
ABOUT

I am philosopher specializing in animal ethics, practical ethics, moral theory, and philosophy of emotion.
Starting in September 2025, I will be a postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy at Queen’s University in Canada. I will be working with Will Kymlicka on reciprocity in nonhuman animals and its implications for theories of justice. My research project is funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
In March 2025, I completed a DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford with the support of a Rhodes Scholarship and a doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC). My thesis explored the possibility of recognizing some animals as moral agents. It was supervised by Jeff McMahan, Alison Hills, and Dominic Wilkinson. At Oxford, I had the chance of teaching the three main undergraduate courses in moral philosophy: Moral Philosophy: Mill (first year), Ethics (second year), and Practical Ethics (third year).
I am also the author or co-author of two books on the history and philosophy of animal advocacy: Que veulent les véganes? La cause animale, de Platon au mouvement antispéciste (Fides, 2021, co-written with Alexia Renard) and Au nom des animaux : l'histoire de la SPCA de Montréal (1869-2019) (Somme toute, 2019).
RESEARCH
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Articles
· "Les véganes au Québec : tensions à gauche et alliances en construction", dossier "Le nouveau clivage idéologique du Québec", Bulletin d’histoire politique, vol. 30, no. 3, fall 2023, Montreal, VLB Éditeur.
Book Chapters
· “Can Animals Be Moral Agents? Why the Debate Matters for Animal Ethics”, The Vegan and Plant-Based Handbook, New York, Springer, 2024.
Research Notes
· Co-written with Michaël Lessard and Daphnée B. Ménard. "Le droit animalier québécois : vers un agenda de recherche", Revue de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke, vol. 53, no. 2, fall 2024.
Book Reviews
· Baratay, Eric (ed.). L’animal désanthropisé : interroger et redéfinir les concepts, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 313 pages, Journal of Animal Ethics, vol. 14, no 1, spring 2024.
· Allais, Lucy et Callanan, John J. (ed.) (2020). Kant and Animals, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, Philosophiques, vol. 48, no. 2, fall 2021.
· Korsgaard, Christine (2018). Fellow Creatures : Our Obligations to the Other Animals, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, Philosophiques, vol. 46, no. 1, fall 2019.
· Adams, Carol J. (2016). La politique sexuelle de la viande : une théorie féministe critique végétarienne, traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Danielle Petitclerc, Lausanne, Éditions L’Âge d’Homme, 357 pages, Ithaque, no. 21, fall 2017.
UNDER REVIEW
Abstracts and papers available upon request.
· A paper on responsibility practices in animals.
· A paper on emotional contagion in animals and its epistemic role.
· A paper on sympathy and the origins of justice in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism.