nonhuman animals Archives - Department of Philosophy

Elena Gordon, smiling broadly and wearing glasses in front of an open, brownish background

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Elena Gordon is currently an Extending New Narratives Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University. She mainly works on the philosophy of David Hume, but her research for the Extending New Narratives project examines Catharine Macaulay’s (1731-1791) philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the role of non-human animals in human moral and epistemic development.

3:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Tristram McPherson is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, while David Plunkett is an associate professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. They will be speaking on the foundations of epistemic normativity.

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Maria Alvarez, professor of philosophy at King’s College London, specializes in the philosophy of action, including the metaphysics and explanation of actions. She also teaches in the field of ethics and metaethics. Her talk will focus on the work of G. E. M. Anscombe to help elucidate the question of whether nonhuman animals have moral agency.

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Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Tristram McPherson, Ohio State, David Plunkett, Dartmouth)

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Maria Alvarez, King’s College London)