William Gildea is currently an Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick. From September 2024, he will be a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRE), under the mentorship of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Mauro Rossi (UQÀM). He will also will be 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. At the CRÉ, he will work on 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, 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.

William.Gildea@warwick.ac.uk