C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics: Recent Episodes
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Selected lectures and other events from the Centre for Ethics (C4E) at the University of Toronto and its Ethics of AI Lab. Also from C4E: Let's Get Ethical, our podcast featuring conversations about ethics, from soup to nuts.
William Paris, Undisciplining Time?: Critique, Utopia, And The Prospects Of Life Beyond Capital by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Yukiko Kobayashi Lui, Feminist And Queer Legal Theory Toward Family Abolition by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Miko Zeldes-Roth, Escape From Politics: Personal Responsibility And White Citizenship In America by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Anthony Sangiuliano, Discrimination And Psychological Harm by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jeta Mulaj, Balkanization And The Racial Order by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Shannon Hoff, A Phenomenological Account Of The Conditions Of Transnational Feminism by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Martin O’Neill, Community, Solidarity And The Sense Of Justice by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Eric Orts, Toward A Theory Of Plural Business Purposes by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Chiara Cordelli, On The Republican Critique Of Capitalism by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Joel Anderson, Assistive Technologies For Self-Control In The Context Of Structural Attributional Injustice
Larisa Svirsky, The Second-Personal Significance Of Trauma by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Winston Thompson, On The Ethics Of Teaching Race by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Maya Goldenberg, Myth-Busting or Meaning-Making Public Science Communications and the Infodemic by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Bruce Maxwell, Social Justice Advocacy In The Classroom And Teacher Neutrality by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Christopher Martin, Should Higher Education Be A Right? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Emily McWilliams, Intellectual Humility in Joint Inquiry by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Lisa McKeown, Acknowledging Passionate Utterances by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Logan Gates, Human Rights in the Latin American Tradition by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Enna Kim, Yestermorrow Speculative Tales of a Possible Repair Future by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Atif Khan, Narrating Hauntings Everywhere Towards The Edges Of Territorial Pakistan by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jared Riggs, Being Practical about the Moral Status of AI by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Angelica Pesarini, "We Can't Welcome Them All" The Grammar of Race in Italian Political Discourse by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
The Ethics of Researching Al-Qaeda and ISIS Communications Online
In this episode, Aden interviews Nadia Hai, who just finished her PhD at the Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. She researches the way al-Qaeda and the Islamic State present their respective causes to Western audiences through their online, English-language media, with a focus on their online magazines created and distributed by their respective media foundations. She completed her master’s degree in culture and society at the University of Calgary, where her thesis examined the rhetorical devices al-Qaeda employed in its English-language magazine Inspire. Currently, Hai works as a national security policy analyst in the federal government. You can follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/nshai27, and you can follow host Aden at https://twitter.com/aspiringexpert
The Ethics of Interviewing ISIS Fighters
In this episode, Aden interviews Amarnath Amarasingam, who is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Studies, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. His research interests are in terrorism, radicalization and extremism, online communities, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion. He co-directed a study on foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, based at the University of Waterloo, for six years during which he conducted numerous social media and in-person interviews with current and former foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, as well as parents and close friends of those who travelled to fight. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam, and his published work is available at https://amarnathamarasingam.academia.edu/
C4E Undergraduate Research Conference 2022: Ethics, Healing & Reconciliation by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Symposium: Anatomies Of Grief - Day 2, June 24 by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Symposium: Anatomies Of Grief - Day 1, June 23 by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
The Ethics of Researching Racism: Talking About Anti-Asian Racism as an Asian Researcher
In this episode, Aden interviews Melanie Ng, who is a third-year PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Toronto, a Harney Graduate Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and a Museum Educator at the Royal Ontario Museum. Her dissertation takes a transpacific perspective to studying the role of clandestine Chinese migrants in contesting and subverting the category of legal/illegal in Canada and the United States during the twentieth century. Apart from her dissertation research, she has also worked on analyzing anti-Asian racism in Canada during COVID-19. You can follow her on twitter at https://twitter.com/Mel_speakiNg
The Right To Have Rights Today Reflections On Hannah Arendt by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
The Ethics of Remote Fieldwork in a Pandemic: Some Reflections on Performances in a Zoom Room
In this episode, Aden interviews Kristen Csenkey, is a PhD in Global Governance Candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She is a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI). Kristen was the 2020 Women in Defence and Security (WiDS) Fellowship recipient and a Women in International Security (WIIS) Canada Emerging Thought Leader in Digital Security. You can find her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KCsenkey, as well as some of her work on linktr.ee at: linktr.ee/KristenCsenkey.
Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
The Ethics Of Humanism: Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism, And Resistance by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
In this episode, Aden interviews Faisal Kamal, who is a PhD student in the department of Political Science at University of Toronto. His research examines state-religion relations in contemporary Pakistan and Bangladesh through the prism of constitutionalism, property, and religion.
You can find more information about Faisal's work at https://www.mmg.mpg.de/person/95814/2553, and can follow him on Twitter @_faisalkamal
Samantha A. Noël, Tropical Aesthetics Of Black Modernism by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nathan Olmstead, We Are All Ghosts: Sidewalk Toronto by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Gail Super, Porous Penality And The Myth Of Liberal Punishment by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kamilah Ebrahim & Erina Moon, Building Algorithms That Work For Everyone by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Meena Krishnamurthy, Martin Luther King On Fear And Fearlessness by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
In this episode, Aden interviews Jessica Stallone who is a PhD student in the department of Sociology at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on studying anti-Muslim racism in Canada.
You can find more information about Jessica's work at http://jessicastallone.com/, and can follow her on Twitter @StalloneJess
Rinaldo Walcott, Warren Crichlow, Sarah S. Smith, W. Chris Johnson, The Long Emancipation by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Don Deere, Édouard Glissant's Sense Of Space by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sharon Ferguson, Increasing Diversity In Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Julian Posada, The Coloniality Of Data Work For Machine Learning by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Tom Yeh & Benjamin Walsh, Is AI Creepy Or Cool Teaching Teens About AI And Ethics by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Erin Pineda, An Entire World In Motion - Civil Disobedience As Decolonizing Praxis by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mishall Ahmed, Difference Centric Yet Difference Transcended by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Fill The Earth And Subdue - Exploring Domination, Responsibilities And Relations by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
From Human Rights To Digital Human Rights – A Proposed Typology by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Myisha Cherry, On James Baldwin And Black Rage by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Clayton Chin, Recognition As Acknowledgement - Symbolic Politics In Multicultural Democracies by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
In this episode, Aden interviews Brandon Rigato who is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies in The School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. His research focuses on right-wing extremism, radicalization, and social movements.
You can find more information about Brandon's work at https://carleton.ca/populistpublics/people/brandon-rigato, and can follow him on Twitter @BrandonRigato
Romy Opperman, Sylvia Wynter's Caribbean Critique by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Chandni Desai, Disrupting Settler Colonial Economies Across Geographies by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Wendy Wong, Data You And The Challenge For Data Rights by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Algorithmic Adaptability And Ethics Washing - Appropriating The Critique by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mark V. Campbell and Huda Hassan, Hip-Hop Futurities by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
In this episode, Aden interviews Charlotte Duval-Lantoine who is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Charlotte's research focuses on gender-based discrimination in the Canadian military.
You can find more information about Charlotte's work at https://www.cgai.ca/charlotte_duval_lantoine, and can follow her on Twitter @CharlotteDuLan
Kimberley Brownlee, Disobedience: The Rarest And Most Courageous Of The Virtues by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Welcome to The Ethics of Research. My name is Aden, and I am a doctoral fellow at the Centre for Ethics. My research focuses on right-wing extremism in Canada. Based on my field research over the past couple of years, I realized that there was a gap regarding conversations that focus on ethical dilemmas faced by researchers while working on contentious issues. To fill that gap, this podcast will include conversations with academics who study topics such as violence, crime, extremism, civil wars, refugee crises and prison systems while researching individuals who are either perpetrators or victims within these structures. The goal is to help early career graduate students think beyond their methods training and prepare ahead regarding ethical issues they might face while researching similar topics.
Tavia Nyong'o, Black Humanitarianism And The Human Rights Archive by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ori Freiman, The Ethics Of Central Bank Digital Currency by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Janelle Joseph, Race, Ethics, and Intersectional Social Justice in Kinesiology by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Allison Weir, Indigenous Feminisms and Relational Rights by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
The Problem Of Homelessness In Later Life - Exploring Health And Social Service Provision In Toronto by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Shozab Raza, The Sufi And The Sickle - Mystical Marxism In Rural Pakistan by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Pasquale & Malgieri, The New Turn On AI Accountability From The EU Regulation And Beyond by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kiel Brennan-Marquez, The (Non)Automatability Of Equity by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Manvinder Kaur Gill, Germs of Rot: Colonialism, Culture, and Immigrant Mental Health Discourse by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Henry Krahn, Between Persuasion And Coercion: Protest As Holding Accountable by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mathew Iantorno, Automating Care, Manufacturing Crisis by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Avery Slater, The Golem and the Game of Automation by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Benjamin P. Davis, Hannah Arendt’s Right to Have Rights in the American Context by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Michael Sooriyakumaran, Inventing the Asian Community by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nikolas Kompridis, Sembène’s Moolaadé: “Sacred Space” as Political Sanctuary & Political Agency by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Abdi Aidid, Legal Prediction and Calcification Risk by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ishtiaque Ahmed, Whose Intelligence? Whose Ethics?: Ethical Pluralism and Postcolonial Computing by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kamilah Ebrahim, The Limits of Anti-Trust Regulation by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Check out the website for more information on the event! https://ethics.utoronto.ca/events/smart-cities-in-canada-digital-dreams-corporate-designs-author-meets-critics/
Check out https://ethics.utoronto.ca/events/conference-transparency-in-the-digital-environment/ for more information on the event.
Julian Posada: Disembeddedness in Data Annotation for Machine Learning by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ben Green, Algorithmic Governance: The Promises and Perils of Government Algorithms by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Michael Dawson, Why Race and Capitalism Not Racial Capitalism by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Grace Lavery, One Weird Trick: Feminism, Realism, and The Rhetoric of Technique by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez, Édouard Glissant’s Ethics by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jonathan Kwan, Transitional Legitimacy: A Framework for Theorizing Structural Racism by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ricky Varghese & Benjamin Weil, Privilege, Race & Imagined Immunities in the Time of COVID by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jodi Byrd, What Remains: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Videogames, and an Empire in Play by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Clare Hemmings, Unnatural Feelings: The Affective Life of ‘Anti-Gender’ Mobilisations by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Gayathri Naganathan, Shadeism, Sexual Health, and Diasporic Women's Experiences by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Suzanne Kite and Scott Benesiinaabandan, Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Elettra Bietti, From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Senthuran Varatharajah, Where Are You From? The Ethical Dilemma of Writing Dis/placed by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kris Sealey, Creolizing the Nation: Nationalism and Caribbean Philosophy by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Dorothy Kim, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Premodern Critical Intersectionality by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Miriam Hird-Younger, The Productivity Of Mistrust: The Ethics Of Development Partnerships In Ghana by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Anjo-Marí Gouws, Failure and Form in Anne Charlotte Robertson's Confessionals by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Devin Guillory, Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ola Mohammed, The Black Nowhere: The Social and Cultural Politics of Listening to Black Canada(s) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Yolonda Wilson, Death, Pandemic, and Intersectionality by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Juliette Ferry-Danini, What Is the Problem with the Opacity of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nisrine Rahal, A Real Battlefield for Emancipation: The Hamburg Kindergarten Movement 1849-1852 by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Joy James, Captive Maternal Love and War Stories by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ben Davis, Does the Left have an Ethics? Notes on Stuart Hall's "Culture, Resistance, and Struggle" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Robert Soden, Responsible AI in Disaster Risk Management: A Community of Practice Perspective by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Laura Kwak, Representation and the Roles of Racialized Political Elites by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Muriam Fancy, Governance of Ethical AI: Methodologies to Procure Low Risk AI for Public Use by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sarah Stefana Smith, Surface, Abstraction and Skin in Black Contemporary Art by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Amanda Greer, Etiquette (Un)Seen: Post-WWII American Cinema and the Aesthetics of Politeness by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Anne-Marie Fowler, Differentiation is Mechanics, Integration is Art by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
David Scott, Stuart Hall's Ethics (Ethics & Caribbean Philosophy) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Iza Hussin, Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity (Perspectives on Ethics) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jonathan Kidd And Sonya Winton - Odamtten, Lovecraft Country A Conversation by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Watufani Poe, Representação vs. Representatividade: Black LGBTQ+ Identity Politics in Brazil by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism (Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Morag M. Kersel, Legal or Right? The Negative Consequences of the Legal Trade in Antiquities by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, Compound Crisis Cops, Climate, And COVID (Critical Race Studies) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Bianca Beauchemin, Re - Imagining Diasporic Black Radical Insurgency by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rodrigo Ochigame, Actuarialism and Racial Capitalism by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
SayHerName Breonna Taylor: Race, Ethics & Justice (with Idil Abdillahi, Beverly Bain, El Jones) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
André Brock, Black Morpheus Race in the Technocultural Matrix by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mohamed Abdalla, The Grey Hoodie Project: Big Tobacco, Big Tech, and the Threat on Academic Integrity (Ethics of AI in Context)
I. Bennett Capers, A New Country: Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044 by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Alex Hanna, Data, Transparency, and AI Ethics (Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Gail Super, Punitive Welfare on the Margins of the State by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sophie Grace Chappell, Forgiveness in Classical Greece by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Xine Yao, The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling: Considering Race and Affect From Below by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Drawing on new survey evidence of the impact of Covid-19 on international labour markets, this workshop sets out three key challenges for Labour Market Regulation going forward.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, countries are increasingly turning to criminal sanctions as a means to enforce social distancing and control the epidemic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach of law, policy-making and public health, our speakers discuss the health and human rights considerations of criminalization of COVID-19.
In the most urgent moments of the COVID-19 pandemic, apparently well-established discourses of individual rights collapsed immediately, with a wide array of social norms — e.g. concerning the use of public space, freedom of movement, freedom of contract and privacy — transforming almost literally overnight. What lessons should we draw about how rights discourse functions in a theory of the modern administrative state? What is the place of punishment when in the face of disagreement about which social norms should prevail?
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the shift toward a cashless society, with consumers and retailers turning to payment cards and digital payments in efforts to avoid the perceived contagion from cash. With surveillance an intrinsic feature of digital-payment systems, what are the possible repercussions of a cashless society? What lessons can we draw from payment platforms’ campaign against sex workers to address financial exclusion and discrimination in a post-pandemic society?
In this talk, Professor Anna Su discusses how religion and religious liberty has been shaping comparative legal and policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, examining some of the arguments underlying the cases filed by churches against closures in US and Europe. Professor Su argues both religious communities and the outside world will have to adapt to our new reality as we urgently acknowledge how the current pandemic highlights the need for a life beyond bare existence.
In this talk, Professor Lacetera reviews the ethical and economic arguments for and against compensating plasma donors. Professor Lacetera also reviews the current evidence on the social support to payments. Finally, Professor Lacetera expands from this specific case to discuss the challenges of policy making in the case of ethically contentious transactions.
Three medical students at the University of Toronto, Vinyas Harish, Liam McCoy, and Nishila Mehta, discuss the sentiments, pressures and dilemmas associated with being a medical trainee during a global pandemic. Topics include: (i) Learning medicine during COVID-19, (ii) “COVID competition” and pandemic productivity pressures (iii) what will change about medical education going forward.
This talk focus on vocabularies of internationalism, solidarity, and belonging amidst the pandemic. What is the “normal” to which so many desire to return? Why are some events officially declared a “crisis” and others casually deemed business as usual? By considering the terms of the present, and by providing examples across the Americas, this discussion will offer points of connection across our taken-as-natural lines: nations, states, political memberships, and so on.
Technology companies are rapidly repurposing themselves amidst the global pandemic, leveraging and expanding existing surveillance economies in the name of public health. What are the potential implications and differential outcomes of these collaborations between health authorities and technocapital? This talk explores the nascent intersections of surveillance capitalism and public health and suggests a framework for anticipating and containing the anti-democratic and authoritarian practices that may emerge.
In this talk Professor John Ricco discusses how distance is the spacing of the ethical, isolation is the evacuation of that space, loneliness is the deprivation of the self, and solitude is what we need to reclaim as the only means by which an ethical sense of the common might take place. Drawing upon the work of Arendt, Agamben, Blanchot, and Foucault, Dr. Ricco proceeds to explicate how it is that the COVID-19 pandemic has actually brought us too close together.
This talk explores how the pandemic helps us to see a richer conception of freedom – one that allows us both to challenge right wing resistance to lock-downs and to resist the simplistic medicalization of our politics as represented by the epidemiological models
This talk reflects on the major findings of the Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project so far, situating them in a broader conversation about policing, inequality, and the criminalization of communicable disease. Particular attention is paid to the dual crises currently faced by marginalized and racialized people across Canada, the crisis of COVID and the crisis of policing.
John Lorinc discusses his reporting about how the run on hydroxychloroquine backfired on legacy patients, exposed profound supply chain problems, and raised questions about the ethics of publishing, and then posting online, highly preliminary research results from small sample studies.
This conversation considers the hope and demand for a covid vaccine, examining the impulse to turn to a technological fix, why such an approach is almost destined to be a complicated and partial solution to the pandemic at most, and how thinking critically about the role of technology and society can help us come to grips with this aspect of the pandemic.
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, triage protocols and guidance documents have been drafted to facilitate decisions about access to critical care in situations of acute shortages. Several of these have evoked debate about their compatibility with human rights standards, even when they are presented as based on objective clinical criteria. This presentation will explore why some of the Canadian documents are discriminatory and how the concerns they raise can be addressed.
A number of policymakers have recently begun to consider whether to require “immunity passports” certifying immunity to COVID-19 before returning to workplaces, and even stores, museums, and other public spaces. While critics question the reliability of available antibody tests, such an exit strategy has yet to be seriously challenged on moral and legal grounds. This talk discusses how immunity passports—whether for natural immunity now, or for vaccines at a later date—would unfairly burden the least privileged members of society in ways that raise major civil rights concerns.
The pandemic, and government responses to it, have reignited these foundational debates about the purpose of wages, the nature of the labour market, and the role of governments in political economy.
How is COVID-19 affecting some of our most vulnerable populations & how can we ensure that we are responding to their needs? Efforts to responds to these questions sparked the evolution of The Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB) “30@8:30” — weekly, 7-part series of Instagram Live talks focused on COVID-19’s impact on vulnerable populations throughout our global community.
Using contact-tracing apps as an illustration, this talk explores the particular features and preoccupations of pandemic privacy.
COVID-19 has thrown debates over expertise and authority into sharp relief. Politicians in Canada and elsewhere now look to science, and scientists, to guide us. As they do, they often hail science as apolitical, pledging to proceed only as, and when, public health authorities recommend. But is science ever ‘objective’? If it isn’t, should we care? Here, Professor Evans offers some thoughts on the history of expertise, objectivity, and authority, and how a historical perspective can help us to approach ethical decision-making in turbulent times.
Any major event generates an avalanche of punditry, and this pandemic is no exception. Inevitably, much of this commentary consists of bad takes. And, philosophers seem particularly prone to embarrassing themselves. We consider a few initial responses to the current crisis from prominent philosophers, and situate these in a longer lineage of philosophers trying to comment on current events. Despite the predominance of bad takes, it’s precisely the naivete of philosophers that makes their interventions of value.
The actions and omissions of world leaders, public health leaders, and policy makers in charge of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic will reveal historical and current impacts of colonial violence and continued health inequities among African, Indigenous, racialized, and marginalized folks. Utilizing a critical intersectional decolonizing framework, this discussion focuses on the ethical dilemmas within the COVID-19 responses.
As governments increasingly move toward biosurveillance to contain the spread of the pandemic, we are already seeing an increase in tracking, automated drones and other types of technologies presented as viable solutions to manage the outbreak and control migration. However, if previous use of technology is any indication, refugees and people crossing borders will be disproportionately targeted. Virus-killing robots, cellphone tracking and artificially intelligent thermal cameras can all be used against refugees and people crossing borders, with far-reaching results and impacts of various human rights.
Professor Nicola Lacetera provides an introduction to the idea of social support of markets and to what a “repugnant transaction” is. Dr. Lacetera then discuss some of the ethical issues with the normal functioning of markets during this pandemic. In particular, Lacetera discusses price gouging as well as the production of vaccines and other covid-related products (from hand sanitizers to ventilators and vaccines…).
The four principle approach to medical ethics, balancing prima facie obligations to beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, has supplied a common language for the application of ethical analysis to medical practice for the last four decades. The frayed edges of this edifice are made visible, however, by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (and other historical circumstances of severe resource limitation in the healthcare system). Here, Dr. Sunit Das interrogates ethical considerations involved in the state of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, as demonstrated by reconsiderations of cancer care, in which the pillar of justice is exposed as internally divided.
With different voices and perspectives flooding the forum of public discourse over righting injustice, it is important to be reflective about the language of debate. The framing of public discourse can have implications for dialogue, substantive as opposed to symbolic justice, and progress.
In this conversation Drs. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Sandy Plácido offer an internationalist and pan-Caribbean perspective on the radical ethics of Black Lives Matter though an analysis of capitalism, imperialism, state violence, and antiblackness.
This talk situates contemporary demands for police abolition within the Movement for Black Lives’s (M4BL) critique of racial capitalism. It argues that M4BL’s vision to contest racial capitalism—as found in their policy platform—revolves around an abolitionist democratic politics, including demands for the democratization of land and natural resources. It ends by thinking about the political and normative implications of M4BL’s critique of and positive program to overcome anti-Black oppression.
The recent racial justice protests represent the introduction to mainstream political discourse of a new moral vocabulary, one that unequivocally centers Blackness, transforms how we understand dignity, and orients the virtues to struggle. With reference to the French and US contexts, Norman Ajari and Vincent Lloyd discuss what is new and what is old in the moral vocabulary of today’s racial justice movements.
This talk explores the condition of unbreathing for some (and inherent to the policing of blackness and race) in relationship to the breathability of others by drawing on accounts of the policing of black lives, black radical, feminist and critical social theory. The speakers propose a subjective and collective dis-dentification with the police as a precondition for a world in which we all can breathe.
Cette contribution vise à proposer des pistes d’élucidation au sujet d’une double énigme : les trajectoire historique ayant conduit à un « style policier français » marqué par sa rugosité, en particulier en ce qui concerne les espaces et les populations racialisées ; la grande prudence avec laquelle les spécialistes français des police studies intègrent les analyses postcoloniales et le passé colonial des polices hexagonales à leurs grilles d’analyse.
Amadou Korbinian Sow, BLM in Germany: What Does It Mean to Orient Oneself in White Jurisprudence? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
This talk focuses on the ways in which long standing racial health inequalities, as well as the way in which the burdens of the pandemic are distributed unequally, intersect the current uprisings, including the ideologies of underlying conditions, the idea of violence as a pandemic (metaphorical and literal), and more.
Black Lives Matter is a vibrant movement against racist brutality, but it is also an idea. It is a movement that draws on ideas, that is animated by ideas, that is generative of ideas. This talk examines what ideas can be located in, and distilled from, the angry protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd. It asks: what different futures, what alternative political visions, animate Black Lives Matter?
A conversation between Rachel Herzing and Amna Akbar on the organizing that came before, and the road ahead, toward prison abolition.
Ida Koivisto, Thinking Inside the Box: Transparency in Automated Decision-Making by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Parisa Moosavi, If Non-Sentient Organisms Can Have Rights Why Can’t Robots?(Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nikolas Kompridis, Agency: Human and Non-Human (Ethics@Noon) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
While the deep questions concerning the ethics of AI necessarily address the processes that generate our data and the impacts that automated decisions will have, neither ML tools nor proposed ML-based mitigation strategies tackle these problems head on. This talk explores the consequences and limitations of employing ML-based technology in the real world, the limitations of recent solutions for mitigating societal harms, and contemplates the meta-question: when should (today’s) ML systems be off the table altogether?
Yannik Thiem, Trans*Formative Philosophy: Queer, Ordinary, Intimate (Perspectives on Ethics) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Daniel Greene, Making Ethics in Machine Learning (Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Natasha Hay, Walter Benjamin’s Counter-Pedagogy and the Communicability of Historical Violence by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Anna Goldenberg, Advances and Challenges of AI in Healthcare by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Richard Zemel, Ensuring Fair and Responsible Automated Decisions (Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kristen Thomasen, Robots, Regulation, and the Changing Nature of Public Spaces by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Recent work in moral psychology has been heavily influenced by three assumptions: (1) that we can directly map notions and distinctions from ethical theory onto everyday moral psychology; (2) that in this way, we can directly uncover the psychological roots of ethical theories; and finally (3) that this allows us to directly debunk or vindicate such theories. Greene’s work on trolley dilemmas is perhaps the most ambitious example of these assumptions at work. Alas, the relation between ethical theory and the psychology of morals is not that simple. Many have criticized (3) and (2). Here, I will instead largely criticize the first assumption, which is arguably more fundamental. Focusing on the case of utilitarian judgment, I’ll show that a great deal of current research deploys this philosophical notion in a manner that is both simplistic and unhelpful. I will outline a more nuanced framework for thinking about the relation between theories like utilitarianism and ordinary psychology, and report new empirical findings utilizing this framework. These findings strongly suggest that aspects of utilitarianism that go together at the philosophical context are actually independent, and even in tension, in the psychology of ordinary folk. I will end by exploring how such work might shed light on the psychological roots of utilitarianism.
Michael Lambek, On Sorcery: Life with the Concept (Ethics@Noon) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kathryn Norlock, Do I Really Consent to Twitter's Terms of Service? (Perspectives on Ethics) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Emma McClure, Microaffirmations, Privilege, and a Duty to Redistribute (Ethics@Noon) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jeff Behrends, Ethics Education in Computer Science: The Embedded EthiCS Approach (Ethics@Noon) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
John Basl & Jeff Behrends, Why Everyone Has It Wrong About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
John Basl, Artifact Welfare?: A Problem of Exclusion for Biocentrism (Perspectives on Ethics) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Elena Comay del Junco, Aristotle and the Ethics of Nature (Ethics@Noon) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Marzyeh Ghassemi, Can Machines Learn from Our Mistakes? (Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Luvell Anderson, Navigating Racial Satire (Perspectives on Ethics) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jill Ross, Horatian Poetics and Moral Theory in the Middle Ages by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Teresa Heffernan, The Ethical Imagination: Humanities versus Artificial Intelligence by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ifeoma Ajunwa, The Paradox of Automation as Anti-Bias Intervention (Ethics of AI in Context) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Author Meets Critics: Mark Kingwell: Reply (5/5) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Author Meets Critics: Mark Kingwell: Commentary by Ira Wells (4/5) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Author Meets Critics: Mark Kingwell: Commentary by Molly Sauter (3/5) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Author Meets Critics: Mark Kingwell: Commentary by Lauren Bialystok (2/5) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Author Meets Critics: Mark Kingwell: Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface, Introduction (1/5) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nagla Rizk: Artificial Intelligence and Inequality in the Middle East by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Theresa Enright, Underground Arts: The Cultural Politics of Mass Transit by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Benjamin Berger, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty, and the Heart of Religious Freedom by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sheila McIlraith, Making Good Decisions and Getting AI to Do the Same by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jennifer Morton, The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Robert Vipond, What Does it Take to be "Truly One of Us"? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kiel Brennan-Marquez, "Fair Notice" in the Age of Big Data by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jason Jackson, The Ethics of AI: A Political Economy Approach by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Anton Korinek, Economic and Ethical Perspectives on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Jason Millar, Social Failure Modes in Technology: Implications for AI by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Tom Slee, Private Sector AI: Ethics and Incentives by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Thilo Schaefer: Balancing Self-Determination and Exclusion in the Housing Market by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Chelsea Barabas, Beyond Accuracy and Bias: The Pursuit of “Ethical AI” in Criminal Law by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ashley Rubin, Deviance, Deviants, and Dirtbags by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Risk Intersectional Inequalities and Racial Proxies by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rachel Nolan, The Ethics of International Adoption by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Étienne Brown, Misinformation and Freedom of Expression by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Tracey Lauriault, From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Patti Lenard, The Ethics of Citizen Selection of Refugees for Resettlement by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics of AI in Context: Michael Kearns, The Ethical Algorithm by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Das et al, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Diagnostics and the Limits of Certainty by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics@Noon: Nicola Lacetera, Ethical Concerns and the Reach of Markets: Paying Kidney Donors by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics in the City: Ken Greenberg, A Human-centred Use of Technology in Cities by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics of AI: Avery Slater, Kill Switch: The Ethics of the Halting Problem by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics of AI in Context: John Vervaeke, Why the Creation of AI Requires the Cultivation of Wisdom by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics@Noon: Colin Grey, "Cosmopolitan Pariahs" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Author Meets Critics: Hilary Evans Cameron, "Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics Of AI In Context Mark S. Fox Accountable AI Systems by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Perspectives on Ethics: Nils Holtug, Does Nationhood Promote Egalitarian Justice? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
E.G. Rajan, Crime Prediction Support System by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, response to E.G. Rajan by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Simone Chambers: Democracy and Constitutional Reform by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ethics of AI: Moshe Vardi,The Ethical Crisis in Computing? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Perspectives On Ethics- Lea Ypi Eleven Theses On Migration In The Capitalist State by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Perspectives on Ethics: Klaus Günther, Freedom in a Universe of Echoes? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Peter Brooks, The Chameleon Poet and the Ethics of Reading by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ronald Deibert, These Are the Sensors in My Neighbourhood by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kathryn Hume, Ethical Algorithms: Bias and Explainability in Machine Learning Systems by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Building Cities Better, Building Better Cities: Are We Building Smart Cities on Dumb Information Systems?
Jessica Rosenfeld, Winners, Wasters, and the Shadow of Envy by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Bianca Wylie, Countering the Digital Consensus: The Political Economy of the Smart City by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
John-Stewart Gordon, Moral Experts vs. Ethical Theories by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Regina Rini, Democracy and Social Media are Incompatible: Now What? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mireille Hildebrandt, The Ethics of Smart Cities: Interacting with Non-Human Agents by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mariana Valverde, Ethics in the City: The End of Public Works? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Pamela Robinson, Canadian Smart Cities: Defining the Public Good by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mireille Hildebrandt, Ethics of AI in Context: The Ethics of Agonistic Machine Learning by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Frank Rudzicz, Ethics of AI in Context: The Future of Automated Healthcare by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mariana Valverde, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mark Fox, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
John Lorinc, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ruben Gaetani, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Kristina Verner, Sidewalk Toronto: Ethics in the "Smart City" by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Audrey Macklin, Resettler Society: Private Refugee Sponsorship and Citizenship by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Molly Sauter, Algorithmic Ethics and Personhood by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Hector Levesque, Rethinking the Place of Thinking in Intelligent Behaviour by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nick Smith, Apologies as Remedies / Apologies as Weapons by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Brian Cantwell Smith, Reckoning and Judgment by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sunit Das, Medical, Legal and Ethical Definitions of Futility by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nico Lacetera, Corporate Apologies and the Ethics of Trust by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Daryl Koehn, The Business Ethics of CEO Apologies by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Teddy Harrison, Apologies and Violence in Criminal Justice by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Nick Smith, Practical Advice for Sentencing Apologetic Offenders by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Cindy Holder, Whose Wrong Is It Anyway? Reflecting on the Public-ness of Public Apologies by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Simon Stern, Atonement, Closure, and Narrative by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mark Kingwell, Apologies: A Stylistic Investigation by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mayana Slobodian, Finding Canada’s Official Apology at the Truth & Reconciliation Commission by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Impermanent Apologies: On the Dynamics of Timing and Public Knowledge in Political Apology
Sorry Seems to be the Easiest Word: The Gay Pardon in Canada and the ‘Rehabilitation’ of Queer History
Patrick Keilty, Sorry/Not Sorry: Sexual Regulation and Apology at the Toronto Police Service by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Douglas Elliott, So Sorry: The Legal Myths and Social Realities of the Official Apology by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Lucia Zedner, Policing Civility in Public Space: Civil Orders and Uncivil Practices by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Sunit Das, Ethics of AI: AI in Medicine: Hopes? Nightmares? by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
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Eva-Lynn Jagoe, The Ethics of the Individual by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mark Kingwell, Ethics of AI in Context, Respect and the Artificial Other by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Aaron Ancell, Utopianism and Political Irrationality by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Joe Halpern, Moral Responsibility, Blameworthiness, and Intention: In Search of Formal Definitions by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Artist by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Avvy Go, How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Yasmin Dawood, How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Craig Scott, How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Ruby Sahota, How Should We Vote? Electoral Reform in Canada by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Leonardo Augusto Zaibert, Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Artist by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Norman Ravvin, Leonard Cohen: Ethics & the Artist by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
George Elliott Clarke, Kaddish for Leonard Cohen (à la manière d’Allen Ginsberg) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Clifford Ando, Pax Romana: Peace, Pacification, and the Ethics of Empire (Apr. 4, '17) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Mireille Hildebrandt, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech (Mar 24, '17) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Frank Pasquale, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech (Mar 24, '17) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Paul Gowder, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech (Mar 24, '17) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto