The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) is proud to present the team of researchers who will be in residence at the Centre for the 2024-2025 academic year. We introduce these researchers briefly, but you will be kept informed of their research activities throughout the year!

Welcome to the visiting professors who will soon do a fellowship at the CRE! :  

• Arash Abizadeh, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, McGill University. His research project is titled Power, Subjection, and Democracy. His residency will take place from January 1 to June 30, 2025.
• Ophélie Desmons, Lecturer in Philosophy at the INSPE of Paris – Sorbonne University. Her research project is titled Revising Citizen Education in Light of the New Challenges of the Twenty-First Century. Her research residency will take place in the spring of 2025.
• Anatole Fogou, University Professor HDR at the University of Lille III, Department of Philosophy, École Normale Supérieure, University of Maroua, Cameroon. His research residency at the CRÉ will take place as part of the partnership between the CRÉ and the EthicsLab led by Thierry Ngosso in Yaoundé, Cameroon, during the 2024-2025 academic year.
• Brice Arsène Mankou, Lecturer at the University of Rouen Normandy, Lecturer at Sciences Po, Reims Campus, and Associate Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Dynamics (DYSOLAB), University of Rouen Normandy. His research project is titled Ethics of the French Media in the Treatment of Racial, Colonial, and Migration Issues. His residency included a first stay from February 28 to April 30th, 2024, and a second stay will start on November 1st and end on November 30th, 2024.

Among the visiting professors who stayed earlier in 2024-2025 :

• Richard Healey, London School of Economics. His research project was titled Immoral Promises and Valuable Relationships and took place from May 11 to May 17, 2024.
• Dominic Martin, Professor of Ethics at the School of Management Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal. His research project is titled Ethics by (Organizational) Design: the Corporate Structure of Ownership and Governance. His residency started on September 1, 2023, and will end on August 31, 2024.
• Virginie Maris, Research Fellow at CNRS. She works at the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE – UMR 5175) in Montpellier in environmental philosophy. Her research project is titled Animaux et relations trophiques dans les projets de ré-ensauvagement and her stay will take place from June 17 to July 5, 2024.
• Angie Pepper, Assistant Professor, Roehampton University, London. Her research project was titled Animals, Inferiority, and Abolition and took place from May 11 to May 17, 2024.
• Anat Rosenthal, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and the Tamar Golan Africa Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research project is on Care integration and climate adaptation in resource-limited health systems. Her research stay will be from January 15 to September 14, 2025.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024-2025 postdoctoral research stay competition! :

• Anna Milioni, Ph.D. in Philosophy from King’s College London. Her postdoctoral research project is titled The Ethics of Mobile Migration and will be conducted under the co-supervision of Ryoa Chung (UdeM) and Arash Abizadeh (McGill). She will also be affiliated with the Interuniversity Research Group in Political Philosophy (GRIPP). Her research residency will begin on September 1, 2024, and end on August 31, 2026.
• William Gildea, Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. His postdoctoral research project is titled Justice for Humans, Justice for Animals and will be conducted under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Mauro Rossi (UQÀM). He will also be affiliated with the Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GRÉEA). His research residency will begin on September 1, 2024, and end on August 31, 2026.

These researchers join the otherwise composed in-residence team :

• Gilles Beauchamp, Ph.D. in philosophy at McGill U. His research project funded by the SSRHC at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, at the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ) and at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) is titled Religious Literacy as Epistemic Justice in Secular Society. Gills will be working under the supervision of Amandine Catala (UQÀM) starting in September 2024.
• Nick Clanchy, DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His postdoctoral research project is titled Essays on Hermeneutical and Testimonial Injustices and will be conducted at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, as well as at the Centre de recherche en éthique, from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2025. Nick will work under the co-supervision of Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Kristin Voigt (McGill).
• Frédéric Côté-Boudreau, PhD in Philosophy, Queen’s University. His postdoctoral project is on the political turn to animal rights, conducted at the Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe and at the CRÉ, under the co-supervision of Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR) and Christian Nadeau (UdeM). His fellowship will be from September 1 to December 31, 2024.
• George Deane, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. His research project focuses on artificial consciousness and on affect and disorders of consciousness, with a view to clinical interventions. He works under the supervision of Jonathan Simon (UdeM), and his residency at the CRÉ began on September 1, 2022, and will end on September 15, 2024.
• Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Ph.D. in Philosophy, UQÀM. Her research project is titled Values and Psychiatry. Anne-Marie’s research is conducted at the Chaire de recherche en éthique féministe sur la vulnérabilité et les injustices structurelles, the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency and the Centre de recherche en éthique, co-supervised by Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Luc Faucher (UQÀM). Anne-Marie is a member of the Research Group in Philosophy of Psychiatry (POMH). Her research residency began on September 1, 2022, and will end on December 31, 2026.
• Zoey Lavallee, Ph.D. in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. Her project is titled A Socially Situated Account of Agency in Addiction and will be conducted under the co-supervision of Ian Gold (McGill) and Luc Faucher (UQÀM), from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025, after completing her SSHRC-funded postdoc at the CRÉ under the supervision of Natalie Stoljar (McGill). Zoey is a member of the Research Group in Philosophy of Psychiatry (POMH).
• Olusegun Samuel, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of New South Wales (UNSW). His project titled Building Environmental Justice and Sustainability from Within the African Space is conducted at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and the Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA), under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Antoine C. Dussault (Collège Lionel-Groulx). His two-part residency (from January 11 to March 10, 2023, and from November 1 to December 31, 2023) will continue thanks to the PBEEE-FRQNT postdoctoral funding he just obtained for an additional residency from January 1, 2024, to December 1, 2024, under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill U.) and Juliette Roussin (Laval U.).
• Abraham Tejiri Tobi, Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, University of Johannesburg. His project is titled Marginal Epistemic Injustice and will be conducted at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency and at the Centre de recherche en éthique, from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025. Abe will work under the co-supervision of Amandine Catala (UQÀM) and Ryoa Chung (UdeM).

To the rotating team for 2024-2025, visiting researchers are also added :

• Junior Thierry Tatsi Tsifo, Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy of Law at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Junior Thierry will conduct a research residency at the CRÉ on contemporary law challenges posed by surrogacy and the philosophy of law issues surrounding male same-sex parenting, under the supervision of Charles Dupras (UdeM), during the Summer or Fall of 2024.

To this wonderful team are added our graduate scholarship recipients:

• Clara Dallaire, PhD candidate in biomedical sciences under the supervision of Antoine Payot and Nathalie Orr Gaucher at the Université de Montréal. Her project is titled Curriculum caché en éducation médicale : Curriculum caché en éducation médicale: Recherche-intervention pour le développement d’un outil réflexif participatif.
• Léon Gatien, Master degree student in philosophy under the supervision of Naïma Hamrouni and Claude Gélinas at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. His project is titled Modalités et étendue de l’animalisation des peuples autochtones lors de la colonisation du Canada (1608-1867).
• Nicolas Lacroix, PhD candidate in philosophy under the supervision of Christian Nadeau at the Université de Montréal. His project is titled La conflictualité démocratique. Démocratie, égalité et mouvements sociaux.
• Valérie Lafond, PhD candidate in philosophy under the supervision of Marie-Josée Drolet and Marie-Michèle Lord at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Her project is titled L’influence des injustices structurelles sur la vulnérabilité des populations face à la crise climatique: expérience de personnes migrantes climatiques.
• Roxanne Lépine, PhD candidate in philosophy under the supervision of Marc-Antoine Dilhac at the Université de Montréal. Her project is titled Décision sans décideur: le problème de la responsabilité en contexte d’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle.
• Romeo Moungang, PhD candidate in philosophy under the supervision of Patrick Turmel and Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp at the Université Laval. His project is titled Pourquoi l’immigration est-elle très souvent considérée comme une affaire de sélection par les pays industrialisés?