Wesley Cragg,
York University Christine Koggel,
Bryn Mawr College
ISBN: 0070930104 Copyright year: 2005
About the Contributors
Brian Slattery is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor in the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. He recently acted as senior researcher and advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Michael McDonald is the Chair of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. He is the former editor of Dialogue, the official journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association.
David Gauthier is a former Chair of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of Morals by Agreement (1986).
J.T. Stevenson has written extensively in the field of applied ethics and the history of Canadian political and social thought. He is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Kofi Annan is Secretary-General of the United Nations. He earned his master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Steve Kerstetter is a freelance social policy consultant and research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He retired in 2000 as director of the National Council of Welfare.
Bruce Porter was director of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Toronto from 1986-2002. Currently, he is Coordinator of the Charter Committee on Poverty Issues, Director of Social Rights Advocacy Centre, and acts as a human rights consultant.
Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Christine M. Koggel is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She has served two terms as a member of the Canadian Philosophical Association's Standing Committee on Equity Issues and is the author of Perspectives on Equality (1998) and as well as a number of journal articles.
Amartya Sen is the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics. He is Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, and has held teaching positions at Harvard University, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics, among others.
Northrop Frye , now deceased, is one of Canada's eminent literary scholars. His essays on Canadian culture are collected in a small volume entitled Divisions on a Ground (1982).
Mary Midgley, formerly a member of the University of Newcastle, England, is now retired. She is well known for her writing in applied ethics.
Tom Regan is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at North Carolina State University. He has written numerous articles and books, including The Case for Animal Rights (1984).
Jan Narveson, the author of Moral Matters (1993) and Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice (2002), teaches at the University of Waterloo.
Andrew Brook is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Chair of the Cognitive Science Management Committeee at Carleton University.
Wesley Cragg is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Philosophy Department and Schulich School of Business at York University. He is widely published, with recent texts including Canadian Issues in Applied Environmental Ethics (1999) and The Practice of Punishment: Toward a Theory of Restorative Justice (1992).
Craig Mackenzie is, in addition to being a member of several business ethics and advisory boards, Head of Socially Responsible Investment at the asset management arm of HBOS plc, one of Europe's largest banks.
Doreen McBarnet is a Reader in Sociology at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
Conrad G. Brunk is the Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria, previously posted as Professor of Philosophy and Academic Dean at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo.
Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States. After leaving office, he founded the Carter Center, a non-profit organization promoting peace, human rights, democracy, and economic development worldwide.
Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, an Oxford-educated barrister, has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1997.
Mohamad Bydon is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a senior fellow in Near Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Michael Ignatieff, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights Policy, is Director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. He is an acclaimed author and regular contributor to BBC programming.
Trudy Govier, formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, is a professional speaker and author, having recently published A Delicate Balance: What Philosophy Can Tell Us About Terrorism (2002).
Immanuel Kant was a prominent 18th-century German philosopher who made significant contributions in all areas of philosophy. Some of his important works are Critique of Pure Reason, Prolegomena to All Future Metaphysics, and The Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals.
David B. Wong is the author of Moral Relativity (1984). He is a Professor of Philosophy at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Annette C. Baier is retired from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She has numerous publications on moral theory including Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics (1994) and Postures of the Mind: Essays on Mind and Morals (1985).
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