We extend a warm invitation to attend the "Thinking The Future: Dialogues on Technology, Subjectivity, and Ethics Seminar," organized by the Institute for Contemporary Ethics (ICE) in partnership with the School of Philosophy at North West University. We are pleased to have Catia Faria from the University of Madrid as our guest speaker, who will be addressing the topic of "Animal Ethics in Natural Environments: Addressing Suffering Among Wild Animals and Interventions in Nature." We welcome the participation of academics at this event.
Synopsis
Catia Faria will be talking to us about her book Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature. The book explores wild animal suffering as a moral issue and argues that there is a moral obligation to intervene in nature to alleviate this. It begins by establishing two main assumptions: suffering is bad, and if we can prevent or reduce suffering without causing greater harm and without jeopardizing other important values, we have an ethical obligation to do so. The first chapter emphasizes that nonhuman animals, including wild animals, are morally considerable beings due to their sentience and well-being, which should be equally valued regardless of species membership. The book contends that if death is bad for humans, it may also be bad for nonhuman animals, providing additional reasons to act on behalf of wild animals to prevent their suffering and death. Read more.
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