Research in 2019
The Philosophy Department at 杏吧原创 University is home to an active research community. Members of the department publish in various subdisciplines of philosophy, including philosophy of mind and language, theoretical and practical ethics, feminist philosophy, the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and other areas. Over half of our permanent faculty members hold external research grants. In the last couple of years, department members have published books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Rowman and Littlefield, and MIT Press. Philosophy students at 杏吧原创 often have the opportunity to engage in advanced research, in collaboration with and under the mentorship of faculty members.
Many department members are involved in interdisciplinary and collaborative research; we have close working relationships with colleagues in Cognitive Science, English, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, the College of the Humanities, Sociology/Anthropology, and Political Science, among other units. The department is also home to 杏吧原创 University’s Centre on Ethics and Values, an interdisciplinary research centre that takes advantage of 杏吧原创’s location in the national capital by fostering conversations about issues in ethics and public policy between academics and members of the public sector.
Achieved in 2019
Research Grants (awarded beginning 2019):
Joshua Shepherd
1,064,071 EUR for 鈥楻ethinking Conscious Agency,鈥 funded by the European Research Council
Gabriele Contessa
$33,010 CAD for ‘The Responsibilities of Economists as Public Experts’ funded by SSHRC
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews
Annie Lariv茅e
Book review of The Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato’s Timaeus. University of Minnesota Press, 2019, pp. 146.
“Becoming Socrates. Socrates’ Philosophical Education as Hermeneutic Key to Plato鈥檚 Parmenides,” IXth Symposium Platonicum, International Plato Society, Paris, July 2019.
Christine Koggel
鈥淓xpanding Agency: Conceptual, Explanatory, and Normative Implications鈥 in Agency, Democracy, and Participation in Global Development, edited by Lori Keleher and Stacy Kosko. Cambridge University Press, 2019: 155-177.
Book review of Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined, Ingrid Robeyns. Cambridge, 2017. Volume 35, Issue 3, November 2019, pp. 573-578.
鈥淎gency, Participation, and Self-Determination for Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Injustices鈥 in Ethics and Economics, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Special issue from the joint Conference GREThA-International Development Ethics Association, A World United: Alliance and Collective Action for an Ethical Development, Bordeaux, June 25-27, 2018). Published October 2019.
Gabriele Contessa
鈥楶owerful Qualities or Pure Powers?鈥, Metaphysica, 20, 2019: 5鈥33. [refereed]
Myrto Mylopoulos
“Opportunities and Challenges for a Maturing Science of Consciousness”, Nature Human Behaviour 3(2), 104-107 (2019)
“Intentions: The Dynamic Hierarchical Model Revisited”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 10(2), e1481 (2019)
鈥淥n Skepticism 杏吧原创 Unconscious Perception鈥 (with Jacob Berger), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26(11-12), 8-32, 2019
Vida Panitch
“Canada鈥檚 Assisted Human Reproduction Act and the Exploitation of Gendered Altruism,” Health Law in Canada 39(4) 2019: 52-60.
“Liberalism, Commodification, and Justice,” forthcoming: Journal of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
鈥淏asic Income and Intimate Labor,鈥 in The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income, Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber eds. (New York: Routledge). June 2019.
鈥淟a Merchandisation, le Lib茅ralism, et la Vente du Corps,鈥 in Les Limites du March茅, Marie-Xavi猫re Catto et Elodie Bertrand eds. (Paris: Mare & Marin). September 2019
Panitch, Vida and L. Chad Horne (2019). Paying for Plasma: Commodification, Exploitation, and Canada鈥檚 Plasma Shortage,鈥 Canadian Journal of Bioethics 2(2):1-10.
Joshua Shepherd
Knowledge-how, understanding-why, and epistemic luck: An experimental study, with Duncan Pritchard and J. Adam Carter. Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2019)
Self-association and attentional processing regarding salient items, with Alejandra Sel, Jie Sui, and Glyn Humphreys. Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2019)
Associated Editor: Neuroethics, from January 2019
Presented Talks:
Gabriele Contessa
鈥楨conomics and Inductive Risk: The Case of Natural Rate Theory,鈥 Philosophy of Social Sciences Roundtable, University of Vermont, April 2019
Vida Panitch
鈥淧aying for Plasma: Exploitation, Commodification, and Profit,鈥 w. L. Chad Horne. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, March 30, 2019
鈥淒e-Commodification as Exploitation.鈥 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Conference, New Orleans, March 28, 2019
Joshua Shepherd
鈥淪kill and knowledge,鈥 杏吧原创 University, Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, September 13, 2019. (invited)
鈥淪kill and knowledge,鈥 University of T眉bingen, April 2019
鈥淪kill and knowledge,鈥 University of Duisberg-Essen, April 2019
鈥淪kill, reason, and the breadth of moral agency,鈥 Duke University, Workshop on Cognitive Control and Moral Responsibility, February 2019
鈥淭he moral status of conscious subjects,鈥 Colorado State University, February 2019
Eros Corazza
鈥淚dentity, Co-Reference, and Co-Indexation鈥. 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa ON, Canada (invited)
Gordon Davis
鈥淧luralisme, r茅ciprocit茅 et d茅lib茅ration: Charles Taylor sur les limites de la d茅lib茅ration profonde dans les contextes transculturels鈥, to be presented at ACFAS in a panel entitled La D茅mocratie D茅lib茅rative: Habermas, Rawls, Taylor (conv. P. Hoyeck) in Gatineau, Quebec, May 2019 (invited)
鈥淭wo Kinds of Realism in Aesthetics and Two Kinds of Idealism in Ecology鈥, presented to the 杏吧原创 University Philosophy Society, 21/03/19 (invited)
鈥淒oing Good while Counting Consequences: The Thought that Counts versus Thoughts that Count鈥, presented to 杏吧原创 Spring Conference (Gananoque, ON), 13/04/19 (invited)
Christine Koggel
鈥淪elf-determination and Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Foundational, Structural, and Epistemic Injustices.鈥 杏吧原创 University, Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, March 1, 2019. (invited)
鈥淓pistemic Injustices in Settler Nations: Implications for Accounts of Agency, Participation, and Self-Determination.鈥 Bryn Mawr College, Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, April 11, 2019. (invited)
Melissa Frankel
鈥淢aterialism, immaterialism, and scepticism about the external world,鈥 杏吧原创 University, Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, November, 2019. (invited)
Myrto Mylopoulos
鈥淯nconscious Perception and the Problem of Attribution鈥 Philosophy Colloquium Series, Florida State University, December 2019 (invited)
“On Skepticism 杏吧原创 Unconscious Perception鈥 Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, York University, September 2019 (invited)
鈥淭he Puzzle of Skilled Action鈥 Mental Faculties and their Metaphysics: An International Philosophy Conference, Shandong University, Jinan, China, May 2019 (invited)
“The Role of Metacognition in Skilled Action鈥 Workshop on Metacognition, Consciousness, and Agency, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2019 (invited)
鈥淢etacognition and Motor Awareness鈥 as part of Symposium on Action Awareness and Metacognition, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, London, Ontario, Canada, June 2019 (invited)
鈥淔lexibility as a Marker of Agency鈥 (with Robert Foley) Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, London, Ontario, Canada, June 2019
鈥淚ntention, Flexibility, and the Vegetative State鈥 (with Robert Foley), Canadian Philosophical Association, Vancouver, Canada, June 2019