Ethics of Sentience
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL)
in conjunction with
UCD School of Philosophy
are presenting
The Value of Sentience: Empathy, Vulnerability, and Recognition
A Conference in Animal Ethics
The conference aims to contribute to the debate surrounding sentience in animal ethics by investigating, in a novel way, the connections between sentience and key moral attitudes such as feelings of empathy towards and the recognition of the vulnerability of sentient beings.
The conference is generously sponsored by:
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UCD Foundation
Programme:
| Wednesday 7th March |
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Registration |
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Chair: Patrizia Setola |
Keynote speaker: Elisa Aaltola (University of Eastern Finland): “The politics of emotion and affective animal ethics: From shame to joy” |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Lunch |
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| B1 Parallel Session I Chair: Christopher Cowley |
B2 Parallel Session II Chair: Marinus Ferreira |
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| 14:30-15:10 |
Eda Keskin (Martin Luther Universitӓt Halle-Wittenberg): “Film Art and Developing Empathy for Sentient Beings” |
David Mathers: “Ethical implications of indeterminate cases” |
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| 15:10-15-50 |
Fergal McHugh (UCD): “Bare Humanity: Imagination and Method” |
Oliver Santiago Quick (Aarhus University): “Integrative Empathy and Animal Moral Status” |
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| 15:50-16:20 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:20-17:20 |
Chair: Elisa Aaltola |
Keynote speaker: Ben Bramble (TCD) |
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| Thursday 8th March |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Chair: Patrizia Setola |
B1 Keynote speaker: Angela Martin (University of Fribourg): “A Conceptual Analysis of Vulnerability and Sentience and their Moral Implications” |
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| B1 Parallel Session III Chair: Austin Dwyer |
B2 Parallel Session IV Chair: Marinus Ferreira |
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| 11:20-11:00 |
Charlotte Figueroa (University of Oxford): “Using Art to Develop Empathy towards Non-Human Animals” |
Friederike Zenker (Universität Basel): “Singular Animal or Placeholder? Photography, Ordinary Use, and Obvious Sentience” |
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 12:00-13:00 |
Chair: Rowland Stout |
Keynote speaker: Danielle Petherbridge (UCD) |
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-15:00 |
Chair: Angela Martin |
B1 Keynote speaker: Clare Palmer (Texas A&M University): “Sentient wild animals and climate change: Towards an ethics of vulnerability” |
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| B1 Parallel Session V Chair: Marinus Ferreira |
B2 Parallel Session VI Chair: Rowland Stout |
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| 15:00-15:40 |
Catia Faria (University of Minho): “Vulnerability and the ethics of environmental enhancement” |
Martin Huth (University of Vienna): “Framed Animals. The Recognizability of Nonhuman Beings" |
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| 15:40-16:20 |
Marc Wilcox (University of Leeds): “Against the Sentience Account” |
Jan Deckers: “How a greater focus on empathy might refresh discussions of sentience” |
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| 16:20-16:40 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:40-17:40 |
Chair: Patrizia Setola |
Keynote speaker: Gary Francione (Rutgers University) (via Skype): "Accounting for All Interests--Reallocating the Burden in Matters of Personhood" |
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| 18:30 |
Conference Dinner |
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| Friday 9th March |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Chair: Angela Martin |
Keynote speaker: Tony Milligan (KCL): “Toleration and Compassion in Animal Ethics” |
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| 11:00-11:20 |
Coffee break |
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B1 Parallel Session VII Chair: Conor Morris |
B2 Parallel Session VIII Chair: Tatjana von Solodkoff |
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| 11:20-12:00 |
Wayne Williams (University of Hull):“A Common Sense: Sentience, Sympathy and the Metaethics of Vulnerability” |
Rebekah Humphreys (University of Wales Trinity St David): “Desensitisation, compartmentalisation, and animal experimentation: on exercising moral feelings and the imagination" |
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| 12:00-12:40 |
Maude Ouellette-Dubé (University of Fribourg): “Why do we need Care in animal ethics?” |
Anya Daly (UCD): “The Primordial ‘we’, Sentience and Animal Ethics” |
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| 12:40-13:40 |
Lunch |
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| B1 Parallel Session IX Chair: Marinus Ferreira |
B2 Parallel Session X Chair: Patrizia Setola |
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| 13:40-14:20 |
Tatjana von Solodkoff (UCD): “Non-Human Animals and the Harm Relation” |
Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc (Michigan State University): “Is It Possible to Objectify Animals?” (via Skype) |
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| 14:20-15:20 |
Chair: Alice Crary |
Keynote speaker: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University): “Challenging Disposability” |
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| 15:20-16:20 |
Chair: Lori Gruen |
Keynote speaker: Eduardo Mendieta (Penn State University): "Emotional Companions: Animals, Pets, Robots" |
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| 16:20-16:40 |
Coffee break |
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| 16:40-17:40 |
Chair: Patrizia Setola |
Keynote speaker: Alice Crary (IAS/Oxford): “Comments on a Contested Comparison: Animals and Race” |
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| 17:40-19:30 |
Closing remarks followed by reception |
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