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(705) 675-1151, ext. 3704

myeo@laurentian.ca

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Preparing third edition of ethics textbook;

Preparing analytic paper for Privacy Commission of Canada;

A reading of Orwell on privacy, propaganda and panopticism;

Research ethics;

Speech act theory as applied to reading public policy documents.

Key figures and themes:

Plato, Shakespeare, Kant, Kierkegaard, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Orwell

Critique of applied and professional ethics; research ethics; speech act theory; ethics and public policy; interpretation theory; philosophical hermeneutics; existentialism and phenomenology; philosophy as institutionalized; the university; metafiction; critique of interdisciplinarity.

Yeo, M., & Lucock, C. “Quality v. Equality: The Divided Court in Chaoulli v. Quebec.” Health Law Journal,  Vol. 14 (2006): 129-150.

Yeo, M. Biobank Research: The Conflict Between Privacy and Access Made Explicit.  Analytic paper commissioned by the Canadian Advisory Council on Biotechnology. 2004.

Yeo, M., & Andy Brooks. “The Moral Framework of Confidentiality and the Electronic Panopticon.” In Confidential Relationships: Psychoanalystic, Ethical and Legal Contexts. Eds. Christine Koggel, Allanah Furlong & Charles Levin. Netherlands, Rodopi Press. 2003. 85-112.

Yeo, M. “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 168. May 2003. 1273-1274; 1275.

Recent Teaching

Interdisciplinary PhD in Human Studies

HUST 6156 -- Theories in Interdisciplinarity (2007)

M.A. in Humanities

HUMA 5346 – Metafiction (2007)

HUMA 5116 – Core I: Interpretation and Values (2006)

HUMA 5456 – Imagining the Future (2006)

HUMA 5117 - Core II: Interpretation and Values (2006)

Undergraduate Program in Philosophy
PHIL 4006 – Honour’s Seminar: Socrates, Descartes, Derrida, Husserl (2005)