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Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

26th June 2023

is currently pursuing a DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford with the support of a Rhodes scholarship. She works under the supervision of Jeff McMahan and Alison Hills on moral behavior in nonhuman animals, such as empathy and responsiveness to norms. Prior to her DPhil studies, she completed a MA in Philosophy at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Christian Nadeau and Valéry Giroux on animal legal personhood. Her research interests include animal ethics, practical ethics, moral theory, and legal philosophy. She is also the author or co-author of two books on the history of the animal protection movement: Que veulent les véganes? La cause animale, de Platon au mouvement antispéciste (in English: What Do Vegans Want? The Animal Cause, from Plato to the Antispecist Movement), co-written with Alexia Renard, and Au nom des animaux : l’histoire de la SPCA de Montréal (1869-2019) (in English: In the Name of Animals: the History of the Montreal SPCA (1869-2019). The latter was published for the Montreal SPCA’s 150th anniversary.