CHEF du DÉPARTEMENT DE PHILOSOPHIE

Éducation

• B.A. (Honours), Dalhousie University
• M.A. Philosophy, Queen's University
• PhD. Philosophy, Queen's University

Sujets de spécialisation

• Bioethics, Modern Philosophy

Cours enseignés

• PHIL 1105 Introduction to Philosophy
• PHIL 2345 Bioethics: Human Life Issues
• PHIL 2525 Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHIL 2726 Media Ethics
• PHIL 2876 Business Ethics
• PHIL 3545 Moral Philosophy
• PHIL 4405 20th Century Moral, Political, Social and Legal Theory

Intérêts de recherche

• Media Ethics

Publications récentes

MONOGRAPHIES
• Bioethics In Canada: A Philosophical Introduction (with Dr. Carol Collier). Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2011.
• Philosophy and the Situated Self: A Challenge To Bioethics. Lexington Books, 2013
• Bioethics In Canada, Second edition (with Dr. Carol Collier). Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2015.
• The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction, Lexington Books, 2018.

ÉVALUÉ PAR LES PAIRS
• “Les paradoxes de l’instrumentalite: la philosophie peut-elle survivre a son utilite?,” Les Cahiers Fernand Dumont, No. 2, Automne 2012. (With Dr. Carol Collier).
• “Can You Touch Someone’s Body With Your Mind?, in Leonard Cohen and Philosophy, edited by Jason Holt. Open Court, 2014.
• “Thinking About The End Of Life In Teleological Terms”, Diametros 45 (2015): 1-18. Doi: 10.13153/diam.45.2015.793 (With Dr. Paolo Biondi)
• “Polemical Note: Can It Be Unethical To Provide Nutrition and Hydration to Patients With Advanced Dementia?,” in Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy. Diametros 50 (December 2016.)
• “The Expressive-Collaborative Construction of Morality in Canadian Detective Fiction,” Clues: A Journal Of detection, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2019.

MONOGRAPHIES SOUS CONTRAT
• The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction, Lexington Books. This book is expected to be released in 2018.

AUTRES PUBLICATIONS
• “Are Students The canaries In Our Coal Mines?”, 10th April, 2019.
• “Why You Shouldn’t Buy Your Child’s Place In University,” 20th March, 2019.
• “Five Reasons To Tax The Rich (#5), The Cape Breton Spectator, 13th February, 2019.
• “Five Reasons To Tax The Rich (#4),” The Cape Breton Spectator, 20th January, 2019.
• “Five Reasons To Tax The Rich (#3),” The Cape Breton Spectator, 12th December, 2018.
• “Five Reasons To Tax The Rich (#2),” The Cape Breton Spectator, 21st November, 2018.
• “Five Reasons To Tax The Rich (#1),” The Cape Breton Spectator, 17th October, 2018.
• “Ethical Assertions vs. Statements of Fact,” The Cape Breton Spectator, 19th September, 2018.
• “Ethical Shopping: Spending Money, Making Change,” The Cape Breton Spectator, 25th July, 2018.
• “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra,” The Cape Breton Spectator, 20th June, 2018.
• “Moral Superiority At The Gym,” The Cape Breton Spectator, 16th May, 2018.
• “Should I Become Immortal?”, The Cape Breton Spectator, April 11th, 2018.
• “Taking Cartesian Dualism Too Far?”, The Cape Breton Spectator, March 14th, 2018.
• “Ideas You Didn’t Know You Had: Who Are You?”, The Cape Breton Spectator, February 14th, 2018.
• “Why Feeling Is Not An Argument,” The Cape Breton Spectator, January 10th, 2018.
• “Would You Eat Your Cat?,” The Cape Breton Spectator, Decmber 6th, 2017.
• “Our Animal Companions,” The Cape Breton Spectator, November 15, 2017.
• “Ally, Role Model, Indifferent or Dementor?,” The Cape Breton Spectator, October 11, 2017.
• “Just Like Riding A Bike?,” The Cape Breton Spectator, September 20, 2017.
• “Thinking and Feeling,” The Cape Breton Spectator, August 2, 2017.
• “Rawls, Hobbes, & the Zombie Aocalypse,” The Cape Breton Spectator, July 12, 2017.
• “Would You Kill The Fat Man?,” The Cape Breton Spectator, May 31st, 2017.
• “Zombie As Allegory,” The Cape Breton Spectator, April 26th, 2017.
• “Murder Mysteries & Moral Imagination,” The Cape Breton Spectator, March 29th, 2017.
• “Detectives, Spies, Zombies, & Ethics,” The Cape Breton Spectator, March 1st, 2017.
• “Transparency (Part II),” The Cape Breton Spectator, February 8th, 2017.
• “Transparency (Part I),” The Cape Breton Spectator, January 25th, 2017.
• “This Looks Like A Job For Socrates!,” The Cape Breton Spectator, December 14th, 2016.
• “Taxpayers or Citizens?,” The Cape Breton Spectator, November 2nd, 2016.
• “Public versus Private,” The Cape Breton Spectator, October 12th, 2016.