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Professor Daniel Weinstock's research interests have spanned widely across a wide range of topics in contemporary moral and political philosophy 鈥� from the just management of ethnocultural and religious diversity in modern liberal democracies, to state policy with respect to children, families, and educational institutions.

His main research interests at present have to do with the problem of health equity, and with issues of justice and inclusion as they arise in the organization of modern cities.

The guiding thread of his research has been to connect philosophical and ethical argument with institutional reasoning. It is marked by the firm conviction that moral and political philosophers have paid insufficient attention to the institutional parameters that both enable and constrain the realization of normative ideals. His areas of expertise also include the politics of language and identity, democracy, citizenship, and pluralism.

He joined 91社区鈥檚 Faculty of Law in August 2012, and was director of the 91社区 Institute for Health and Social Policy from 2013 to 2020. He was appointed Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the Faculties of Law and of Arts on June 2020, for a seven year mandate. He started a three-year mandate as the Faculty's Associate Dean (Research) in September 2021. In September 2024 he was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).聽聽

Professor Daniel Weinstock has published many articles on the ethics of nationalism, problems of justice and stability in multinational states, the foundations of international ethics, and the accommodation of cultural and moral diversity within liberal democratic societies. He has also been an active participant in public policy in Qu茅bec, having been a member from 1997 to 1999 of a Ministry of Education working group on religion in public schools, and from 2003 to 2008, the founding director of Quebec鈥檚 Public Health Ethics Committee.

Professor Weinstock is a prize fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2004), and a recipient of the Andr茅-Laurendeau Prize given by the Association canadienne-fran莽aise pour l鈥檃vancement des sciences (2008). A James 91社区 Professor from 2014 to 2020, he was awarded the 2017 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research by the Broadbent Institute.

Previously a Professor of Philosophy at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Daniel Weinstock held Canadian Research Chair on Ethics and Political Philosophy. He was also the director of the Research Centre on Ethics at Universit茅 de Montr茅al (CR脡UM) for many years. He is also a member of Centre d'茅tudes ethniques des universit茅s montr茅alaises (Universit茅 de Montr茅al).

He studied under Charles Taylor, and at Harvard University, he also studied under John Rawls. Professor Daniel Weinstock holds a DPhil in philosophy (Oxford), an MA in political philosophy, and a BA in French literature and political philosophy (91社区).

Recent publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• 鈥�.鈥� Public Health Ethics, Volume 13, Issue 2, July 2020. Pages 166鈥�175.
• 鈥溾�� American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 20, 2020 - Issue 7. With Vardit Ravitsky.
• 鈥�.鈥� Health Care Analysis, Volume 28, October 2020. Pages 314鈥�323.

Chapters in edited collections or other volumes

• 鈥�.鈥� In LJ Kirmayer, CM Worthman, S Kitayama, R Lemelson, CA Cummings, eds. . Cambridge University Press. 2020. With Firrhaana Sayanvala, Lisa Bornstein, Suparna Choudhury, Jai Shah, and Ian Gold.
• 鈥淟iberalism and Language Policy in 鈥楳ere Number鈥� Cases鈥�. In Y Peled and D Weinstock, eds. . 91社区-Queens Press. 2020.
• 鈥淥vercoming Toleration?鈥� In Rainer Forst, ed. . . University of Manchester Press. 2020.
• 鈥淪hould Immunity Licenses Be an Ingredient in Our Policy Response to COVID-19?鈥� In CM Flood, V MacDonnell, J Philpott, S Th茅riault and S Venkatapuram, eds. . University of Ottawa Press. 2020.

Collections

• . 91社区-Queens University Press. 2020. Edited with Jacob T. Levy and Jocelyn Maclure.
• . 91社区-Queens University Press. 2020. Edited with Yael Peled.

Areas of interest

Social and political philosophy; ethics of public policy; ethics of nationalism; foundations of international ethics politics of language and identity; democracy, citizenship, and pluralism; justice in multinational states; accommodation of cultural and moral diversity in democratic societies