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Whataboutisms : le Bon, le Mauvais et le Truand
No full textThe rhetorical function of whataboutism is to redirect attention from the specific case at hand. Although commonly used as a rhetorical move, whataboutisms can appear in arguments. These tend to be weak arguments and are often instances of the tu quoque fallacy or other fallacies of relevance. In what follows, I show that arguments involving a whataboutist move can take a wide variety of forms, and in some cases, they can occur in good arguments. I end by considering how whataboutist arguing in social justice contexts can be harmful to arguers and to the audiences for their arguments.La fonction rhétorique du qu’en-est-ilisme est de détourner l\u27attention du cas spécifique en question. Bien qu\u27ils soient couramment utilisés comme mouvement rhétorique, les qu’en-est-ilismes peuvent apparaître dans les arguments. Ceux-ci ont tendance à être des arguments faibles et sont souvent des exemples de l\u27erreur tu quoque ou d\u27autres erreurs de pertinence. Dans ce qui suit, je montre que les arguments impliquant un mouvement qu’en-est-iliste peuvent prendre une grande variété de formes, et dans certains cas, ils peuvent se produire dans de bons arguments. Je termine en considérant comment l\u27argumentation qu’en-est-iliste dans des contextes de justice sociale peut être préjudiciable à ceux qui avancent des arguments et au public pour leurs arguments
The Complexities of Authority in the Classroom: Fostering Democracy for Student Learning
No full textThis is a book review ofThe Complexities of Authority in the Classroom: Fostering Democracy for Student Learning edited by Ken Badley and Margaretta Patrick
A 1960s Course in Medical Ethics in a Canadian Medical School
No full textFrom 1963 until 1969, Reginald (Reg) Perkin, a physician, presented a series of lectures on medical ethics to fourth-year medical students. His approach to both the teaching of medical ethics and his understanding of what constitutes medical ethics are revealed through an interview with him and the notes he used for his lectures. This paper provides an example of a medical ethics course taught prior to the 1970s development of the discipline of bioethics. It argues that there is significant alignment with later medical ethics curricula structured around questions posed by Martin McKneally and Peter Singer in 2001
National Responsibilities to Citizens: Past or Present?
No full textThroughout history governments have neglected, mistreated, or intentionally harmed their own citizens. In Canada this includes the denial of equal rights, the internment of Japanese Canadians during and after WWII, and the forced expulsion of the Acadians in1755, as well as other events. In the literature on reparations, the most popular examples of harm perpetrated by a state is the capture and enslavement of Africans and the acquisition of Aboriginal lands during European exploration and colonization in North America.
In this paper I will examine the argument for reparative claims against nations. I will argue that when we closely examine the case for reparative justice, it becomes clear that a distributive justice account would be more effective and less problematic than appeals to corrective justice. Further, when looking at the claims of past versus present citizens upon the nation, distributive justice provides a method to determine where responsibility lies
The Myth of Progress? Critical Theory and the Debate Over Progress
No full textPhilosophy as a discipline has generally claimed that human beings have a capacity called practical reason that allows us to address moral-practical questions. Applied to historical change, this yields an account of progress as a process of rationalization. The 20th century has produced a long line of radical critiques of this idea of progress. My central aim is to defend contemporary critical theory’s reliance on the idea of progress as an emancipatory process of rationalization. Because she engages deeply and directly with the accounts of progress I seek to defend, my focus is on Amy Allen’s critique and an array of closely allied recent criticism. I address Allen’s two general objections to progress as a fact, one political and the other epistemological. Against contemporary critical theory, I maintain, neither objection gains traction, since no truly emancipatory project can succeed once the idea of progress has been abandoned, both as a goal and a fact about our past
Engaging with Indigenous Philosophy with an Indigenous Philosopher
No full textThis paper tells the story of an encounter between Wisakaychak, a trickster in the Omushkego tradition, and the Strange Stranger. The latter is engrossed in trying to determine what he can know beyond any doubt. Wisakaychak engages his partner in dialogue. By posing suitable questions to him, Wisakaychak is able to elicit answers from him, including the answer to the riddle of his own identity
The Pandemic, Sociability, and Citizenship
No full textWe have experienced social isolation in response to COVID-19. In particular, our weak ties (ties among acquaintances rather than between family and friends) have been trimmed. I argue, based on the work of Granovetter, Nussbaum, Talisse, and Lanoix, that this trimming of weak ties has consequences, not just for well-being, but also for how we practice social citizenship. I conclude with the suggestion that we make use of research on how to build resilience in individuals, in the hopes that resilient individuals will be in a better position to rebuild some of what the pandemic has destroyed
I Don’t Wanna Die: Punk Rock Music and Culture as Critical Social Work Practice
No full textPunk is a music genre and counter-culture that has provided community and empowerment to generations of traumatized youth. This article is a case study on the use of punk rock counter-culture through the expression of music as a critical social work practice within a psychiatric outpatient clinic. The clinic, Lane County Behavioral Health, was founded during the deinstitutionalization era of psychiatric care for the treatment of “severe and persistent mental illness.” The article describes the formation of the group, the shared personal and cultural history of the therapist with group members, and the critical engagement with psychiatric violence generated through the composition of punk music. In this, the process of composition and the lyrical content of four songs are provided. Each of these four songs demonstrate a connection of the personal experiences of psychiatric violence to a political protest against psychiatric violence. While the article focuses on the experience of punks in the psychiatric clinic, the implementation of relationality and personal-political experience are applicable beyond the punk counter-culture. The article concludes with discussion elaborating ways in which a relational analytic group can be implemented within tight knit counter-cultural communities
Admissibility of Hearsay Gathered Under MLAT: A Tempest in Canada
No full textOne of the most pervasive and longstanding problems in the practice of mutual legal assistance in criminal matters between states has been ‘form of evidence’ – specifically, can the requested state provide evidence in such form as will be useful and admissible under the criminal evidence laws of the requesting state? It tends to be common law states that have difficulties with admissibility of MLAT-sourced evidence, and these often develop ‘work-arounds’ in their laws which attempt to relax admissibility standards. Canada is one such state, but a series of recent prosecutions has revealed judicial resistance to the tools employed. This note examines these cases and suggests some lessons they contain for broader practice