Positions held

2025-2026 to today

Student(s), Environmental and animal ethics

Biography

Véronique Armstrong comes from the environmental field, where she worked for several years after completing her master’s degree in environmental studies at the Université de Sherbrooke. She is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Christine Tappolet (UdeM) and Valéry Giroux (UdeM).

Her research lies within the field of environmental ethics. Drawing on eco-holistic approaches that ascribe moral value to collective entities such as ecosystems, she examines practices such as hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal farming—topics whose ethical dimensions are most often discussed from a sentientist standpoint within animal ethics. Observing that these practices generally benefit neither individual animals nor ecological wholes, and attentive to the striking convergence between the harms inflicted on both, she investigates the ways in which these harms might help bring together normative perspectives that appear, at first glance, to diverge.

Through her work in environmental impact assessment, she remains grounded in the realities of public policies and practices that shape representations, land use, and territories. In parallel, she is involved in initiatives promoting nature protection and the well-being of all animals, humans included, developing projects that allow her to put into practice and test the theoretical reflections she develops in her doctoral research.

Personal webpage

veronique.armstrong@umontreal.ca