Dalitso Ruwe, newly appointed Assistant Professor in Black Political Thought, led a discussion on critical race theory with a group of inmates in the medium security units at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston. The session was very successful, with an engaged discussion and a call from the men that Dalitso return for future conversations.
Ph.D., 2024
Philosophy
Arts and Science
Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Practical Ethics, Value Theory
My research interests lie in political philosophy, normative ethics, practical ethics, and value theory. At present, my two main research projects concern, respectively, the ethics of far-future-affecting policy and the ethics of social and political membership.
I am a and a . In 2022, I was a visiting doctoral researcher in philosophy at the , and part of the early career conference programme at . At the invitation of the same, I will be visiting Oxford again for Trinity term 2023.
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Christine Sypnowich was the keynote speaker at 鈥淔reedom, Equality and Justice: G.A.
Meena Krishnamurthy鈥檚 recent piece of public philosophy, 鈥淭he Burdened Virtue of Racial Passing鈥, appeared this May in the Boston Review. In the piece, Krishnamurthy argues that, 鈥淭hough a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices鈥. The full article is available at the link below.
Date
Thursday March 31, 2022Location
成人大片 University, Watson 517Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a chapter by Christine Sypnowich (Queen's), titled "Rescuing Existing Value: For or Against Socialist Community?"
Further details, as well as Christine's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
David Bakhurst, George Whalley Distinguished University Professor and John and Ella G. Charlton Professor of Philosophy, will hold a Visiting Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, April鈥揓une 2022.
Christine Sypnowich, Professor and Department Head, takes up a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, April-June, to work on a manuscript about G.A. (Jerry) Cohen, the eminent Canadian political philosopher who for many years was the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in Oxford.
Date
Thursday March 17, 2022Location
成人大片 University, Watson 517Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Dalitso Ruwe (Queen's), titled "Black Minds Matter".
Further details, as well as Dalitso's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
It is with great sadness that the Philosophy Department shares the tragic news that our former PhD student, Ryan McInerney, passed away on December 23, 2021. He was 33.
Josh Mosley, M.A. Student and Gaels Football Offensive Lineman, has been signed to the CFL team, the Calgary Stampeders.
