Presentations

Presentations	October 19, 2013     October 18, 2013       November 16, 2012     September 28, 2012     March 2, 2012     January 27, 2012     October 21, 2011     September 16, 2011     October 26, 2010     August 27, 2010     August 25, 2010     August 24, 2010     July 7, 2010     May 27, 2009	Is it Naïve Absolutely to Oppose Evil? Peace and Justice Studies Association Annual General meeting, Waterloo, Ontario   Remembering Canada in World War I: Anticipating the Vimy Ridge Centenary. Peace and Justice Studies Association Annual General meeting, Waterloo, Ontario   Can Lesser-Evils Reasoning be Moral? Wilfrid Laurier University Department of Philosophy, Kitchener, Ontario   Is it Naïve to Oppose Torture? University of Windsor Department of Philosophy, Windsor, Ontario   Torture, Violence and Privilege. TASK Program. King’s University College.   Torture, Identity and Sociality. University of Western Ontario Faculty of Education Equity and Social Justice Day.   Panel Member, The Death of an Imam. King’s University College, London, Ontario.   Torture, Violence and Privilege. TASK Program. King’s University College.   What’s wrong with the ticking bomb? King’s University College Alumni Association, Ottawa Ontario branch, Ottawa, Ontario   Walzer, obligatory immorality, and supreme emergency. Department of Philosophy, the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.   Tragic choices and dirty hands. Department of Philosophy, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia   Torture, spirituality and agency. Public Lecture. Notre Dame University. Fremantle, Australia   Defending the non-derogability of torture. International Peace Research Association Biannual General Meeting, Sydney, Australia   An empirical critique of interrogational torture. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario.
	December 5, 2008	In defense of article 2.2 of the united nations convention against torture. International Conference on Human Rights: Commemorating 60 years of the Declaration of Human Rights. Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
	November 25, 2008	The unjustifiability of torture. Book launch of The absolute violation: Why torture must be prohibited. Brandon University, Brandon, MB, Canada.
	July 16, 2008	The unjustifiability of torture. Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
	July 5, 2007	What about the ticking bomb? Queensland Greens Party, Brisbane, Australia
	February 23, 2007	A filthy problem: Torture and deliberate evil doing. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
	February 22, 2007	The indefensibility of torture. Amnesty International, Queensland Branch, Brisbane, Australia
	February 21, 2007	Torture and narrative: An absolute violation of the self.           Confessions: Confounding Narrative and Ethics, A Symposium Centre for Social Change Research Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
	February 19, 2007	Torture and evil consequences. University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia
	February 15, 2007	On neither excusing, permitting, nor justifying torture.             Faculty of Law Public Lecture Series Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
	October 2006	The limitations of the dirty hands problem. Atlantic Region Philosophical Association University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University Fredericton, New Brunswick
	September 2006	Why privatization is not a general solution to environmental problems: Critical reflections on free-market environmentalism. Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition Moncton, New Brunswick
	August 2006	Leibniz and the necessary actuality of evil: Questioning the absolute. Mount Allison University Conference on the Philosophy of Religion
	May 2006	Torture and emergency. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting York University, Toronto, Ontario
	March 2006	Dirty hands and the problem of torture. Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
	October 2005	Radically interpreting dead languages. Atlantic Region Philosophical Association Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland
	May 2005	Davidson, the indefinability of truth, and interpretation. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting London, Ontario
	May 2005	The limits of transcendence. Society for European and Postmodern Thought Annual General Meeting London, Ontario
	October 2004	Lynch, the fluid a priori, and alethic realism. Atlantic Region Philosophical Association Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
	February 2004	Some reservations about cosmopolitan history. Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Institut Hanover Moralität und Politik in Kants Religionsschrift Conference Hanover, Germany
	October 2003	Ethical pluralism and relativism.                    Atlantic Region Philosophical Association Universite de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick
	May 2003	Devitt and anti-realism. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting Halifax, Nova Scotia
	February 2003	Anti-realism and reason. Hanover Department of Philosophy Hanover, Germany
	January 2003	Resolving conflicts of interest. HMCS Cabot Naval Reserve Division Professional Ethics Seminar St. John’s, Newfoundland
	October 2002	Why we must shelter individuals from environmental change. Atlantic Region Philosophical Association Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
	October 2002	Ethical problems with document falsification. HMCS Cabot Naval Reserve Division Professional Ethics Seminar St. John’s, Newfoundland
	October 2000	Conceptual and pragmatic inadequacies of informed consent documents. Canadian Bioethics Society, Ottawa
	October 1994	Heidegger’s poet Führer. Atlantic Philosophical Association Annual General Meeting Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Newfoundland
	March 1993	Heidegger’s task of thinking. Canadian Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy Calgary, Alberta