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A meticulous lover of wisdom has created a wonderful graph outlining the various relations among philosophers. It can be found here.

Dominic Martin, “The Contained Rivalry Requirement and a ‘Triple-Feature’ Program for Business Ethics,” Journal of Business Ethics (2012). Get it here (gated).

Abstract: This paper proposes a description of the moral obligations of economic agents. It will show that a threefold division should be adopted to distinguish moral obligations applying to their interactions in the market, obligations applying to their interactions inside business firms and obligations applying to their interactions with agents outside the market. Competition might be permissible in the first case since markets are special patterns of social interactions (called adversarial schemes). They produce their benefits when agents try to satisfy exclusive preferences at the expense of others. However, moral obligations inside the firm and moral obligations outside the market are of a different nature. This argument will be developed in the two first parts of this paper. In the third part, it will outline the relevant strengths of that account in relation with two popular views of economic agents’ moral obligations: the shareholder primacy view and the stakeholder theory.

Monday Sept. 17, 2012: Seminar Talk

Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligation
Tracy Isaacs
Department of Philosophy & Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research
University of Western Ontario

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

We have created a poster that lists all the Events taking place at the Centre for Ethics this year.We think it is quite stunning. If you would like a copy to place in your area, please contact us.

Kathryn Walker and Will Kymlicka (eds). Rooted Cosmopolitanism (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012).

About the Book
Canadians take pride in being good citizens of the world, yet our failure to meet commitments on the global stage raises questions. Do Canadians need to transcend local attachments and national loyalties to become full global citizens? Is the very idea of rooted cosmopolitanism simply a myth that encourages complacency about Canada’s place in the world?

This volume brings together leading scholars to assess the concept of rooted cosmopolitanism, both in theory and practice. In Part 1, authors examine the nature, complexity, and relevance of the concept itself and show how local identities such as patriotism and Quebec nationalism can, but need not, conflict with cosmopolitan values and principles. In Part 2, they reveal how local ties and identities in practice enable and impede Canada’s global responsibilities in areas such as multiculturalism, climate change, immigration and refugee policy, and humanitarian intervention.

By examining how Canada has negotiated its relations to “the world” both within and beyond its own borders, Rooted Cosmopolitanism evaluates the possibility of reconciling local ties and nationalism with commitments to human rights, global justice, and international law.

Simone Chambers, “Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason?: The Politics of Property-Owning Democracy” in Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson, Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (London: Wiley, 2012) (link).

Wed, May 16, 2012: Public Lecture

David Schweickart
Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

Arash Abizadeh
Professor of Political Science, McGill University

The Democratic Legitimacy of Border Coercion: Freedom of Association, Territorial Dominion, and Self-Defence

12:00 – 2:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building

You are cordially invited to attend the annual Community Research Partnership in Ethics (CRPE) program conference.  This year, we had two students, Nadia Zaman and Cindy Yi, participate in the CRPE program.  They worked with our community partners, the Canadian Centre for the Victims of Torture (Nadia) and the Office of the Integrity Commissioner of Ontario (Cindy).  Nadia and Cindy will be presenting their research papers.  Nadia’s paper is entitled “The Ethics of Refugee Limbo” and Cindy’s paper is entitled “The Nature and Limits of Whistleblowing in the Public Sector”.

The conference will take place on Thursday, 12 April, from 2pm until 4pm in Room 200 of the Larkin Building (in the Centre for Ethics).  We hope that you will be able to join us.

Dr. Theresa Miedema
Acting Director, Ethics, Society & Law Program, Trinity College Associate & Instructor, Trinity College in the University of Toronto

Jacob Weinrib
PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, and Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics

Toward a Theory of Modern Constitutional Law

Centre for Ethics
12 noon – 2:00 pm

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