Renaud-Philippe Garner

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

Office: ART 277
Office Hours: Depends on the term; see office door.
Email: r_p.garner@ubc.ca

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Research Summary

Ethics of war/just war theory; cosmopolitanism vs nationalism; patriotism and loyalty; virtue theory; fact-sensitive views of justice; social epistemology; prudence and virtues in education.

Courses & Teaching

Introduction to Philosophy II (PHIL 121); Political and Social Philosophy (PHIL 210); Ethics (PHIL 230); Contemporary Moral Issues (PHIL 235); Virtue: Ethics and Theory (PHIL 332); Dangerous Ideas Seminar (PHIL 405); The Ethics of War and Peace (PHIL 433); Philosophy and the Global Order (PHIL 437).

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Toronto (2019)

Selected Publications & Presentations

For a complete list of public-facing interviews or writings, please consult Professor Garner’s LinkedIn page.

Publications

R-P Garner (2026) ‘To whom is revisionist just war theory of any use?’, The Philosophical Quarterly
https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqag073/8831464

R-P Garner, E. A. Greetis, and E. de Roulet (2026) ‘Bounded justice for tribal creatures: a fact-sensitive defence of patriotism’, Inquiry
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0020174X.2026.2728124

R-P Garner and N. Jamil (2026) ‘All Signal, No Virtue: How Trigger Warnings and Other Ineffective Pedagogical Practices Spread’, Journal of Controversial Ideas
https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/6/1/314/htm

R-P Garner and D. Christakos (accepted 2025/forthcoming) ‘Nihil novum sub sole: why ‘new wars’ do not render the war convention obsolete’, Journal of Military Ethics

R-P Garner and M. Godman (2024) ‘A troubled inheritance: Overcoming the temporality problem in cases of historical injustice’, Journal of Social Philosophy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/josp.12582

R-P Garner (2022) ‘Nationalism’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
https://oxfordre.com/politics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-2039

Hill and R-P Garner (2021) ‘Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem’, Synthese
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03444-6

R-P Garner (2020) ‘Why cosmopolitan war is an ethics of fantasy’, European Review of International Studies
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27142330

R-P Garner (2019) ‘Conquête’ and ‘Thumos’, in Passions sociales
https://www.cairn.info/passions-sociales–9782130798811.htm

R-P Garner (2016) ‘A Tale of Two Moralities’, Journal of Philosophy
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48568270