Chair Holder
Iwao Hirose began his academic career as Donnelly Junior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford and then as Research Fellow at Harvard University and Melbourne University. He moved to McGill University in 2007, where I teach and conduct research as Professor. He is the author of
The Ethics of Health Care Rationing (Routledge, 2014, 2022) with Greg Bognar,
Moral Aggregation (Oxford University Press, 2015),
Egalitarianism (Routledge, 2015), and
The Ethics of Pandemics (Routledge, 2022). He is also a co-editor of
Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (Oxford University Press, 2015) with Jonas Olson and
Weighing and Reasoning (Oxford University Press, 2015) with Andrew Reisner. He has held visiting fellowships and professorships at Universite Catholique de Louvain; University of Stockholm; University of Tokyo; St Anne's College, Oxford; New York University; Fondation Brocher; College d'etudes mondiales, Paris; the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Tokyo; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm; and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, and the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the Kitty Newman Memorial Award by the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Emil Andersson earned his Ph.D. in practical philosophy from Uppsala University in 2019. His thesis,
Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy, deals with the topic of political legitimacy from a Rawlsian contractualist perspective. Before coming to McGill, Emil was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. His research there was primarily focused on contractualism and justice between generations. Emil’s postdoctoral research project,
Extending Liberal Legitimacy, is funded by a three-year international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council. The project is a continuation of his dissertation project, and pursues the idea that liberal legitimacy requires not only justifiability to all the present citizens of a state, but to future citizens and non-citizens as well.
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Graduate Researcher
Keven Bisson holds a bachelor degree in philosophy from Laval University (2016-2019) and a master degree in philosophy from the same institution (2019-2021). His master thesis is on the effective altruism’s approach to tackle global poverty and on the criticisms addressed to it. He wrote this thesis under the supervision of professor Jocelyn Maclure. He started a PhD in philosophy at McGill university in September of 2021. His thesis is going to be under the supervision of professor Iwao Hirose. Keven aims to address the problem of how to deal with moral uncertainty when acting to maximize the good in the far future.
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Mingqiu Xue started a PhD in philosophy at McGill University in September 2022. He works primarily in political philosophy, ethics, and the intersection of ethics and epistemology. He is also interested in moral responsibility, moral psychology and personal identity. He is currently working on public reason, epistemic partiality in friendship and moral encroachment. Before coming to McGill, he earned a Master of Arts in philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Laws from China University of Political Science and Law. Visit Mingqiu's webpage.
