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CANCELLED–Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Robin Zheng, Glasgow)

Wednesday December 13, 2023, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Unfortunately, the talk by Robin Zheng has been cancelled at this time.

The Ethics and Political Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Robin Zheng, a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Dr. Zheng has research interests ranging across ethics, moral psychology, feminist, social, and political philosophy. She focuses especially on issues of moral responsibility, structural injustice, and social change, with emphasis on issues of gender, race, and social inequality. She is also an associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, a co-editor of the De Gruyter Transforming Political Philosophy book series, the Glasgow representative of the Scots Philosophical Association, and a committee member of the Analysis Trust. She has also served on the APA Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, as well as on the APA Task Force on a Good Practices Guide. Before joining the University of Glasgow, Dr. Zheng was an assistant professor in Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, from 2016-2022, where she co-founded the Yale-NUS Gender Research Cluster and served as co-chair of the Yale-NUS College Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Talk Title

Solidarity, Disagreement, and Strategies for Change

Talk Abstract

TBD

About the Ethics and Political Philosophy Group

The Ethics and Political Philosophy Group meets periodically throughout the year to discuss topics in value theory and related fields, including meta-ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, moral psychology, practical reason, agency, and identity.

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Date:
Wednesday December 13, 2023
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Organizer

Brendan de Kenessey

Venue

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418
170 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8 Canada
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Phone
416-978-3311
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