We cordially invite you to this upcoming workshop: What is the Animal?
February 20, 2025.
Nám. Čs. legií 565 (the Historical building), Room room 03-004, Pardubice I.
Texts are available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yIY_-o7DhXf3R88JfuY2lIdQxNVIVzUH?usp=drive_link
09 :00 – 10:00 Niklas Forsberg on Jacques Derrida
· Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet, trans. David Wills (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008). Chapter 1.
10:10 – 11:10 Herwig Grimm on Peter Singer and Tom Regan
· Peter Singer, “All Animals Are Equal,” in Animal Rights and Human Obligations, ed. Tom Regan and Peter Singer (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976), 148–62; Tom Regan, “The Case for Animal Rights,” in In Defense of Animals, ed. Peter Singer (New York: Harper & Row, 1986), 13–26.
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee
11.30 – 13:00 Jeff McMahan on Jeff McMahan (Online)
· Jeff McMahan, “‘Our Fellow Creatures,’” The Journal of Ethics 9, no. 3 (October 1, 2005): 353–80, doi:10.1007/s10892-005-3512-2.
13.00 – 14:00 Lunch
14: 00 – 15: 00 Erich Linder on Christine Korsgaard
· Christine M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), Chapter 1.
15:10 – 16:10 Nina Collin on Gary Francione
· Gary Francione and Alan Watson, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), Chapter 4. The Cure for Our Moral Schizophrenia: The Principle of Equal Consideration.”
16:10 – 16:40 Coffee
16:40 – 17:40 Silvia Caprioglio Panizza on Donaldson and Kymlicka
· Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, 1st edition (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), Chapter 2. Universal Basic Rights for Animals.
19:00 DINNER
This workshop has been organized as part of the Aktion joint grant scheme project "Contested moral framings: Human and animal life", between the Centre for Ethics (UPCE) and the Messerli Research Institute (Vienna).