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| Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition |
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| Start Date: | 3/14/2013 | Start Time: | 3:15 PM |
| End Date: | 3/14/2013 | End Time: | 4:45 PM |
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Event Description
This talk introduces various conceptions of personhood, including the idea that a person is one who has a biographical sense of self and a robust, conscious sense of his or her own past and future. It examines recent empirical research related to deciding the question of which non-human animals, if any, qualify as persons or at least near-persons. The talk concludes by exploring possible implications of these ideas for various human uses of animals, including for food.
Professor Gary Varner is Head of the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University and specializes in environmental and animal ethics, utilitarianism, and environmental law. |
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