The field of animal ethics is evolving rapidly. Since over 50 years, academic animal ethicists have been discussing the question of what moral agents owe to nonhuman animals. In the last decade, the political turn in animal ethics led to many publications about political duties owed to animals. Furthermore, animal ethicists started to investigate more in detail what, if anything, humans owe to wild animals. During this workshop, we discuss the relationship of animal ethics and environmental ethics as well as various in-progress articles in different domains in animal ethics.
Hybrid Pre-Workshop at the University of Fribourg
Place and time: May 2nd (Monday), 13.15 – 17:00, PER 2.223, Chemin du museé, 1700 Fribourg. Online also possible after registration.
13.15-14.15: Eze Paez (Barcelona): Protecting animals and preserving nature: two incompatible aims
14.15-15.30 Break
14.30- 15.30 Tristan Katz (Fribourg): Supporting interventions to reduce wild animal suffering with
common-sense ethical principles
15.45-16.45 Break
15.45-16.45 Miriam Zemanova (Fribourg): Importance of the 3Rs principles in wildlife research
Main workshop at the University of Basel
Place: Room 035, Kollegienhaus, University of Basel, Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel
Time table:
10:00 – 10:10: Welcome
10:10 – 11:10: Francois Jaquet (Strasbourg): Speciesism: Towards an Operational Definition
11:15 – 12:15: Anna Wienhues (Zürich): Responsibility for Interspecies Justice
12:15 – 13:45: Lunch break
13:45 – 14:45: Eze Paez (Barcelona): Republican Freedom and Wild Animal Suffering
14:50 – 15:50: Federico Zuolo (Genoa): If you are an egalitarian, how come you are so inclusive? On inclusive equality in animal ethics and beyond
15:50 – 16:10: Break
16:10 – 17:10: Angela Martin (Basel): Entomophagy – what, if anything, do we owe to insects?
17:15 – 18:15: Felicitas Selter (Hannover): Respecting Fido’s autonomy? What we (don‘t) owe to
animals in end-of-life decisions
Inscription:
• Fribourg: For inscriptions to the event at the University of Fribourg, please contact laura.garciaportela@unifr.ch until 28.4.2022. You will get the link to the event after registration.
• Basel: There is limited space in the room at Basel University, and inscription is therefore obligatory. For inscription, write an email to angela.martin@unibas.ch until 28.4.2022.
Link to the event and program: https://philosophie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/details/workshop-what-we-owe-to-animals/