Teaching 2011-2012
PHIL 4006EL 01 (1) : HONOURS SEMINARS
(2011f)
MONDAYS 19:00-22:00
HUST 6156EL 01 (1) Theories of Interdisciplinarity
(2011F)
Tuesdays 16:00-19:00
HUMA 5117EL 01 (1 & 2): CORE ii
(2011f AND 2012w)
TUESDAYS 19:00-22:00
Key Figures and Areas of study:
- Main figures of study: Kierkegaard, Merleau-Ponty
- Main figures of interest: Plato, Kant, Derrida, Shakespeare, Orwell
- Areas of study and interest: critique of applied and professional ethics; professionalism; privacy; research ethics; speech act theory; ethics and public policy; hermeneutics; existentialism; phenomenology; philosophy as institutionalized; the ethics and politics of the university; critique of interdisciplinarity; metafiction.
Recent representative Work:
Yeo, M. “Do Family Physicians Agree on What Professionalism is?” Debates (and Rebuttal) Canadian Family Physician, Vol. 55 (Oct. 2009): 968-971.
Professionalism Family Medicine.pdf
Yeo, M., Emery, J.C.H., & Kary, D. The Private Insurance Debate in Canadian Health Policy: Making the Values Explicit. SPP Research Paper: The Health Series, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Volume 2, Issue 3 ( June 2009).
Making Values Explicit.pdf
Yeo, M. Looking Out from Inside the Panopticon: A Privacy Perspective on Biobanking. Analytic paper commissioned by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada for 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (May 2007).
Privacy and Biobanking (Privacy Commission of Canada).pdf
Lucock, C., & Yeo, M. “Naming Names: The Pseudonym in the Name of the Law.” University of Ottawa Journal of Law and Technology. Volume 3, 1. (2006): 53-108.
Pseudonym Paper.pdf
Yeo, M., & Lucock, C. “Quality v. Equality: The Divided Court in Chaoulli v. Quebec.” Health Law Journal, Vol. 14 (2006): 129-150.
Chaoulli Paper.pdf
Yeo, M. Biobank Research: The Conflict Between Privacy and Access Made Explicit. Analytic paper commissioned by the Canadian Advisory Council on Biotechnology (2004).
Privacy and Biobanking (National Advisory Council on Biotechn.pdf
Current Research and research interests:
preparing third edition of ethics textbook
reflective enquiry in the humanities
Reflective Enquiry Essay October 2009.pdf
the relationship between science (fact) and policy (values)
Orwell and privacy
the ethics and politics of professionalism
the politics of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity
LInk to Laurentian Graduate Programs of which I am member:
M.A. in Interpretation and Values
http://laurentian.ca/Laurentian/Home/Departments/Humanities+MA/
Interdisciplinary PhD in Human Studies
http://laurentian.ca/Laurentian/Home/Departments/PhD+in+Human+Studies/
Interdisciplinary PhD in Rural and Northern Health
http://laurentian.ca/Laurentian/Home/Departments/PhD+in+Rural+and+Northern+Health/
Recent Teaching:
Interdisciplinary PhD in Human Studies
HUST 6156 – Theories in Interdisciplinarity (2009)
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 4007 – Honour’s Seminar: How to do Things with Speech Act Theory (2008)
PHIL 3476 – Existentialism (2008)
PHIL 4006 – Honour’s Seminar: Plato, Descartes, Derrida, Husserl (2005)