Prof. Simone Chambers
Fellow
Simone Chambers is Professor of Political Science at
the University of California Irvine. She has written and published on
such topics as deliberative democracy, referendums, constitutional
politics, the public sphere, secularism, rhetoric, civility, digital
misinformation and the work of J眉rgen Habermas and John Rawls. Her most
recent book, Contemporary Democratic Theory appeared with Polity Press in 2024.
Her current research project is concerned with deliberation and the future of democracy and seeks to argue that deliberative democracy offers a compelling diagnosis of what ails democracy today.
Prof. Agnes Tam
Fellow
Agnes Tam is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the nature of collective
agency and its roles in ethics and politics. She has published
extensively on the role of collective agency in moral progress. Despite
their conformist and partial tendencies, she argues that collective
agents can rationally revise their particular social norms in alignment
with universally valid moral principles. She is also the Equity Co-Chair of the
Canadian Philosophical Association and the Co-Convenor of the
Interdisciplinary Working Group on Ethics and Politics of Narrative at
the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.
Her current research proposes the concept of narrative democracy as a new ethical model for inclusive belonging in the age of migration.