Academic Curriculum Vitae

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

• 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. (Forecoming)
•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

• 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 was a judge in McGill's ethics bowl on February 16, 2025
• 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 from the First Peoples’ House at McGill 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