This past term, Lisa Guenther taught a āPrincipalās Dream Courseā on Critical Perspectives on Social Diversity. The students collectively created a rich website, , that brings together philosophical accounts of epistemic injustice, a focus on colonial structures and racial disparities in the carceral system, and attention to knowledge and justice in Kaātarohkwi/Kingston.
Student Kelly King, in the fourth year of BA, has been given the Mildred Blackadder/Zonta Club Award from . Congratulations, Kelly!
Kelly writes to introduce herself:
Kerah Gordon-Solmon has organized on the site PEA (for Philosophy, Ethics, Academia) Soup. The discussion features philosophers Alec Walen, Sophia Moreau, and Christian Barry, and has provoked a lively conversation in the PEA Soup community.
As we all adapt to the realities of COVID-19, it is so important as philosophers to continue to think and imagine ideas in new ways.
For the past couple of years, ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„ Philosophy Professor Paul Fairfield has been exploring "smaller, everyday ideas" through his podcast .
Dr. Catherine Stinson will be joining ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„ as a new faculty member in both the Department of Philosophy and the School of Computing at Queenās.
PhD student Rogney Piedra Arencibia has won a prestigious Vanier Scholarship to support his research for the next three years. This is only the latest of Rogney's achievements -- he has multiple publications, including the book Marxism and the Dialectics of Nature (in Spanish), which is in its second edition.
Sergio Sismondo is an advisor on a podcast series for , which generally covers issues about science in the public interest, and is focusing on stories relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal Citation Reports ranked the journal , edited by Sergio Sismondo, first in its category, History and Philosophy of Science. The journal's 'impact factor', a measure of how often its articles are cited, jumped this year to 4.038, considerably higher than the next-ranked journal in the category.
Congratulations to all of this year's Philosophy graduates! We're really sorry that we couldn't all see each other at a face-to-face convocation, but hats off to:
Arnone, Andrew Jacob, Major in Philosophy
Bell, Victoria Elizabeth, Major in Philosophy, Arts Minor in English Language and Literature
Borsellino, Victoria Rose, Major in Philosophy
Brennen, Roslyn Stephanie, Major in Philosophy
Conroy, Grace Kathleen, Major in Philosophy, Arts Minor in Sociology
