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Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Artist
eVIDEOS [☛ Event]
George Elliott Clarke
Leonardo Augusto Zaibert
Laura Menard, Introduction
VIVA! Singers, “So Long, Marianne”
Leonardo Augusto Zaibert
Laura Menard, Introduction
VIVA! Singers, “So Long, Marianne”
Norman Ravvin
George Elliott Clarke, “Kaddish”
VIVA! Singers, “Bird on the Wire”
Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Arts
George Elliott Clarke, “Kaddish”
VIVA! Singers, “Bird on the Wire”
Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Arts
The Ethics and Economics of Incentivizing the Uninformed
eFORUM (feat. Sandro Ambuehl) [☛ Event]
BRIDGING ETHICS AND ECONOMICS: INCENTIVES FOR REPUGNAN
T 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
C4E’s Ethics and the Artist series celebrates Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen: Ethics and the Artist
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
The Ethics of Ethics and Literature
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
Author Meets Critics: Margaret Kohn, The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth (Oxford 2016)
eFORUM (feat. Mariana Valverde) [☛ Event]
THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE PROBLEM OF SCALE
Mariana Valverde
Professor, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto
My first point is not central in the book itself, at least explicitly; but it has important implications the context of our city and our university. I refer to Peggy’s healthy skepticism towards today’s dominant urban/urbanist agenda, that identified with the phrase ‘creative cities’.
Anti-Authoritarian Professional Ethics for Academics: Doing the Right Thing in the Era of Trump
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
How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada
Centre for Ethics panelist publishes remarks on electoral reform as op-ed
In this op-ed in the Toronto Star, Avvy Go, panelist at C4E’s Public Issues Forum “How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada” (Dec. 9, 2016), argues that for racialized communities, electoral reform is about more than voting: “We have an opportunity to engage Canadians in a discussion of our democracy — a dialogue with each other on not only the technical aspect of voting, but the kind of society we want to live in.”
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U of T’s Centre for Ethics takes mandate of open discussion to heart with public events
How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada
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