Ethics, Society and Law Students’ Association Academic Seminar
Thursday, November 28
1 – 3 pm
End-of-Life Care: Ethics and the Law
Guest lecturer: Wayne Sumner

Political Theory Research Workshop
Friday, November 29
12 noon – 1:30 pm
The Democratic Continuum: Edified Beasts and Political Animals
Presenter: Emma Planinc

Manuscript Workshop
Friday, November 29
2 – 5 pm
A Political Theory of Territory
by Margaret Moore (Queens University)
Chair: Simone Chambers, Department of Political Science, U of T
Panelists:
Margaret (Peggy) Kohn, Department of Political Science, U of T
Loren King, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
Daniel Weinstock, McGill University

There’s no Bathing in the River Styx: The problem of Rule-Manipulation in Adversarial and Non-Adversarial Schemes

Dominic Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics

November 27, 2013
12 noon – 2 pm

Seminar Talk, Ethics and the Public Interest
The Canadian One Percent

Stephen Gordon
Department of Economics, Université Laval

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

The For-Profit Misnomer in Canadian Corporate Law

Carol Liao
SJD Candidate, University of Toronto Law
and PhD Student, UBC Law (Joint Program)

Abstract:

Banning Religious Clothing? The Quebec Charter of Secular Values: What’s It All About?

5:30 pm – 7 pm
Wednesday, November 6

U of T Multi-Faith Centre
596 Spadina Avenue, Room KP 113 (1st Floor)

Join Prof. Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Law School, Prof. Ruth Marshall, Study of Religion, U of T, Prof. Simone Chambers, Pol. Sci., U of T, Ayesha Valliani, Grad Student, Study of Religion, U of T, in a moderated discussion of the Quebec Charter of Values with Prof. Pamela Klassen, Director, Religion in the Public Sphere programme, U of T.

Explore issues of state neutrality and religious accommodation vis a vis the proposed legislation of the Quebec’s Charter of Values. The proposed Charter includes banning public sector workers, including teachers and all civil servants from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols. This includes: hijabs, turbans, and large crosses.

https://www.facebook.com/events/230035077155696/

From Now and to Eternity: Prioritarianism and Time

Shlomi Segall
The Political Science Department and PPE
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mon, Nov 4, 2013, 4-6 pm
LA200

Absract:

What is the temporal unit of prioritarianism? The paper argues against complete-life prioritarianism and in favor of priority to those who are worse off at any given time-slice. With regard to equality, in contrast, we must adopt the opposite position, namely, we must be concerned with, and only with, complete lives. I propose to search for the temporal unit of prioritarianism by outlining five distinguishing features of the view (not meant as an exhaustive list). Prioritarianism is: an other-things-being-equal, non-comparative view that is concerned with aggregating an impersonal value that applies both inter-personally as well as intra-personally. I shall then assess the implications of these five features for time. I will attempt to show that prioritarianism cannot apply to anything longer than time slices. The paper concludes, however, that the implications of priority and time are no objection to prioritarianism, but that they do constitute an objection to what one might term anti-egalitarian prioritarianism. We ought, in sum, be prioritarians about time-slices, and egalitarians about complete lives.

“Empathy and Political Preferences”

Peter Loewen
Director, Centre for the Study of the United States
Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Toronto

Wednesday, Oct. 30,
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Panel: Translations of Freedom: Gandhian Antecedents

Richard Sorabji, Oxford
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia
Ramin Jahanbegloo, York
Brad Inwood, Toronto

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Richard Sorabji
Wolfson College, Oxford University
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Daniel Turp
Professor, Université de Montréal and former MNA and MP

Comment: Joseph Heath
Director, Centre for Ethics and Professor of Philosophy

Thursday, October 10
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Venue: CG150, 14 Queens Park Crescent West

Register: https://lacharte.eventbrite.com/

The new proposed Charter of Quebec Values has generated much debate both within Quebec and across Canada. It has made international headlines. Daniel Turp and Joseph Heath will be discussing the genesis, content and goals of the Charter. The session will be moderated by Professor Irvin Studin, MPP, Program Director at the School of Public Policy & Governance.

Quantitative Ethics: Business Bribery Index (BBI) 

Amir Farmanesh
Visiting Faculty, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

The new Journal of Global Ethics is out (here), containing a selection of the papers presented last October at the Centre for Ethics, “Thinking Beyond Distribution” conference, organized by Monique Deveaux and Kathryn Walker.

Introduction
Monique Deveaux and Kathryn Walker

We fight for roses too: time-use and global gender justice
Alison M. Jaggar

Global care ethics: beyond distribution, beyond justice
Fiona Robinson

Is the capability approach a sufficient challenge to distributive accounts of global justice?
Christine Koggel

Ideal theory in an nth-best world: the case of pauper labor
Joseph Heath

Non-domination’s role in the theorizing of global justice
Mira Bachvarova

Postcolonialism and global justice
Margaret Kohn

The sentimentalist paradox; on the normative and visual foundations of humanitarianism
Fuyuki Kurasawa

Place-related attachments and global distributive justice
Margaret Moore

Revising global theories of justice to include public goods
Heather Widdows and Peter G.N. West-Oram