RAY W. ALDRED

e-mail: ray.aldred@tuta.com
Philosophy Department ⋄ McGill University
855 Sherbrook St. West ⋄ Montreal, QC ⋄ Canada ⋄ H3A 2T7

EDUCATION

• McGill University, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Philosophy (Expected in November 2026)
• University of Calgary, M.A., Department of Philosophy (2013)
• University of Calgary, B.A. (honours – first class), Department of Philosophy (2011)

CERTIFICATION AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING

• Data Scientist Professional Certificate in Python, DataCamp, 2023
  

SPECIALIZATION

Areas of Specialization

• Indigenous Philosophy
• Philosophy of Disability
• Philosophy of Sex and Love
• Philosophy of Mind
• Neurophilosophy
• Ethics (Bioethics)
• AI
• Data Science

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

• Aldred, R. (2026). A Sacred Bond: Indigenous Reflections on Disability, Love, and the Church. In A. G. Jorgenson, L. MacGregor, & T. E. Reynolds (Eds.), Disrupting Stories and Images of the Church: Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability. Bloomsbury.
• Tremain, S., & Aldred, R. (2025, July 16). Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred. BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/07/16/dialogues-on-disability-shelley-tremain-interviews-raymond-aldred-3/
• Aldred, R. (2019). Extended Minds, Extended Agents? Cognitive Disability in a Social World. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics, 6(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. Iwao 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. Dominic 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

• Confessions of an Indigenous AI Frankenstein, Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6, Thursday, January 29, 2026.
• 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, & Revitalization 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.
• 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.

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

• McGill University; Seminar: Philosophy of Law (Hate Speech), winter 2014. (Professor Natalie Stoljar)
• McGill University; Seminar: Ethics (Egalitarianism), fall 2014. (Professor Iwao Hirose)
• McGill University; Seminar: 18th Century Philosophy (Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals), fall 2014. (Professor Alison Laywin)
• McGill University; Guided Research in Ancient Philosophy (Reason and Desire in
  Aristotle, Stoicism, and Epicureanism), winter 2014. (Professor Gaelle Fiasse)
• McGill University; Seminar in Political Theory, winter 2014. (Professor Greg Mikkelson)
• McGill University; Seminar in Metaphysics, winter 2014. (Professor David Davies)
• McGill University; Seminar in Epistemology, fall 2013. (Professor Michael Blome-Tillman)
• University of Calgary; Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness, fall 2012. (Professor Walter Glannon)
• University of Calgary; Topics in Philosophy of Science: Natural Kinds and Scientific Classification, winter 2012. (Professor Marc Ereshefsky)
• University of Calgary; Topics in the History of Philosophy: Nietzsche’s Critique of
  Morality, University of Calgary, fall 2011. (Professor Mark Migotti)
• University of Calgary; Topics in Social and Political Philosophy: Feminist Political Thought, winter 2012. (Professor Ann Levey)
• University of Calgary; Topics in Ethics: Failure in Moral Philosophy, fall 2011. (Professor David G. Dick)

SERVICES

• I judged at McGill’s ethics bowl on February 16, 2025 and on February 22, 2026
• During my time at McGill, I was a member of the Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education.
• I regularly tutored Indigenous students at McGill’s First Peoples’ House from 2013 to about 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