Thursday, June 18, 2026
Congress 2026
Prof. Laura Mae Lindo led a plenary session on Pathways, Politics and Possibilities: Rethinking Philosophy as Resistance. It included Waterloo Philosophy PhD candidate Juan Marquez, high school philosophy teacher Tamara Ray, and student researchers Alacia Tshilombo, Avri Jeffcott, and Keyana Mullings. The session drew a large and enthusiastic crowd.
Prof. Patricia Marino presented her paper Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Analysis of Relative Social Willingness-To-Pay as a Method For Public Decision-Making.
Six different Waterloo Philosophy PhD students presented papers. These were:
- Kyle Adams, Assertions in Data Visualizations
- Vanita Fernandes, Upholding Choice: The Right to Refuse AI Treatment Plans
- Marco Tang, An Epistemic Critique of Integrating the Concept of Adaptive Preferences into Clinical Care
- Maddy Kenyon, Saying (True) Things About Sexual Consent
- James Ralph, Yes or No(thing)? On Presupposition, Intimacy, and Why Consent is Necessary for Ethical Sex
- Ian Hartlen, Artificial Articulation: Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models