The Center for Research in Ethics Research (CRE) is proud to introduce the team of researchers who will be in residence at the Center for the academic year 2023-2024. We present these researchers briefly, but you will undoubtedly be informed about their research activities throughout the year!

Welcome to the visiting professors who will soon do a fellowship at the CRE! :

• Maria Paola Ferretti, Acting Professor in Philosophy and Political Theory, University of Frankfurt on Main. Her research project focuses on the risks and responsibilities surrounding institutional corruption. Her stay will take place from March 15 to April 15, 2024.
• Brice Arsène Mankou, Lecturer at the University of Rouen Normandy, teacher at Sciences Po, Reims Campus, associate researcher at the Laboratory of Social Dynamics (DYSOLAB), University of Rouen Normandy. His research project is titled Ethics of French Media in the Treatment of Racial, Colonial, and Migratory Issues. His stay will start on February 24 and end on May 31, 2024.
• Dominic Martin, Professor of Ethics at the School of Management Sciences of the University of Quebec in Montreal. His research project is titled Ethics by (Organizational) Design: the Corporate Structure of Ownership and Governance. His stay will take place from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024.
• Thierry Ngosso, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Ethics and Public Policy at the Catholic University of Central Africa. The research project he will undertake as part of a partnership between the CRÉ and the Ethics Lab (Yaoundé, Cameroon), which he founded and directs, will focus on comparative political philosophy between Western and African approaches. His stay will take place from February 1 to February 28, 2024.
• Astrid von Busekist, Professor of Political Theory at Sciences Po, Paris. Her research project is titled The New Thresholds of Tolerance. Her stay at the CRE will take place from late September to late December 2023.

Among the visiting professors who stayed earlier in 2023-2024:

• Frank Arabonfuh Abumere, Political Theory, U. of Richmond, USA. His research project is titled Ongoing Racism as Residual Slavery, Colonialism, and Apartheid, and his stay at the CRE was conducted remotely from December 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023-2024 postdoctoral research stay competition! :

• Nick Clanchy, DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Their postdoctoral research project, titled Essays on Hermeneutical and Testimonial Injustices, will be conducted at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency of Amandine Catala, and at the Center for Research on Ethics, from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2025. Nick will work under the co-supervision of Amandine Catala (UQAM) and Kristin Voigt (McGill).
• Zoey Lavallee, Ph.D. in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. Their project, titled A Socially Situated Account of Agency in Addiction, will be conducted under the co-supervision of Ian Gold (McGill) and Luc Faucher (UQAM), from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025 – after completing their postdoctorate funded by SSHRC and conducted at the CRE under the supervision of Natalie Stoljar (McGill).
• Abraham Tejiri Tobi, Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, University of Johannesburg. His project, titled Marginal Epistemic Injustice, will be conducted at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency of Amandine Catala, and at the Center for Research on Ethics, from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025. Abe will work under the co-supervision of Amandine Catala (UQAM) and Ryoa Chung (UdeM).

These researchers join the otherwise composed in-residence team:

• Ido Alon, Ph.D. in Economics, Autonomous University of Madrid. His research project is titled Diffusion of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. He works with Vardit Ravitsky (UdeM) and Daniel Weinstock (McGill). His stay began on May 1, 2022, and will end on December 31, 2023.
• Frauke Albersmeier, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf. Her research project focuses on the circumstances of inter-species justice. Her internship at the CRE and the GREEA conducted under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Christian Nadeau (UdeM) at the CRE began on February 1 and will end on May 31, 2023.
• Emil Andersson, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Uppsala University. His research project is titled Extending Liberal Legitimacy. He works under the supervision of Iwao Hirose (McGill). His internship at the CRE began on January 1, 2022, and will end on December 31, 2023.
• Axel Constant, Ph.D. in Philosophy of Biomedicine, University of Sidney. His research project focuses on the translation/implementation of philosophical concepts related to consciousness (“consciousness”) in the conceptual apparatus of computational sciences, as well as the ethical implications of such a practice. He works with Jonathan Simon (UdeM) and Yoshua Bengio (UdeM). His internship began on March 15th, 2023 and will end on March 15th, 2024.
• George Deane, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. His research project focuses on artificial consciousness and on affect and disorders of consciousness, in the perspective of clinical interventions. He works under the supervision of Jonathan Simon (UdeM) and his stay at the CRE began on September 1, 2022, and will end on August 31, 2024.
• Rodrigo Diaz, Ph.D. University of Bern. His research project is titled Experimental Metaethics supervised by Christine Tappolet (UdeM) began in January 2021, thanks to external funding. Since September 1, 2022, his research project funded by the Interuniversity Research Group on Normativity (GRIN) and by the Center for Research in Ethics (CRE) is conducted under the co-supervision of Christine Tappolet (UdeM) and Christopher Howard (McGill). His internship will extend until August 31, 2024.
• Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Ph.D. in Philosophy, UQAM. Her research project is titled Values and Psychiatry. Anne-Marie’s research is conducted at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency and at the Center for Research in Ethics, and is co-supervised by Amandine Catala (UQAM) and Luc Faucher (UQAM). Her research stay began on September 1, 2022, and will end on December 31, 2026.
• Anne Iavarone-Turcotte, Ph.D. in Law, McGill. Her research project focuses on women’s decision-making and choice. Her internship at the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics (CREF) and the Center for Research in Ethics (CRE) is co-supervised by Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR) and Daniel Weinstock (McGill). It began on September 1, 2022, and will end on August 31, 2023.
• Max Lewis, Ph.D. in Philosophy, U. of Helsinki. His project is titled Gratitude and Resentment: A Usefully Opposed Pair and is co-supervised by Christopher Howard (McGill) and Mauro Rossi (UQAM). His internship at the Center for Research in Ethics (CRE) and the Interuniversity Research Group on Normativity (GRIN) began on January 1, 2023, and will end on December 31, 2024.
• Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juarez, Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, McGill University. Her research project is titled Art and Well-being from the Neuroscience Perspective: the Transformative Potential of Artistic Practices. Fernanda works under the co-supervision of Ian Gold (McGill) and Christine Tappolet (UdeM). Her internship at the CRE began in February 2020 and will end in August 2023.
• Olusegun Samuel, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of New South Wales (UNSW). His project titled Building Environmental Justice and Sustainability from Within the African Space is conducted at the Center for Research in Ethics (CRE) and the Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GREEA), under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Antoine C. Dussault (Lionel-Groulx College). His two-part stay (from January 11 to March 10, 2023, then from November 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023) will continue thanks to the postdoctoral funding FRQ-PBEEE he has just obtained, starting from January 1, 2024, under the co-supervision of Kristin Voigt (McGill) and Juliette Roussin (Laval).
• Jules Salomone-Sehr, Ph.D. His research project is titled White People’s Moral Responsibilities and is co-financed by the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency of Amandine Catala and by the Center for Research in Ethics (CRE. Jules works under the co-supervision of Natalie Stoljar (McGill) and Amandine Catala (UQAM). His stay began on January 1, 2021, and will end on August 31, 2023.
• Didier Zúñiga, Ph.D. in Political Theory, University of Victoria. His project is titled Difference Beyond Culture: Ecology, Ontology, and Decolonial Politics. His internship is being conducted at the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics (CREF), the Center for Research in Ethics (CRE), and the Research Group in Environmental and Animal Ethics (GREEA). He is co-supervised by Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR) and Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill). His stay was scheduled from September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2024, but it will conclude in July 2023 because Didier has obtained a permanent position at the University of Alberta.

To the rotating team for 2023-2024, visiting researchers are also added:

• Julie Agnaou, a doctoral candidate in the philosophy of medicine at the Doctoral School ‘Concepts and Languages’ (ED 433), Sorbonne University. Julie will undertake a research stay under the supervision of Aude Bandini, from October 28 to December 15, 2023. Her research project will focus on the paradox of care in prison, and its potential link with reintegration and the prevention of recidivism among incarcerated individuals.
• Alban Ridet, PhD student at the University of Lausanne under the supervision of Michael Esfeld as part of the project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), ‘Parsimonious ontology and the relationship between science and persons.’ Alban will undertake a research stay at the CRÉ under the supervision of Christine Tappolet from January 15 to May 12, 2024.
• Junior Thierry Tatsi Tsifo, a doctoral candidate in the philosophy of law at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Junior Thierry will conduct a research stay at the CER focusing on contemporary law as it pertains to surrogacy and legal philosophical issues surrounding male same-sex parenting, under the guidance of Charles Dupras, during the months of May and June 2024.
• Nolwenn Veillard, a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Rennes 1. Nolwenn will conduct a second internship at the CRE, focusing on gender relations in various emotional registers used in the antispeciesist activist milieu, which will take place under the supervision of Valéry Giroux from July 10 to September 13, 2023.

And to this wonderful team, we also add the graduate scholarship recipients:

• Thomas Emmaüs Adetou, pursuing a Ph.D. under the supervision of Christine Tappolet and Martin Gibert in philosophy at the University of Montreal. His project is titled Artificial Agency and Moral Responsibility.
• Véronique Chetmi Eyali, undertaking a Ph.D. under the guidance of Sylvie Loriaux and Thierry Rodon in political science at Laval University. Her project is titled Epistemic Injustices and Epistemic Resistances: Experiences of Ten Indigenous Women Activists in Canada.
• Louis Pierre Côté, working towards a Ph.D. under the supervision of Naïma Hamrouni in philosophy at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières. His research project is titled The Carceral Contract: Reconsidering the Prison Industrial Complex through Charles W. Mills’s Domination Contract.
• Ann-Sophie Gravel, pursuing a Master’s degree under the direction of Catherine Rioux and Patrick Turmel in philosophy at Laval University. Her research project is titled The Rationality of Love in the 21st Century: Gamification of Love and Ethics of Dating Apps.
• Gabrielle Joni Verreault, in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. under the supervision of Bryn Williams-Jones in bioethics at the University of Montreal. Her project is titled Game of Drones and Lord of the Memes: Self-Regulated Civil Ethics in Technological Warfare and Democratized in Ukraine.
• Alexis Morin-Martel, pursuing a Ph.D. under the guidance of Natalie Stoljar and Jocelyn Maclure in philosophy at McGill University. His research project is titled The Value of Epistemic Trust in Public Experts.
• Alexandre Poisson, working on a Ph.D. under the direction of Amandine Catala and Mauro Rossi, in philosophy, at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His project is titled Conceptual Import and Interdisciplinarity: The Epistemic Contributions of Feminist Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, and Critical Disability Studies to Animal Ethics.
• Marie-Christine Roy, pursuing a Ph.D. under the guidance of Ryoa Chung and Yves-Marie Abraham in applied human sciences at the University of Montreal. Her project is titled Slow Fashion’ or the Slowing Down of the Fashion Industry: A Degrowth Solution to Structural Injustices in the Garment Industry.