On Tuesday, January 28, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., Pierre André (Université catholique de Louvain) will give a presentation* on his new book La Justice climatique, co-written with Axel Gosseries (Université catholique de Louvain).
With a doctorate in philosophy, Pierre André also has a background in political science and management. Formerly an FNRS research fellow, he is currently guest lecturer at the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at the Université de Louvain and at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
The presentation is organized by Juliette Roussin (Université Laval) for the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire en éthique environnementale et éthique animale (GRÉEA) and the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ).
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*The event will take place in French.
In our Midi de l’éthique series, Will Gildea will offer a presentation titled The Grounds of Moral Status: Sentience and (a bit) Beyond.
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As part of the Ethics Lunchtime Series, Arash Abizadeh will give a talk entitled “The Ethics of Publishing in Academic Journals”.
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You are warmly invited to the 1st session of the CRÉ Graduate Scholars Seminar 2024-2025. In turn, three of the six CRÉ scholarship recipients will present their work. The goal of the seminar is to provide our master’s and doctoral students with feedback, constructive criticism, and recommendations that will help them improve their research projects.
We propose the following program:
13h – 13h50. Presentation by Nicolas Lacroix, Démocratie insurgeante et mouvements sociaux.
13h50 – 14h. Break
14h – 14h50. Presentation by Clara Dallaire, Curriculum caché en éducation médicale : Recherche-intervention pour le développement d’un outil réflexif participatif.
14h50 – 15h. Break
15h – 15h50. Presentation by Valérie Lafond, L’impact des injustices structurelles sur la vulnérabilité des personnes face aux conséquences de la crise climatique.
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The second session will be held in March 2025.
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Pierre-Yves Néron will present his recent book Seeing Like a Firm: Social Justice, Corporations, and the Conservative Order (Oxford University Press, 2024).
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Summary of the book:
Business corporations are political entities and need to be considered as such. Seeing Like a Firm invites readers to do just that by providing a political theory of the business firm and, in doing so, offering new perspectives on the recent history of social justice, neoliberalism, and conservatism.
This book challenges the usual way of thinking about corporations in two ways. Firstly, it argues that firms ‘see’ in a conservative way and embrace a ‘conservatism of commerce’ that requires socioeconomic inequality. In doing so, it challenges our usual interpretation of neoliberalism and its connections with the contemporary business corporation. Secondly, it argues that we need a relational concept of equality and justice to think about corporations. Given that the corporate ‘optic’ is built on dismissing demands for equal standing, Pierre-Yves Néron asserts that relational egalitarians should deconstruct it, argue against it, tackle it.
By offering a new interpretation of conservatism based not on a desire to simply preserve the existing system but on an ‘aesthetics of inequality’, Néron provides an alternative way to think about the main challenges that proponents of equality face.
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien will give a presentation titled “Médicalisation de la détresse prémenstruelle et préférences adaptatives.”
The presentation will be chaired by Naïma Hamrouni.
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As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Anat Rosenthal will give a presentation on her work.
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As part of the Ethics Lunchtime Series, Eugene Chislenko will give a talk entitled “Respect and the Standing to Blame”.
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Abstract:
Many philosophers believe that hypocritical, complicit, or meddling blamers lose their standing to blame. Some hesitate to use the notion of standing. ‘Standing’ can seem too ambiguous, too binary in contexts rife with degrees, inapplicable to relevant mental kinds such as belief and emotion, and not really distinct from other evaluative notions. I argue that talk of standing can be made both coherent and useful if it models itself not on legal standing but, instead, on social and academic standing. I introduce the Disrespect View of Standing to Blame: To have standing to blame someone for something is to be in a relation to the relevant norms that enables one to blame her for it without disrespect. I argue that the Disrespect View addresses concerns about talk of standing, and offers an account of standing that is illuminating in assessing and applying conditions on standing. The Disrespect View also reorients attention toward the many interesting, tricky cases of partly undermined standing, and resists an overly legalistic conception of personal relationships.
As part of the CRÉ’s Ethics Lunchtime series, Ophélie Desmond will be giving a presentation titled “State Neutrality and Moral Education.” A discussion will follow.
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The presentation will be in French but the questions may be asked in English.
As part of the Ethics Lunchtime series, Zoey Lavallée, postdoctoral researcher at the CRÉ, will give a presentation on their work.
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