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I’m C Dalrymple-Fraser (they/them), an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. I teach and research in the areas of practical ethics, and especially the ethics and epistemology of health.

My research explores the question “what’s missing?” broadly construed. More narrowly, I’m interested in the ways that our dominant theories, models, research questions, methods, measurements, systems, and policies – in general, our ways of knowing – can exclude or obscure parts of the world, and how we should respond to the resulting gaps, silences, disappearances, and absences. I ask these questions primarily in the spaces of health and healthcare, with a focus on queer, disabled, and/or trans communities. Some further information is available on my research page.

These same questions inform some of my approaches to teaching. I focus on building student competencies in critical appraisal and analysis, with deliberate focuses on underrepresented communities and theories in philosophy and health ethics. You can learn a bit more about my approaches to teaching here.

Recent and upcoming:

• Nov 2025: I will be presenting in the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre seminar series.
• Oct 2025: I will be presenting at the Midwestern Medical Humanities Conference.
• Apr 2025: I was an invited presenter on banned language with Oakland University’s Burke Symposium on Neurodiversity and Mental Health.
• Nov 2024: I was a panelist on disability ethics education with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre’s symposium on “Disability Ethics: Within and Beyond a Canadian Context.”
• Dec 2024: I was a presenter on disability and crumpling science in the “Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 5” conference.
• Teaching: I am teaching PHL281: Bioethics in the fall 2025 term, PHL383: Ethics and Mental Health in the winter 2026 term, and running PHL489: Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Socrates Project throughout the year.
• Research: I am currently working on an entry for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. I am also preparing a few papers concerning evidence in suicide prevention research, silence as a form of resistance, narrative scarring, and teaching strategies in bioethics.