Imagination 2021: Mark Kingwell

On Risk

Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Toronto Star. His recent books include the companion essay collections Unruly Voices (2012) and Measure Yourself Against the Earth (2015); Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters (2017); and Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface (2019), which won the 2020 Erving Goffman Award. His pamphlet On Risk appeared in 2020; a new volume, The Ethics of Architecture, was released in early 2021 from Oxford University Press.

Moderator: Philip Authier

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