Conferenza sull'etica degli animali - 3/5/2024 ore 16.15, San Niccolò, aula 455

[Eventi Area 2]

La Cattedra di Filosofia Morale dell' Università degli Studi di Siena,
Dipartimento DISPOC, invita ad una conferenza del

PROF. GARY STEINER (Brucknell University, USA)
WHAT WE OWE TO NONHUMAN ANIMALS - The Historical Pretensions of Reason and
the Ideal of Felt Kinship

Venerdì, 3 maggio 2024, ore 16.15-18, San Niccolò, Aula 455 (quarto piano),
Via Roma, 56, Siena.

Streaming in diretta: http://meet.google.com/cde-dpxq-kwg

Tutti gli interessati sono benvenuti.

Il docente, Prof. Christoph Lumer

Abstract:

In this talk, Professor Steiner will provide an overview of central themes
from his recent book *What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals: The Historical
Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship* (Routledge, 2023).
Where the Western philosophical tradition has maintained that the idea of
human superiority over all non-human beings is a product of the impartial
employment of reason, Professor Steiner argues that in fact the tradition
has used reason as a tool for rationalizing this prior commitment to human
superiority over the nonhuman world. Where the tradition has claimed that
reason operates independently of our embodied and affective (emotional)
constitution, Professor Steiner argues for the mutual interplay of reason
and emotion in the formation of moral commitments, and he further argues
for the conclusion that a great many nonhuman animals have rich subjective
lives that in essential respects place them on a par with human beings.
Rather than seeking to preserve the historical status of human beings as
what Kant called "the titular lords of nature," we ought to broaden
considerably our conception the moral community so as to include all
sentient beings as full and direct beneficiaries of moral concern.

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Lumer
Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Siena (Italy)
Home 1: http://www.lumer.info
Home 2: https://docenti.unisi.it/en/lumer
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