CFP: Animals and Death
Submission deadline: August 5, 2016
Conference date(s):
September 27, 2016
Conference Venue:
School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science, University of Leeds
Leeds,
United Kingdom
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Animals and Death is a one day philosophy conference organised by the APE Collective at the University of Leeds, focusing on the moral problems surrounding animals and death. Questions that might be addressed include:
* How does death harm animals and how is this different from how it harms humans?
* Should we intervene in predator, prey relations to minimize/eliminate death?
* Do we owe posthumous treatment to animals and their corpses?
* When, if ever, is it right to 'euthanise' a companion animal?
* Is death worse than non-existence for animals?
The conference will be held on 27th September 2016 at the University of Leeds. We invite presentations from anybody who does not hold a doctoral degree or who has received their doctorate within 3 years of the conference date. We welcome papers of both an applied and theoretical nature from any tradition of philosophy and also interdisciplinary work that considers the moral problems relating to animals and death. Speakers will be given a 30 minute presentation slot followed by a 15 minute Q and A session. We particularly encourage submissions from under-represented groups in philosophy.
Confirmed keynote: Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield).
Thanks to the generous support from the Society of Applied Philosophy, the Analysis Trust, the Centre for Ethics and Metaethics, and the school of PHRS at the University of Leeds, all speakers will receive a £30 travel bursary and have one night’s accommodation and their conference meal covered. Lunch will also be provided for all conference attendees.
Submissions: Please send an abstract of up to 500 words to: [email protected] by 5th August 2016. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and include no information that identifies the author or their institution. Please send abstracts in .doc or .pdf format, accompanied by a separate document including the author’s name, paper title, institutional affiliation and contact details.
For further details please see: www.animalsanddeath.wix.com/home