Zoey Lavallee
Assistant Professor, Joint appointment with the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy
PhD 2021, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Zoey Lavallee is an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy. They received their PhD in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and have held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at McGill and a postdoctoral position at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ). They co-organise the CRÉ’s interdisciplinary research group in philosophy of mental health (CRÉ-POMH).
Zoey works primarily in philosophy of psychiatry and philosophy of mind, especially situated cognition and affectivity. They also have continuing interests in medical and technology ethics, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology. Their research is particularly concerned with how environments (social, material, technological) shape emotion, agency, and self-understanding, and recent and ongoing projects address topics including addiction and recovery; affective and epistemic injustices associated with sanism and psychiatrization; and the ethics of AI in relation to mental health.
- Lavallee, Z., Snoek, A., & Gammelsæter, F. (2025). Addiction and emotions: From distress-regulation loops to affective recovery niches. Philosophical Psychology, 1–28.
- Lavallee, Z. (2024). There’s a pill for that: Bad pharmaceutical scaffolding and psychiatrization. Topoi, 44(2), 353–366.
- Lavallee, Z., & Gagné-Julien, A.-M. (2024). Affective injustice, sanism and psychiatry. Synthese, 204(3), 94.
- Lavallee, Z., & Osler, L. (2024). Affordances and the shape of addiction. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 31(4), 379–395.
- Lavallee, Z. (2023). Affective scaffolding in addiction. Inquiry, 69(4), 2286–2314.
- Lavallee, Z. (2020). Addictive craving: There’s more to wanting more. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 27(3), 227–238.