Christine Tappolet is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Metaethics at the Université de Montréal. She received her M. Phil from the University of London in 1992, her PhD from the University of Geneva in 1996, and has taught at the Université de Montréal since 1997. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles, as well as two books: Émotions et valeurs (PUF, 2000), and with Ruwen Ogien, Les concepts de l’éthique: faut-il être conséquentialiste ? (Éditions Hermann, 2009). She will be in residence at the Centre for Ethics during the fall term, 2011.