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Biography

Since October 15^th 2023, Nick Clanchy has been a postdoctoral Fellow at Amandine Catala’s Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency and at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique. Their research project, co-supervised by Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Kristin Voigt (McGill), centres on hermeneutical injustice: roughly, the sort of injustice a person suffers when they are unfairly hindered from satisfying an interest they have in something about them being intelligible to someone. Previous work in this area has focused on how best to enable people to satisfy such interests; a primary aim of the project is to argue for the desirability of instead doing away with at least some such interests, for instance by implementing a universal basic income. To this end the project will draw on work in trans studies, queer theory, and disability studies in addition to feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.

Before coming to Montréal, Nick studied for a DPhil in philosophy at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Amia Srinivasan and Rachel Fraser. Prior to that, they took a BA and then an MPhil in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Their latest paper is entitled “Infrapolitical Strategies for Preventing Hermeneutical Injustices Amidst the Global Trans Panic”, forthcoming at Ergo.

Following their research stay at the CRÉ, Nick will be starting a position as Departmental Lecturer in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy at the University of Oxford for the 2025-2026 academic year. 

Personal website: www.nickclanchy.com

Email address: nicholas.clanchy@mcgill.ca