Birte Wrage Abstract not yet available

Don Ross Humans typically manipulate animals by conditioning their responses or by threatening them with harm. Neither of these forms of interaction treats them as economic agents who make choices under incentives. I describe economic experiments underway with 7 elephants to allow for quantitative modeling of their agency, as we do with people. The experimental…

Gay Bradshaw Abstract not yet available

Steve Cooke This talk discusses the moral significance of relationships between social nonhuman animals. It argues that nonhuman relationships can be sufficiently important to them to generate duties in moral agents. The talk examines the consequences of this for animal agriculture. One consequence is that putatively good welfare improvements are cast in a different light.…

Judith Benz-Schwarzburg & Johanna Karg Abstract not yet available

A new approach to industrial farm animal reform Gary Comstock Abstract: Philosophers interested in the moral standing of so-called food animals have helped to raise awareness of the pains and deprivations suffered by cows and pigs. In its first phase, the animal rights movement—led by Peter Singer (Singer, 1975; Regan, 1983) and Tom Regan among…

Mara-Daria Cojocaru & Florian Steinberger Abstract: There are a number of ways in which people object to dog training and these hinge, of course, on what ‘dog training’ is taken to mean. People object to methods that compromise the animals’ welfare – and vehemently disagree as to which methods do have that effect. People also…

Susana Monsó In this paper, we argue that scientists working on the animal morality debate have been operating with a narrow view of morality that prematurely limits the variety of moral practices that animals may be capable of. We show how this bias can be partially corrected by paying more attention to the touch behaviours…

Dennis Papadopoulos Indigenous political philosophy has given a special place to the ecosystems that political communities share. On ecological grounds, Indigenous communities established shared and overlapping jurisdictions with each other and Settler states. This model of shared jurisdiction includes sharing with wild animal communities. Legitimate jurisdiction is given by the ecosystems we share. Our shared…

Pieter Adriaens On the face of it, it seems ludicrous to hold non-human animals morally responsible for what they do or don’t do. Ascribing moral agency to non-human animals seems like a category mistake – an example of what Fisher terms ‘categorical anthropomorphism’. In this talk, I attempt to unravel this belief by means of…