2025–2026 edition of the Annual Meeting of the CRÉ’s Fundamental Ethics axis, directed by Natalie Stoljar (McGill) and Mauro Rossi (UQAM).

This first edition of the annual workshop will take place at McGill. The program will feature six presentations by co-researchers affiliated with the axis!

The axial meetings are organized with the aim of enabling members of each of the Centre’s five main research axes to become better acquainted with their colleagues’ work, to foster a sense of belonging to the Centre, and to encourage collaboration. While these meetings are primarily intended to bring together the co-researchers of a given axis, collaborators, affiliated researchers, and student or postdoctoral members of the axis are also welcome. Participation by members of other axes is likewise encouraged, particularly where their research interests overlap with those of members of the Fundamental Ethics axis.

Program

Note that the morning and afternoon sessions will be held in different rooms.

Morning session: School of Population and Global Health, 2001 McGill College, Room

1140

9.30am-10.20am: Stephanie Leary (McGill) – “What should we be doing when we’re doing metaethics?”

10.30am-11.20am: Arturs Logins (ULaval) – “The expected fittingness maximization theory of emotional rationality”

Lunch break

Afternoon session: Philosophy Department Seminar Room, Leacock Building, Room 927

1.00pm-1.50pm: Catherine Rioux (ULaval) – “Engaging Ethically With Fundamental Despair”

2.00pm-2.50pm: Iwao Hirose (McGill) – “Minimally good life and time”

Break

3.10pm-4.00pm: Chris Howard (McGill) – “Decentralizing the Digital Public Sphere”

4.10pm-5.00pm: Christine Tappolet (UdeM) – “Embracing Affective Ambivalence”