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​APE Reading Group

 

 

 

Currently we run an APE Collective reading group in which we discuss philosophical work on animals that impacts philosophy as a whole and philosophical work that focuses on how we should understand animals, our relations to them and their relations to humans and the world generally.  The purpose of the group is not just to consider the specific ideas that feature in given papers but to make ourselves aware of how animals fit within various philosophical theories and problems in order to help us think more broadly when we engage in our own research. 

The group is open to Postgraduate students and staff and we also welcome causal attendance if the topic of a given week is of particular interest to you but commitment to a semester's worth of session is too burdensome. The topics we discuss can be from any area of philosophy and specific papers for reading will be dictated by participants. In the past we covered normative ethics, metaethics, metaphysics and philosophy of mind. If you are interested in being kept up to date with what we are doing, please email Marc at m.g.wilcox@leeds.ac.uk and request to be added to the mailing list for the APE Reading Group.

The APE Collective Reading Group is not currently running.

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Previous Events

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Animals and Death Conference 2016

 

The APE Collective Animals and Death Conference took place at the University of Leeds on 27th September 2016. Animals and Death was a one day philosophy conference on the topic of the moral problems surrounding animals and death.Questions that were addressed included, How does death harm animals? Do animal lives have meaning? Should we intervene in predator, prey relations to minimize/eliminate death?  When, if ever, is it right to 'euthanise' a companion animal?

The presented papers were as follows:

 

​The Alleged Goodness of Death for Animals - Ricardo Miguel (Universidade de Lisboa)

 

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Mortality and Meaning in Animal Life - Joshua Thomas (University of Sheffield)

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Death, Termination and Biological Laws - Rina Michaela Tzinman (Bilkent University)

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Domestication and Moral Responsibility - Daniele Lorenzini (University of Paris)

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Companion Animals and the Ethics of Euthanasia - Eva Meijer (University of Amsterdam)

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Predation Catch-22: Disentangling Rights of Prey, Predators, and Rescuers - Julius Kapembwa (University of Reading)

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​Keynote: The Problem of Wild Animal Deaths - Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield)

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​​For more information please see: www.animalsanddeath.wix.com/home