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Ultimate Integrity: A Reformulation of Unlimited Liability
No full textThis paper examines the idea of Unlimited Liability in the ethos of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as a reason for the acceptance of lethal risk tasking faced by its members. It argues that the idea of Unlimited Liability is at best unhelpful as a concept and needs to be replaced with ‘ultimate integrity.’ This new concept links directly to the CAF’s first ethical principle: respect the dignity of all persons. It also corresponds better with our beliefs about the nobility of military sacrifice
The State of Court Administration in Ontario: A Preliminary Analysis of the Post-COVID Environment in the Ontario Court of Justice
No full textCanadian courts have been struggling with delay and backlog for decades. Unnecessary and excessive delay in courts is an ethical issue which results in suffering by litigants and witnesses and dilutes the quality of justice. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the situation became dire. Now that the pandemic has been declared over, we have an opportunity to take note of where things stand. This article looks at the current state through an analysis of the Ontario Court of Justice, and the decision in R. v C.L. As will become apparent, judges are doing all they can under the circumstances and any solution to the current conditions requires a renewed discussion of alternative models of court administration and judicial independence. The paper concludes with the suggestion that it is time to take a fresh look at the recommendations found in Masters in their own house and Administering Justice For the Public
Ask the philosopher: practical advice and self-help in antiquity and today
No full textThis paper examines the genre of practical philosophical treatises in antiquity, contrasting it with contemporary literature in philosophical practice. Its main focus concerns the role of the philosopher as a guide to practical everyday concerns and the relationship between theoretical and practical ethics. An important question for ancient works on practical philosophy (and to a lesser extent their contemporary equivalents) has to do with whether, and to what extent, adopting the philosopher’s advice also requires an adoption of that person’s broader philosophical framework (Stoicism, Neoplatonism, Skepticism, etc.). Philosophers tend to put heavy emphasis on the existence of a broader philosophical theory that coheres logically with the practical advice a philosopher may offer. This emphasis is clearly reduced in contemporary works on practical philosophy. I discuss some evident advantages of the ancient philosophical approach in connecting theoretical principles with practical advice, and conclude with some thoughts on how philosophers might write popular works on practical philosophy nowadays
A Little Shelter from the Storm: COVID-19 and the ‘Atlantic Bubble’
No full textThe ‘Atlantic Bubble’ (hereafter AB) is often conflated with the impressive resistance to COVID-19 outbreaks in Atlantic Canada. My paper discusses the evolution of that resistance as a way of clarifying this distinction. Understood as a political plan, AB features a response to COVID-19 which contrasts with the reaction in much of the rest of Canada. As a result, it has practical implications for future political planning in Canada, especially vis-à-vis epidemiological risk assessment. I conclude with a brief survey of the broader questions raised by AB, arguing that there are philosophical assumptions about the nature of community in Atlantic Canada which have been critical in its fight against COVID-19
Seeing Differences Differently: Peter Best and Morally Relevant Differences
No full textRecently, I benefited from reflecting on Best’s arguments in There is no Difference. Accepting his argument chain to establish that there is no difference between individual Indigenous personsand European persons, we agree that Indigenous persons and Europeans have the same humanity, moral worth and individual moral human rights. Hence, we agree that Indigenous persons in Canada should legally have equal human rights. The moral difference Best sees, and I no longer see, is between Indigenous nations and European nations. For Best, differences between nations can make one nation superior to another. Challenging Best’s superior-inferior-nation hierarchy, I argue that liberal theory assigns normative status to a difference between Canada and Indigenous Nations which justifies Best’s normative judgment, “The nation-to-nation treaty relationship is a fiction.” However, I show that the nation in the nation-to-nation relationship is Canada
The Canadian Apprenticeship of Jazz-Age Baseball Superstar Urban Shocker
No full textThe pitcher Urban Shocker—who was once one of Babe Ruth’s most successful antagonists before be-coming his teammate on the legendary 1927 New York Yankees—underwent his formative baseball training inCanada. Today Urban Shocker is best known as a star pitcher with the St. Louis Browns and New York Yankees,but he also had important connections to Canada, which are no longer as well known. This article examines thefact that Shocker initially honed his impressive skills in Windsor, Ottawa, and Toronto.Le lanceur Urban Shocker, qui a été un de artilleurs ayant eu le plus de succès contre Babe Ruthavant de devenir son coéquipier au sein des légendaires Yankees de New York en 1927, est en grande partie unproduit de ligues mineures de baseball canadiennes. Aujourd’hui, Urban Shocker est surtout connu commelanceur vedette des Browns de St. Louis et des Yankees de New York, mais il avait aussi des liens importantsavec le Canada, qui ne sont plus aussi connus. Cet article examine le fait que Shocker a d’abord perfectionné sesimpressionnantes compétences à Windsor, Ottawa et Toronto
30 by 30 – A long way to go for Canada?
No full textBetween 1970 and 2012, marine wildlife populations have declined by 49% (World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 2015, p.6). Over 90% of the typical fish populations in the oceans are fully exploited, overexploited, or depleted (Kituyi, 2018). In Canada, less than one in three fish stocks (30.4%) can be considered healthy (Thorne, 2021). Nevertheless, the oceans play an integral part for all life on earth and are crucial for tackling the climate crisis. They absorb up to 90% of the excess heat resulting from climate change and play a vital role as a carbon sink by absorbing up to 23% of human emissions (World Bank, 2022). Additionally, they have a considerable social and economic importance; in Canada, marine activities like fishing, tourism and oil and gas extraction account for about 1.6% of Canada’s total employment and gross domestic product (GDP) (Ganter et al., 2021)
Embedding Digital Fluency in Our Courses: Moving from Theory to Practice
No full textAn increasing amount of literature from academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations (Kluzer, Reyna, Hanham, & Meier, 2018; Kluzer & Pujol Priego, 2018, etc.) points to the need for post-secondary institutions to do more to prepare students to be fluent in the consumption, understanding and use of digital media and tools. Digital fluency is increasingly seen as an essential skillset for graduates’ employability and for their citizenship, but while there is strong consensus about the need for students to be more digitally fluent, there is less consensus about what digitally fluency is, or about how to teach it.
This paper will offer a working definition of digital fluency and describe an approach to fostering student digital fluency development that can be applied to a wide range of courses. Drawing on frameworks by various governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as current scholarship in the field of teaching digital literacy (Ng, 2012.; Caufiled, 2017, Ungerer, 2016, Hinrichsen & Coombs, 2013, etc.), the paper will provide an explanation of the rationale behind the framework tool that the author has developed and the paper will conclude with an explanation of how to use the tool to embed specific and authentic digital fluency skill development at the course level
Intellectual Virtue in Critical Thinking and Its Instruction : Introduction to a Symposium
No full textHow is intellectual virtue related to critical thinking? Can one be a critical thinker without exercising intellectual virtue? Can one be intellectually virtuous without thereby being a critical thinker? How should our answers to these questions inform the instruction of critical thinking? These were the questions informing the 2023 Charles McCracken endowed lectureships given at Michigan State University by Professors Harvey Siegel and Jason Baehr. This brief commentary introduces their respective papers, which appear in the current issue of Informal Logic.Comment la vertu intellectuelle est-elle liée à la pensée critique? Peut-on être un penseur critique sans exercer la vertu intellectuelle? Peut-on être intellectuellement vertueux sans pour autant être un penseur critique? Comment nos réponses à ces questions devraient-elles éclairer l\u27enseignement de la pensée critique? Telles étaient les questions qui ont guidé les conférences dotées par Charles McCracken en 2023, présentées à l’Université Michigan State par les professeurs Harvey Siegel et Jason Baehr. Ce bref commentaire présente leurs articles respectifs, qui paraissent dans le numéro actuel de Informal Logic