In a recent episode of Vox’s Unexplainable podcast, Daryn Lehoux, Queen’s National Scholar, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, comments on whether garlic has the ability to break magnets.
Says Daryn: "sorry about the silly intro -- they did that in post-production (they have a schtick to adhere to). Things pick up a few minutes in."
Date
Monday November 27, 2023Location
Watson 517Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join the final workshop of the 2023 , which will welcome Sarah Fine (Cambridge).
Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.
Date
Monday November 13, 2023Location
Watson 517Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join the next workshop of the 2023 , which will welcome Aditi Bagchi (Fordham).
Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.
Date
Monday October 30, 2023Location
Watson 517Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join the next workshop of the 2023 , which will welcome Humeira Iqtidar (KCL).
Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.
Date
Monday October 16, 2023Location
Watson 517Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join the next workshop of the 2023 , which will welcome Aaron Mills (McGill).
Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.
Date
Tuesday October 3, 2023Location
ZoomMembers of the Queen’s community are invited to join, over Zoom, the next workshop of the 2023 , which will welcome Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory).
Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.
Date
Monday September 18, 2023Location
Law Building (128 Union), Room 400Members of the Queen’s community are invited to join, in person, the first workshop of the 2023 , which will welcome Michael Wilkinson (LSE).
Note that the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy is a “pre-read” event: guests’ papers are circulated beforehand, and participants who wish to ask questions and contribute to the discussion are expected to have read them. The papers, once available, can be found on . The convenors will share the password to access the papers via email.
M.A. Student
Philosophy
Ph.D. Candidate
Philosophy
Research Interests:
Political philosophy, nonideal theory, contractualism, affirmative action, rectificatory justice.
Biography:
Joel's research begins from the observation that, while political philosophers working in ideal theory have devoted much attention both to the question “what are the correct principles of ideal justice?” and to the question “which particular arrangements/policies satisfy the principles of ideal justice?”, work in nonideal theory has focused almost exclusively on the analogue to the second question - i.e., “which particular arrangements/policies count as just responses to injustice?” It's been roughly a quarter century since the beginning of the "nonideal turn” in political philosophy, yet philosophers have produced remarkably little in the way of systematic answers to the question “what are the correct principles of justice in responding to injustice?"
Ultimately, Joel’s research seeks to highlight the significance of this lacuna in hopes of encouraging others to take up the work of addressing it. His strategy for doing this consists of demonstrating i) why theories of justice in responding to injustice (i.e., theories of "nonideal justice") are needed to bridge the gap between ideal theories of justice and questions of nonideal policy (e.g., whether race-based affirmative action counts as a just response to injustice) and ii) how one might go about constructing a contractualist theory of nonideal justice.
MA
Philosophy
Research Interests:
Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Moral Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Critical Race Theory
Biography:
