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Philosophical Perspectives on Values and Mental Health

Calendar
When:
6 November 2025 – 7 November 2025 all-day
2025-11-06T00:00:00-05:00
2025-11-08T00:00:00-05:00
Where:
C-1017-02, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, Université de Montréal
3150 Jean-Brillant
Montréal
Ethics and health
Matthew Valiquette, Mona Gupta, Sarah Arnaud, Axel Constant, Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Zoey Lavallee, Amandine Catala, Luc Faucher

Conference on Philosophical Perspectives on Values and Mental Health

The event will now be held in hybrid format to accommodate those affected by the STM strike. To access the Zoom link, click here. 

Program

Thursday, November 6

5:00pm – 6:30pm – Keynote presentation

“Cross-Cultural Human Kinds and the Naturalness of Social Categories” – Jonathan Y. Tsou (Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Dallas)

Commentary: Matthew Valiquette (Department of Philosophy, McGill University)

Friday, November 7

8:30 – 9:00: Coffee, pastries, and welcome

9:00 – 9:50:  “Advancing the debate about MAiD for persons with MD through the Values in Science Framework” – Mona Gupta (Département de Psychiatrie et d’Addictologie, Université de Montréal)

10:00 – 10:50: “Personomics: Leveraging digital and computational phenotyping towards a person centered precision psychiatry” – Axel Constant (Department of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex)

10:50 – 11:20: Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:10: “How Should We Frame Autism? An Ameliorative Proposal”  – Amandine Catala (Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’injustice et l’agentivité épistémiques – Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, Département de philosophie – Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal)

12:10 – 1:10 pm: Lunch

1:10 – 2:00 pm: “Values and first-person accounts in mental health” – Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval)

2:10 – 3:00 pm: TBD – Luc Faucher (Département de philosophie, Institut Santé et Société, Université du Québec à Montréal)

3:00 – 3:20 pm: Coffee Break

3:20 – 4:50 pm: Keynote presentation

“Mental health, suffering and value” – Sofia Jeppsson (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University

Commentary: Sarah Arnaud (Cégep Édouard-Montpetit, Centre de recherche en éthique)

Organization: Zoey Lavallee (McGill) and Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien (ULaval) for the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) and the Groupe de recherche en philosophie de la santé mentale (POMH).