William Gildea is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre de recherche en éthique. He is also affiliated with the Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GREEA). His research has focussed on moral status, basic human equality, and our duties to animals. His postdoctoral project, co-supervised by Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Mauro Rossi (UQÀM), is on distributive justice, humans and animals. It examines whether we need to revise our principles of distributive justice to accommodate not only many animals but the human beings who may be left out of existing accounts.

Will holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in the UK, where his work was supervised by Victor Tadros, Kimberley Brownlee, Patrick Tomlin and Steve Cooke. He has a BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and a BA in PPE from the University of Warwick.