Melissa Hernández Parra
Doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Montreal.
Positions held
| 2023-2024 to today | Student(s), Fundamental ethics |
| 2025-2026 to today | Graduate fellow(s), Fundamental ethics |
Participation in CRÉ events
| 27 April 2026 | (Décom)poser les limites : dialogues et enjeux actuels |
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| 25 March 2026 | The Faces of Responsibility |
| 3 February 2026 | First Session – CRÉ Graduate Fellows’ Seminar |
Biography
Melissa Hernández Parra is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Montreal, under the supervision of Christine Tappolet (UdeM). She has received the Hypatie Excellence Scholarship from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, the Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Medal for Academic Excellence (2015-2020) awarded by the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, and the Academic Excellence Award from the Government of the State of Mexico (2017). She holds a bachelor’s degree in law and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, as well as a master’s degree in law from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. Before undertaking her doctoral studies, she practiced civil and family law for several years, an experience that informs her current thinking on the links between moral responsibility and legal responsibility.
Her research focuses on moral responsibility and the conditions for its attribution in contexts characterized by plurality of norms and practices. Her thesis project, entitled Responsabilité, pratiques et relativisme moral, aims to examine the extent to which variations in judgments of responsibility across different cultural contexts can be reconciled with a pluralistic conception of moral normativity, thereby defending a moderate relativist position.
melissa.hernandez.parra@umontreal.ca
