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The fellows of the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité (GRIN) are pleased to invite you to their end-of-year colloquium, to be held on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:40 p.m., in room W-5215 of the Philosophy Department of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Pavillon Thérèse-Casgrain, 5th floor, 455 Boulevard René-Lévesque Est.
Event Schedule :
TIMELENGTHPRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTARYMODERATION9:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.50 minDenise Celentano (UdeM)“Temporal Control and Agency at Work”Aude Bandini (UdeM)9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.10 minBREAKBREAK10:00 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.40 minLéo Portelance (UdeM)“Considérer les patient‧es comme des acteur‧ices épistémiques : le cas de l’affection « post-COVID-19 »”Commentary by Annejulie CharestKarl-Antoine Pelchat10:40 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.40 minFélix Tremblay (UdeM)“La vérité est poésie » : Merleau-Ponty et la phénoménologie de la littérature”Karl-Antoine Pelchat11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.40 minEllena Thibaud-Latour (UdeM)“L’indifférence en tant que vice épistémique institutionnalisé : un obstacle à la justice sociale”Commentary by Melissa Hernandez ParraKarl-Antoine Pelchat12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.60 minLUNCHLUNCH1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.40 minSamuel Carlsson Tjernström (McGill)“The Metaphysics of Doxastic Normativity”Commentary by Karl-Antoine PelchatFélix Tremblay1:40 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.40 minKarl-Antoine Pelchat (UQAM)“Qu’est-ce qui cloche avec la « relation de raison » ?”Commentary by Alexis Morin-MartelFélix Tremblay2:20 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.40 minAlexis Morin-Martel (McGill)“The Ethics of Kingmaking” (co-written with Gabriel Monette)Commentary by Samuel Carlsson TjernströmFélix Tremblay3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.20 minBREAKBREAK3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.40 minSara Trépanier-Fleurant (UdeM)“Amour: entre émotion, sentiment et syndrome”Commentary by Alex CartyEllena Thibaud-Latour4:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.40 minAlex Carty (McGill)“Blame and Blameworthiness are Agent-Relative”Commentary by Sara Trépanier-FleurantEllena Thibaud-LatourFor those wishing to attend remotely, the event will also be broadcast online via the following link.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
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Julie Rose (Dartmouth University) @ Online.
12 h 00 – 13 h 30
Julie Rose (Dartmouth University) will give a presentation entitled “The Social Costs of the Elite’s Work Culture: An Egalitarian Case for Universal Work Regulations” as part of the activities of the Philosophy of Work Network.
The activities of the Philosophy of Work Network are open to researchers and graduate students with research interests in this area. Please write to the organizers, Denise Celentano (denise.celentano@umontreal.ca) and Pablo Gilabert (pablo.gilabert@concordia.ca), to receive the zoom link.
Summary
Highly-paid, well-educated professionals in the contemporary United States often work long hours and report that they would prefer to work less. Should work time regulations apply universally, protecting those in more and less advantaged occupational positions alike from excessive, anti-social, and unpredictable work hours? Recent arguments in political philosophy defend a view I call ‘exempt the elite.’ This position holds that egalitarian commitments do not support universal work hours regulations. Instead, the elite’s long hours are acceptable, even desirable, because if work time regulations applied universally, the result would be diminished tax revenue to redistribute to the less advantaged. I here take up the question of how egalitarians should regard the elite’s long hours work culture, and I grant that the elite may not have claims of justice to shorter work hours. Still, I challenge the position that the elite’s long hours should be welcomed by showing how their long hours work culture generates a range of inegalitarian social costs. Given a choice between public policies that aim to compress income inequality while regulating work hours universally or exempting the elite from work hours regulations, egalitarians must consider not only the tax revenue effects but the broader social effects. If the elite’s long hours are more detrimental than beneficial to the realization of broadly egalitarian commitments, there is an egalitarian argument for not exempting the elite from work time regulations.
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Le pouvoir dans l’Anthropocène : violence, injustice et migration climatiques @ Informations à venir.
All day
2024-2025 Annual conference of the Scholarship Recipients of the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ).
Click here to view the circulated call for proposals.
Organisation
Clara Dallaire, Léon Gatien, Nicolas Lacroix, Valérie Lafond, Roxanne Lépineet Romeo Moungang.
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We are pleased to invite you to the next Philosophy and Ethics of Economics reading group, to be held in hybrid format (Zoom) on May 7, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. (Montreal time). The meeting will take place in room 2.840, 2nd floor at HEC, 3000 Côte Ste-Catherine (next to the library).
We will discuss the text by Muriel Gilardone entitled “Amartya Sen : un allié pour l’économie de la personne contre la métrique des capabilités. Deux arguments pour une lecture non fonctionnelle de la liberté chez Sen” published in Revue de Philosophie Économique (2018).
We hope to see many of you there, and would be delighted if you could share this invitation with anyone who might be interested.
To participate via Zoom, click here.
Organized by Nicolas Pinsonneault, Morgane Delorme and Gabriel Monette.
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POSTPONED! Presentation by Zoey Lavallée @ Room 309, CRÉ, hybrid, 2910 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Zoey Lavallée, postdoctoral researcher at the CRÉ, will give a presentation on their work.
The event, which was originally scheduled for May 5, 2025, has been postponed.
More details to come.
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Symposium on the Expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying and Workshop on Alexandre Baril’s New Book @ See below
8 May 9 h 30 – 9 May 12 h 15
Symposium on the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying and a workshop centered on Alexandre Baril’s new book, Défaire le suicidisme : Une approche trans, queer et crip du suicide (assisté). In French.
The events will take place over two days.
The symposium on the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying will be held on May 8, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in Room 422 (2nd floor), 2910 Édouard-Montpetit Boulevard, Montréal.
It will be followed by a book launch and discussion of Alexandre Baril’s new work, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Librairie L’Euguélionne, 1426 Beaudry Street, Montréal.
The workshop will take place the following day, May 9, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., in Room 1085, McGill University, 680 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal.
Program:
May 8, 2025
May 9, 2025
Organized by Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR), Yoann Della Croce, and Daniel Weinstock (McGill). Co-sponsored by the CRÉ, the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics on Vulnerability and Structural Injustices, and the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy (McGill).
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Launch of the second print issue of L’Amorce, a journal against speciesism @ Online.
12 h 30 – 13 h 30
The GRÉEA and the Environmental and Animal Ethics research axis of the CRÉ invite you to the launch of the second print issue of the journal L’Amorce, to wich members of the GRÉEA and the CRÉ have participated – Sarah Fravica, Martin Gibert and Frédéric Côté-Boudreau.
Several authors and editors of the journal will be present to discuss this new issue.
To join via Zoom, click here
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Annual Transatlantic Ethics Workshop #3 @ Online.
5 May – 6 May All day
The two half-day sessions of the 3rd Annual Transatlantic Meeting in Practical Philosophy will be held online on May 5 and 6, 2025.
To participate on Zoom, click here.
Program (.pdf)
Day 1
(All times in Eastern Standard Time – EST)
Keynote Address
9:00—10:15 am Havi Carel (Bristol), “Radical Bodily Doubt”
Chair: Ryoa Chung (UdM)
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10:20—11:00 am Loga Mitchell (UNC), “Mindfulness, Openness, and Morality”
11:00—11:40 am Nick Clanchy (McGill), “Roland Barthes on Love”
Chair: Magali Bessone (Paris 1)
Break
11:50 am—12:30 pm Andes Salazar Abello (Louvain), “Compatriot Partiality and the Right of Diasporas to Invite Foreigners”
12:30—1:10 pm Edgard Darrobers (Paris 1/UNIGE), “Sense of responsibility”
Chair: Sarah Stroud (UNC)
Day 2
9:00—9:40 am Aida Martinez Suarez (Hoover/Oviedo), “The Importance of Taking the Possible Unavoidability of Human Extinction Seriously”
9:45—10:25 am Will Kanwischer (UNC), “A New Dilemma for Animal Welfare Theorists”
Chair: Samuel Dishaw (Louvain)
Break
10:40—11:20 am Matthieu Debief (UNIGE/NoSoPhi), “Should philanthropy save political journalism?
11:20 am—12:00 pm Abraham Tobi (UdM/CRÉ), “Botched Apologies and Unfulfilled Promises”
Chair: Kristin Voigt (McGill)
Co-organized by the CRÉ, the Parr Center for Ethics, the Chaire Hoover & NoSoPhi.
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“The Politics of Métissage: The Theories, Methods, and Perceptions of Mixing Lifeways and Identities” Conference @ McGill Faculty Club
1 May 8 h 30 – 2 May 18 h 00
This 2-day academic conference seeks to explore questions related to the mixing of life ways and identities—or métissage—and the wide range of perspectives and political considerations that pertain to this topic, as developed across settler and colonial contexts.
Registration is free and strongly recommended. For more information and to register, click here.
Organizers:
Yann Allard-Tremblay (Political Science, McGill University)
Elaine Coburn (International Studies, York University)Schedule:
May 1 8:30 Arrival 8:45-9:00 Opening and welcome
Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer
Yann Allard-Tremblay9:00-10:30 Keynote 1 Emma LaRocque (University of Manitoba): Maybe Metis eh? The Problematics of Metis/metis Identities
10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break 10:45-12:15 Panel 1 Dale Turner (University of Toronto): Métissage as Reconciliation
Tania Islas Weinstein (McGill): Translating Mestizaje: The Politics of Racial Discourses in Mexico12:15-13:15 Break 13:15-15:30 Panel 2
Elaine Coburn (York): ‘A Cursed Line of Mestizos and Tremendous Whores’; the Underside of the Politics of Indigenous Realness
Catherine Lu (McGill): Indigeneity as seriality: Indigenous people as a social collective
Kelsey Brady (University of British Columbia): Decolonizing the Boundary Problem: Taking Indigenous Boundary Problems Seriously15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break – time in the sun break 16:00-17:30 Panel 3 Documentary by Yasmine Mathurin: ‘One of Ours’
17:30-18:30 Reception May 2 8:30-9:00: Arrival 9:00-10:30 Panel 4 Melissa Williams (University of Toronto): Indigenizing Democratic Theory: A Grounded Approach
John McGuire (University College Dublin): Hubris and Hybridity: Anxieties of Identity in Ancient and Modern Democracies10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea break 10:45-12:15: Roundtable Aaron Mills (McGill)
Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer
Maïka Sondarjee (University of Ottawa)
Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill)
Yasmine Mathurin12:15-13:15 Break 13:15-14:45 Panel 5 Daniel Luna (University of Toronto): Coloniality After the Critique of Forms of Life
Tyler Loohuizen (McGill): On the Illegibility of Indigenous Affect and the Potentiality of Social Feeling14:45-15:15 Coffee/tea break – time in the sun break 15:15-16:45 Keynote 2 Bonita Lawrence (York): Legal Indianness and the Expulsion of Non-Status Indigenous People
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Animal Ethics Workshop @ Online.
28 Apr – 29 Apr All day
The Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GRÉEA) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) are organizing a workshop on key ethical issues concerning the moral responsibilities of human beings toward nonhuman animals.
Program
April 28, 2025
8:30-10:00 AM PT // 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET // 4:30-6:00 PM GMT
Richard Healey & Angie Pepper, “Against Interspecies Politics”
10:15-11:45 AM PT // 1:15 – 2:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT
Will Gildea, “What Makes Us Matter: Sentience and (a Bit) Beyond”
April 29, 2025
8:30-10:00 AM PT // 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET // 4:30-6:00 PM GMT
Davide Pala & Matthew Perry, “Licencing Pet-keeping”
10:15-11:45 AM PT // 1:15 – 2:45 PM ET // 6:15 – 7:45 PM GMT
Angie Pepper, “Interspecies Companionship: Dominance, Desire, and Structural Injustice”
To register and received the papers to be read in advance as well as the zoom link, please do it here before April 16.
Organized and chaired by Kristin Voigt & Valéry Giroux.
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The Greea organises a members’ research workshop next Friday, April 25, from 9am to 4 pm, on the UdeM campus.
The program is attached, and practical information may be found here.
Lunch will be provided: please let us know if you plan on attending the workshop.
If participants are interested, we could have a drink in the neighborhood after the workshop.
PROGRAMMATION
9h15-10h15 – Laurent Jodoin (UdeM) – « L’approche mutualiste et entropique de la durabilité »
10h15-11h15 – Matthew Barker (Concordia) – «The Norms Defining Human Nature and Species Nature »
11h30-12h30 – Yves-Marie Abraham (HEC Montréal) – « Quels rapports avec les autres qu’humains dans un monde post-croissance?»13h30-14h30 – Antoine C. Dussault (Collège Lionel-Groulx) – « La nature sauvage et sa valeur d’altérité »
14h30-15h30 – Ghyslain Bolduc (Cégep Édouard Montpetit) – « Sortir de la prison climatique, mais à quel prix ? -
Second Edition of the ‘Everything Agency’ Annual Conference @ Université Laval
24 Apr 8 h 30 – 25 Apr 16 h 45
The second edition of ULaval’s annual “Everything Agency” conference will be held on April 24-25, 2025, at Université Laval’s Laurentienne Pavilion, in Québec City, Canada.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical aspects of agency from different perspectives, such as the philosophy of action, the philosophy of emotions, epistemology, normative ethics, political philosophy, political science, and much more.
In addition to the keynote talks, there will be eight slots for papers selected through a call for papers.
Our keynote speakers for 2025 are:
- Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
- Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
- Jane Friedman (New York University)
- Alex Worsnip (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Organized by Artūrs Logins (Université Laval) and Catherine Rioux (Université Laval), in collaboration with Nathan Howard (University of Toronto). CRÉ is proud to be associated with this event.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the conference; attendance is free, but registration is required. Please write to the following email address before April 18, 2025 to register for the event.
For more details on the event schedule, click here.
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Jean-François Pradeau (Université de Lyon 3) @ Room 422, Department of philosophy, Université de Montréal
12 h 00 – 13 h 30
The GRÉEA and the CRÉ are pleased to welcome Jean-François Pradeau (Université de Lyon 3), who will be giving a talk titled “Philosophizing Without Meat: Abstaining from Flesh in the Platonic Tradition.”
Session Chair: Louis-André Dorion.
To join via Zoom, click here (Meeting ID: 812 5326 4221; Passcode: 688603).
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“ART expansion and the new imagined landscapes of care” @ Room 309, CRÉ, hybrid, 2910 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Anat Rosenthal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will give a presentation on her current work.
To join on Zoom, click here.
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We are pleased to invite you to the Philosophy and Ethics of Economics reading group, to be held in hybrid format (Zoom) on April 17, 2025 at 9:30 a.m. (Montreal time). The meeting will take place in room 2.840, 2nd floor at HEC, 3000 Côte Ste-Catherine (next to the library).
We will discuss the text by Filippo Santoni de Sio, Txai Almeida and Jeroen van den Hoven entitled “The future of work: freedom, justice and capital in the age of artificial intelligence” published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2024).
In addition, we also invite you to read the text by Danaher entitled “In Defence of the Post-Work Future: Withdrawal and the Ludic Life” published in The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income (2019). This second reading is optional, for those who wish to go a little further.
We hope to see many of you there, and would be delighted if you could share this invitation with anyone who might be interested.
To participate via Zoom, click here.
Organized by Nicolas Pinsonneault, Morgane Delorme and Gabriel Monette.
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“Neutralité de l’Etat et éducation morale”, Ophélie Desmons @ Room 309, UdeM
12 h 00 – 13 h 15
As part of the CRÉ’s Ethics Lunchtime series, Ophélie Desmons will be giving a presentation titled “State Neutrality and Moral Education.” A discussion will follow.
To join via Zoom, click here.
The presentation will be in French but the questions may be asked in English.
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Eugene Chislenko (Temple University) @ Room 309, CRÉ, hybrid, 2910 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal
12 h 00 – 13 h 30
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime Series, Eugene Chislenko (Temple U.) will give a talk entitled “Respect and the Standing to Blame”.
To join on Zoom, click here.
Abstract:
Many philosophers believe that hypocritical, complicit, or meddling blamers lose their standing to blame. Some hesitate to use the notion of standing. ‘Standing’ can seem too ambiguous, too binary in contexts rife with degrees, inapplicable to relevant mental kinds such as belief and emotion, and not really distinct from other evaluative notions. I argue that talk of standing can be made both coherent and useful if it models itself not on legal standing but, instead, on social and academic standing. I introduce the Disrespect View of Standing to Blame: To have standing to blame someone for something is to be in a relation to the relevant norms that enables one to blame her for it without disrespect. I argue that the Disrespect View addresses concerns about talk of standing, and offers an account of standing that is illuminating in assessing and applying conditions on standing. The Disrespect View also reorients attention toward the many interesting, tricky cases of partly undermined standing, and resists an overly legalistic conception of personal relationships.
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On Friday, April 4, 2025, from 3:40 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., Frédéric Côté-Boudreau (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) will present “Should Animals Have Labour Rights?” as part of Concordia University’s Social Justice Fellows seminar series.
The event will take place in room 14.250 (14th floor) of Concordia University’s John Molson Building, located at 1600 De Maisonneuve Boulevard West. It is also possible to participate via Zoom.
Vegan food and refreshments will be served. Registration is free, and everyone is welcome.
For more details, click here.
Summary
Domesticated animals contribute to the wealth and functioning of our societies: it is the very reason why they are exploited in the first place. Their time, efforts, skills, and bodies are used to produce goods and services but almost always through coercion and at the cost of their own lives. While scientific and legal institutions increasingly recognize that most exploited animals are sentient–and not mere things–, they are still treated, in economic terms, as resources and merchandise, as machines and tools.
This situation is untenable. Some philosophers, legal scholars, and sociologists argue that domesticated animals deserve labour rights—they indeed provide genuine labour, but one that goes unrecognized and virtually unprotected. Beyond simply improving their working conditions, this “labour rights” approach to animal rights seeks to guarantee breaks, holidays and leisure time, a right to retirement, fair monetary compensation, and a right to be represented in the workplace. It promises to go beyond the welfarist paradigm, which keeps animals under human dominion, and posits that human-animal relationships can truly be mutually beneficial if properly regulated.
Despite its best intentions, I will argue that this strategy might fail animals and offers only limited parallels with human labour rights. First, I will map out the various ways in which domesticated animals work (or are worked upon). Second, I will outline the case for labour rights for animals. Third, I will present four key issues with this approach—some pragmatic, others more normative. Finally, I will argue that animals’ flourishing is better secured through unconditional socio-economic rights, which can recognize the value of their care work and social reproduction work without making them vulnerable to productivist systems.
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Jay Bernstein (New School for Social Research) @ Concordia University
15 h 00 – 17 h 00
On Friday, April 4, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Jay Bernstein (New School for Social Research) will give a presentation entitled “Earth Justice: Emergency Ethics in the Age of Climate Catastrophe”. The presentation will take place in Room 362 of Concordia University’s J.W. McConnell Building, located at 1400 De Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montréal, Quebec.
Organized by the Philosophy Department of Concordia University and the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité (GRIN).
For more details, click here.
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Next Friday, April 4, from 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Patrick Garon-Sayegh (Université de Montréal), a member of GRIN, will give a presentation entitled “Entre preuve et confidentialité dans l’affaire Maillé. Tensions théoriques et méthodologiques” as part of the activities of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST).
The event will take place in room N-8510 of the Pavilion Paul-Gérin-Lajoire at UQÀM, located at 1205 Saint-Denis Street, Montréal, Québec.
For more information and to register, click here.
