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Agnes Tam
Ph.D., 2020
Philosophy
Arts and Science
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Research Interests
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics (especially practical reason)
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- PhD, Philosophy, Queen鈥檚 University
- Dissertation: 鈥淣orms, Reasons, and Moral Progress鈥
- Committee: Will Kymlicka (Chair), Jackie Davis, Colin Farrelly, Margaret Moore, Joseph Heath
- MSc, Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science
- LLB, Law, University of Hong Kong
- Exchange JD, Law, Tulane University
I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the at the University of Calgary beginning July 2022. I am currently a Banting Postdoctoral Researcher of the at McGill University. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the of Concordia University. For more information about my research, .
Publications
- (2020) 鈥淲hy Moral Reasoning is Insufficient for Moral Progress鈥, Journal of Political Philosophy 28(1): 73-96.
- (2021) 鈥淭he Legitimacy of Groups: Toward a We-Reasoning View鈥, Analyse & Kritik 42(2): 343-68.
- (2021) 鈥淎 Case for Political Epistemic Trust鈥, in K. Vallier and M. Weber (eds.), Social Trust, Routledge, 220-41.
- (forthcoming) 鈥淏eing Popular and Being Just: How Animal Protection Organizations Can be Both鈥, in V. Giroux, A. Pepper, and K. Voigt (eds.), Ethics of Animal Shelters, Oxford University Press (with Will Kymlicka).