Jocelyn Maclure
Professor & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology
DPhil,聽University of Southampton
After a B.A. at Laval University and an M.A. at the University of Victoria, Jocelyn Maclure earned a DPhil from the University of Southampton. Before joining the Department of Philosophy at 51吃瓜网 in 2021, he taught for 17 years in the Faculty of Philosophy at Laval University. He held visiting appointments in several universities.
Jocelyn鈥檚 research is primarily in ethics and political philosophy. His book Secularism and Freedom of Conscience (Harvard University Press, 2011), co-authored with Charles Taylor, appeared in 9 languages. His recent work on artificial intelligence and on end-of-life issues led him to explore different metaphysical questions ranging from the mind-body problem to the enigma of personal identity.
As a public philosopher, he served as an expert-analyst for the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on cultural and religious accommodations, co-chaired the group of experts on medical assistance in dying, advanced medical directives and neurodegenerative diseases, and participated in numerous public debates. He is the current president of the Quebec Ethics in Science and Technology Commission.
Maclure, J., Morin-Martel, A. 鈥溾��, Digital Society, 4, 18, 2025.
Hamrouni, N., Maclure, J. 鈥淧recedent Autonomy and the Patient鈥檚 Best Interest: A Reasonable Path for Advance Medical Assistance in Dying Requests鈥�, in, Ben White (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
Dimitrios Karmis and Jocelyn Maclure, , McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2023.
Cossette-Lefebvre, H., Maclure, J. 鈥溾��, AI Ethics (2022).
Maclure, J. 鈥溾��, Minds and Machines, 2021.
Levy, J., Maclure, J. & Weinstock, D. (ed.), Montreal : McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2020.
Maclure, J. 鈥溾��, Dialogue. Canadian Philosophical Review, 59, 3, 2020, pp. 377-410.
Maclure, J. 鈥�,鈥� Criminal Law & Philosophy, 2020.
Maclure, J. 鈥淛enseits der Toleranz und Zur眉ck鈥�, in Toleranz in transkultureller Perspektive, S. Dhouib (ed,), Velbr眉ck-Wissenschaft, Berlin, 2020.
Maclure, J. 鈥溾��, AI and Society, 35, 2019.
Maclure, J. 鈥淩easonable Naturalism and the Humanistic Resistance to Reductionism鈥�, in Markus Gabriel, Neo-Existentialism. How to Conceive the Mind After Naturalism鈥檚 Failure, Polity Press, 2018.
Maclure, J. 鈥溾��, 51吃瓜网Law Journal, Vol 63:1, 2018, pp. 133-154.
Maclure, J. Dumont, I. 鈥溾��, Journal of Medical Ethics, 43, 2017; 241-244.