UBC PPE Course Conversations are exchanges recorded to serve as teaching tools. In these videos, UBCO faculty converse either with each other or with noteworthy faculty from other institutions about issues covered in their teaching.
This Course Conversation is attached to Dr. Garner’s course on the ethics of war (PHIL 437). His interlocutor is Dr. Jeremy Reid, an expert on ancient political philosophy.
Renaud-Philippe Garner is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. His research is at the intersection of political and moral philosophy. He has written on the ethics of war, nationalism, virtue signalling, historical injustices, and political passions.
Jeremy Reid is an association professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University. Reid’s research focuses on the history of ethics and political philosophy, primarily in Greek and Roman philosophy. On the political side, he is interested in the development of constitutionalism, democratic theory and the use of moral psychology and theories of character in political philosophy, particularly in non-ideal circumstances. On the ethical side, Reid has worked most on ancient theories of love, sex and friendship. Before joining SF State, Reid was a postdoctoral research associate at University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at University of Arizona and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, where he focused his undergraduate studies in philosophy, musicology and the classical languages.