Fellowships and Grants
| 2017 | FQRSC subvention programme AUDACE, (Principal investigator: François-Joseph Lapointe), 5 researchers “Quand les bactéries font la loi – enjeux scientifiques, philosophiques, éthiques, politiques et légaux de l’utilisation du microbiome à des fins d’identification judiciaire” |
| 2017 | SSHRC CONNEXION Grant, (Principal investigator: Gregory Mikkelson), 4 researchers “Convergence and Divergence between Animal and Environmental Ethics” |
| 2015-2018 | LIA subvention Laboratoire international associé CNRS (France) (Principal Investigator: Philippe Huneman, CNRS) “Epistemological and Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (ECIEB)“ |
| 2014-2018 | SSHRC INSIGHT Grant with Christophe Malaterre “On the Epistemological Diversity of Biodiversity Concepts” |
| 2010-2013 | SSHRC Standard Research Grant “Understanding emergent superorganisms to define biological individuality” |
| 2005-2008 | SSHRC Standard Research Grant “The new laws of biology and the expansion of evolutionary theory” |
| 2005-2008 | FQRSC subvention établissement nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs “Rôle des généralisations et des tendances en épistémologie de la théorie de l’évolution” |
| 2007-2008 | SSHRC International Opportunities Fund (Principal Investigator, Denis Walsh, University of Toronto) For the Consortium for the History and Philosophy of Biology |
| 2004-2005 | FQRSC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Fonds québecois de la recherche sur la société et la culture). Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology University of Toronto under the supervision of Paul Thompson. |
| 2003-2004 | Evan Frankel Fellow Duke University |
| 1999-2004 | Graduate school fellowship and stipend for the PhD in philosophy Duke University |
| 1999-2003 | Doctoral fellowship from the SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) |
| 1999-2002 | Doctoral fellowship from the FQRSC (Québec’s equivalent of the Canadian fellowship) |
Awards
| 2024 | Chevalier, Ordre national du Québec (Québec) |
| 2023 | Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes académiques (France) |
| 2021 | Fellow, Royal Society of Canada |
| 2014-2016 | ÉSOPE Chair of philosophy Université de Montréal |
| Juillet 2013 | Invited Professor, Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon Summer School on Evolution |
| 2008 | Teaching award “Excellence en enseignement: catégorie professeur en début de carrière” Université de Montréal |
| 2008 | Teaching award “Excellence en enseignement: secteur lettres et sciences humaines” Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal |
| 2003-2004 | Named Instructorship award, William B. Peach Instructor of Philosophy Duke University |
