Foundations of Ethics: Tom Hurka

Professor Tom Hurka is the Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Chair in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. He works in moral and political philosophy and is the author of Perfectionism (Oxford, 1993), Virtue, Vice, and Value (Oxford, 2001), and, most recently, The Best Things in Life (Oxford, 2010), an accessible survey of the different things that can make life worth living. For three years he was a weekly philosophy columnist for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. A collection of his columns was published as Principles: Short Essays on Ethics (Harcourt Brace, 1993). He received his BA in Philosophy from University of Toronto in 1975, before going on to a DPhil at the University of Oxford (1980). He taught for many years at the University of Calgary, before joining the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2002.

Ethics in Action: Joseph Heath

Professor Heath Is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Public Policy. He works in the field of critical theory, philosophy and economics, business ethics and practical rationality. His scholarly work has been published in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. He is the author Morality, Competition and the Firm (Oxford, 2014), Following the Rules (Oxford: 2008) and Communicative Action and Rational Choice (MIT, 2001). He is also the author of a number of popular books, including Enlightenment 2.0 (HarperCollins, 2014), Filthy Lucre (HarperCollins, 2008) and with Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell (HarperCollins, 2004).

Ethics in Translation: Mohammad Fadel

Mohammad Fadel is Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law. Professor Fadel wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law while at the University of Chicago. Professor Fadel was admitted to the Bar of New York in 2000 and practiced law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and securities-related regulatory investigations. Professor Fadel also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Professor Fadel has published numerous articles on Islamic legal history and Islam and liberalism.