e-mail: raymond.aldred@pm.me

Philosophy Department

McGill University 855 Sherbrook St. West Montreal, QC, Canada

H3A 2T7

EDUCATION:

McGill University
Ph.D. candidate
Department of Philosophy Present

University of Calgary
M.A.
Department of Philosophy 2013

University of Calgary
B.A. (honours - first class)
Department of Philosophy 2011

SPECIALIZATION:

Areas of Specialization

Indigenous Philosophy Philosophy of Disability Philosophy of Sex and Love Philosophy of Mind
Neurophilosophy
Ethics (Bioethics)

Areas of Competence

Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Religion

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS:

• Indspire Indigenous Bursary, McGill University, October, 2019
• Indspire Indigenous Bursary, McGill University, March, 2019
• Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, January, 2019
• Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, December, 2017
• Macdonald Philosophy Award, McGill University, August, 2016
• Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, August, 2015
• Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, April, 2015
• Philosophy Graduate Award, August 28, 2014
• Dow Hickson Scholarship, McGill University, August, 2013 - March 2014
• Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, August, 2013
• Graduate Excellence Award, McGill University, October, 2013
• MacDonald Philosophy Award, April, 2014
• Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship, March, 2013
• Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship, September May 2012 - April 2013
• Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship, September 2011 - April 2012
• First Class Honors, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2011

PUBLICATIONS:

• Extended Minds, Extended Agents? Cognitive Disability in a Social World. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics. September, 2019. Volume 6, Issue 2.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

• Indigenous Studies Research Assistant, McGill University, Office of the Provost. Fall 2019 - Winter 2020.
• Lecturer, McGill University, Winter 2019: Indigenous Education.
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Winter 2018: Ethical Theory. (Prof. Sarah Stroud)
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Fall 2017: Biomedical Ethics. (Prof. Hirose)
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Winter 2017: Contemporary Moral Issues. (Prof. Kristin Voigt)
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Fall 2016: Biomedical Ethics. (Prof. Iwao Hirose)
• Lecturer, McGill University, Summer 2016: Introduction to Deductive Logic.
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Winter 2016: Contemporary Moral Issues. (Prof. DoIminic Martin)
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Fall 2015: Introduction to Deductive Logic. (Prof. Michael Hallett)
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Winter 2015: Contemporary Moral Issues. (Prof. Kristin Voigt)
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Fall 2014: Biomedical Ethics. (Prof. Iwao Hirose
• Teaching Assistant, McGill University, Fall 2013: Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1. (Prof. Sarah Stroud)
• Teaching Assistant, University of Calgary, Winter 2011 - 2012: Morality, Virtue and Society. (Prof Ann Levey)
• Research, Masters Thesis, University of Calgary, fall 2011 - fall 2013.
Advisor: Professor Walter Glannon
Project: Broadening the Boundaries of Agency: Cognitive Disability, Agency, and Autonomy
• Research, Honours Thesis, University of Calgary, Fall 2009 - Winter 2011
Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Brake
Project: On Disability and the Body: Bringing the Body Back into Social Models of Disabilities

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS:

• A Reply to Dennis Papadopoulos’ Theory of Love, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference, 2018.
• Rethinking Care, Intimacy, and Sexual Citizenship With Disability in Mind, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 2016.
• Indigenous Experiences in the Academy, Resurgence, Reconciliation, & RevitalizationI Conference, McGill University, March 19, 2016.
• Cognitive Science - Neuroscience Academic Day, Panel at McGill University, March 13, 2016.
• What can philosophers of love learn from trauma? Prolegomena to future theories of romantic love, McGill Workshop Series, March 11, 2016.P
• Thinking About Sex, Body, and Pleasure With Disability in Mind, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, April 2015.
• Extended Mind, Extended Agents? On Cognitive Disability, Agency, and Extended Mind Theories, McGill Workshop Series, April 25, 2014.
• Sex Laws and Outlaws: Disability, Sex Work, and Enhancing the Citizenship of Sexual Outlaws, 3rd Global Conference of Sex and the State, October 17, 2014.
• Disability, Sexual Oppression, and Sexual Work, Desiree Alliance Annual Conference, July 2013.
• Ableism and the Schooling of Bodies, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, October 2012.
• Thinking about Disability, Guest Lecture for Sociology 365, University of Calgary, 2009.
• Subject Sensitive Invariantism and Evil: A Pragmatic Reply to the Problem of Evil, Prairie Provinces Undergraduate Philosophy Association Conference, 2007.

SERVICES:

• During my time at McGill I was a member of the Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education.
• I regularly tutor Indigenous students from the First People’s House at McGill from 2013 to 2020.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• Canadian Philosophical Association

• Canadian Bioethics Society

• Society for Philosophy of Disability

• The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love

• The International Neuroethics Society