mehta is a first year medical student at the University of Toronto, and a recent graduate of York University’s Global Health program with a specialization in eHealth. She has diverse interests in health technology, quality improvement and health equity and has explored these through leading several research projects at Women’s College Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital in the past. She aspires to spend her time at the Center for Ethics exploring the ethical and social implications of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, with a specific interests in Ai’s impact on medical education and global health inequities.In the future, Nishila aspires to pursue a career as a clinician-researcher and become a leader in the Canadian health technology sector.

Michael Motala, BA Hons. (University of Toronto), MSc (London School of Economics), JD (Osgoode Hall Law School), MA (Columbia University), PhD Student (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)

Michael’s research interests lie at the intersection of law, economics, political science, and pragmatist moral philosophy. He is currently working on two concurrent projects: the first reimagines extant theories of corporate social responsibility and business ethics as they apply to the emergent platform economy, comprised of firms like Uber, Airbnb, Apple, Google, and Amazon; the second examines the political economy of global tax governance in the Atlantic economies, with a particular focus on the implications of global tax base erosion for national income inequalities, and by extension the fiscal social contract underpinning the modern liberal welfare state.

2017-2018

Visiting Scholars

Francois du Bois, B.A. LL.B., Stellenbosch; M.A. B.C.L. Oxford. Professor of Law & Head of School, School of Law, University of Leicester.
His recent research concentrates on three intersecting themes: theoretical reflection on the concepts and doctrines of private law, the structure of South Africa’s post-1994 legal system and its institutions in historical perspective, and the jurisprudential evaluation of the tension between private and public modes of redress for individual injuries. His recent research concentrates on three intersecting themes: theoretical reflection on the concepts and doctrines of private law, the structure of South Africa’s post-1994 legal system and its institutions in historical perspective, and the jurisprudential evaluation of the tension between private and public modes of redress for individual injuries.
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Antje du Bois-Pedain, MJur. Oxford; Dr. iur. Berlin. Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge; Deputy Director, Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics (Institute of Criminology).
Her main research interests are in the fields of criminal law, transitional justice, legal theory and medical law. She has published widely on criminal law and criminal justice ethics, transitional justice and penal theory. Her main research interests are in the fields of criminal law, transitional justice, legal theory and medical law. She has published widely on criminal law and criminal justice ethics, transitional justice and penal theory.
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John-Stewart Gordon, MA, Konstanz (2001); Ph.D., Göttingen (2005). Full Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Research Cluster for Applied Ethics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.
He works at the intersection of ethics/moral philosophy, social- and political philosophy, and human rights. His current research project on moral expertise is funded by the Straniak Foundation and enables him to conduct his research at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford (9-11.2017), the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto (1-4.2018), and at An Foras Feasa at Maynooth University (7-9.2018). He works at the intersection of ethics/moral philosophy, social- and political philosophy, and human rights. His current research project on moral expertise is funded by the Straniak Foundation and enables him to conduct his research at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford (9-11.2017), the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto (1-4.2018), and at An Foras Feasa at Maynooth University (7-9.2018).
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Richard Moon, B.A. (Hons), Trent (1978); LL.B., Queen’s (1981); B.C.L., Oxford (1984). Professor of Law, University of Windsor.
His research focuses on freedom of expression and freedom of conscience and religion. He has written extensively about freedom of expression and freedom of religion, publishing more than fifty articles and book chapters in Canada and abroad. His research focuses on freedom of expression and freedom of conscience and religion. He has written extensively about freedom of expression and freedom of religion, publishing more than fifty articles and book chapters in Canada and abroad.
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Atsushi Moriya, BA, Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo.
His main research interest is in the field of business ethics in Japan as seen through the lens of the Chinese classics, the philosophies of Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu, and the writings of Shibusawa Eiichi; at the Centre he intends to examine the roots of the recent increase in interest in Chinese philosophy and the morality of Shibusawa Eiichi in western academia as well as to engage in a comparative analysis of terms such as virtue (徳, toku in Japanese and dé in Chinese) within the broader context of the relationship between Confucian and Western conceptions of virtue. His main research interest is in the field of business ethics in Japan as seen through the lens of the Chinese classics, the philosophies of Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu, and the writings of Shibusawa Eiichi; at the Centre he intends to examine the roots of the recent increase in interest in Chinese philosophy and the morality of Shibusawa Eiichi in western academia as well as to engage in a comparative analysis of terms such as virtue (徳, toku in Japanese and dé in Chinese) within the broader context of the relationship between Confucian and Western conceptions of virtue.

Amber Riaz, B.Phil. Oxford; D.Phil. Oxford; B.Sc (Hons) LUMS. Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Her research interests are moral epistemology, general epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science and social science, and philosophy of mind. Her research interests are moral epistemology, general epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science and social science, and philosophy of mind.
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Aaron Ancell, B.A. (Hons.) Simon Fraser (2011); Ph.D., Philosophy, Duke University (exp 2017); Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto.
Aaron’s primary research interests lie in ethics and political philosophy. His current work focuses on political disagreement, polarization, and the epistemic merits of democracy. Aaron’s primary research interests lie in ethics and political philosophy. His current work focuses on political disagreement, polarization, and the epistemic merits of democracy.
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Thomas Ferretti, Ph.D. Philosophy, Louvain (2016).
He specializes in political philosophy, distributive justice and economic ethics. His current research focuses on inequalities and the regulation of economic organizations. He specializes in political philosophy, distributive justice and economic ethics. His current research focuses on inequalities and the regulation of economic organizations.
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Ryan Liss, B.A. (Hons) Toronto (2007); J.D. Toronto (2011); LL.M. Yale (2013). J.S.D. candidate, Yale Law School.
Ryan Liss works in public international law and criminal law, examining the ways in which human rights both construct and constrain state power. He has previously published in the areas of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and the law concerning the use of force. Ryan Liss works in public international law and criminal law, examining the ways in which human rights both construct and constrain state power. He has previously published in the areas of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and the law concerning the use of force.
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Postdoctoral Associates

Hilary Evans Cameron, B.A. (Hons) McGill (1998), LL.B. Osgoode Hall (2001), called to the Ontario Bar (2003), S.J.D. University of Toronto (2016).
Her research explores decision-making in the refugee determination context with a focus on credibility assessment. Her research explores decision-making in the refugee determination context with a focus on credibility assessment.
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Mara Marin, Ph.D. Political Science, University of Chicago.
Her research interests are in feminist theory, social theory, social contract tradition, theories of justice, oppression, domination gender subordination authority, political obligation and history of political thought. Her research interests are in feminist theory, social theory, social contract tradition, theories of justice, oppression, domination gender subordination authority, political obligation and history of political thought.

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