As of July 1, the Centre for Ethics has a new director: Professor Simone Chambers from the Department of Political Science.

Her bio: Simone Chambers is a Professor of Political Science specializing in Political Theory. She received her BA from McGill University and her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 2002. Her primary areas of scholarship include democratic theory, ethics,secularism, rhetoric, civility and the public sphere. She is presently working on a project entitled An Ethics of Public Discourse.

Joint Conference

Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11, 2014

Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Program

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship to be held at the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics during the 2014-15 academic year. We welcome candidates with substantial normative research interests from diverse backgrounds including philosophy, law, and the social sciences. We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in theories of distributive justice, moral psychology, or ethics in cross-cultural perspective, but we welcome all applicants with a strong interest in normative theory.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Normative Theory

“Fair or Unfair?: A Discussion of Proposed Changes to the Electoral Act”

A discussion featuring Peter Loewen, Melissa Williams and Nelson Wiseman

To be held at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto on Thursday, March 20th

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Seminar talk
Monday, March 17, 2014
4:00 – 6:00 pm

Larkin Building, Room 200
15 Devonshire Place

Patchen Markell
Associate Professor of Political Science
The University of Chicago
http://home.uchicago.edu/~pmarkell/

Thursday, March 13, 2014
2:00 – 6:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Program:

Chair: Arthur Ripstein (Toronto)
14:00 – 15:10: Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers): ‘Illuminating Egalitarianism’

15:10 -15:30 – Break

Chair: Kerah Gordon-Solomon (Queens)
15:30 – 16:40: Cynthia Stark (Utah): ‘Rescuing the Pareto Argument’
16:40 – 17:50: Thomas Christiano (Arizona): ‘Rationality, Equal Status, and Egalitarianism’

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Friday, March 14, 2014
8:50 am – 5:30 pm
Combination Room
Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue

Program:

Chair: Lauren Bialystok (Toronto)
8:50 – 10:00: Deborah Hellman (Virginia): ‘Two Faces of Equality’
10:00 – 11:10: Sophia Moreau (Toronto): ‘Equality in the Law: What Kind of Value does Non-Discrimination Have?’

11:10 – 11:25: Break

Chair: Jennifer Gibson (Toronto)
11:25 – 12:35 Nir Eyal (Harvard): ‘Inequality in Political Philosophy and in Epidemiology: A Re-Marriage’

12:35 – 13:30 – Lunch Break

Chair: Louis Philippe-Hodgson (York)
13:30 – 14:40: Daniel M. Hausman (Madison, Wisconsin): ‘Could Equality (or Priority) Be Intrinsically Valuable?’
14:40-15:50: Peter Vallentyne (Columbia, Missouri) (with Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics): ‘Paretian Egalitarianism and Transitivity’

15:50 – 16:10 Break

Chair: Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
16:10 – 17:20: Richard J. Arneson (UC San Diego): ‘Basic Equality, Substantive Equality, Consequentialism, and Priority’

In Due Course: induecourse.ca

Featuring the Director of the Centre for Ethics, Joseph Heath, as well as Catherine Dauvergne, Daniel Weinstock, Colin McLeod and Jocelyn Maclure.

“The Right to Mobility: Mass Urban Transit and Socio-Spatial Justice”

Theresa Enright
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto

Wednesday, February 26th
12 noon – 2:00 pm

Room LA200
Larkin Building, 2nd Floor
15 Devonshire Place

Political Theory Research Workshop

Friday, February 7, 2014

March 13 – 14, 2014
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

To register:

EqualityProgram

Mon, Jan 20, 2014
Seminar Talk
On Valuing Moral Disagreement

David Wong 
Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy
Duke University

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place