Kant, Animal Moral Status, Environmental Ethics, and Vulnerability
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The Lisbon Kant Group Graduate Conference on “Kant, Animal Moral Status, Environmental Ethics, and Vulnerability” will take place in room 219 of Colégio Almada Negreiros, from 4 to 5 September 2023. The conference seeks to explore the relevance of Kant’s philosophy in addressing the ethical challenges posed by the current ecological crisis, the moral standing of non-human animals, and the question of vulnerability.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
David Baumeister (University of Stuttgart)
Holly Wilson (Louisiana State University)
ORGANISATION
Francisco Lisboa
Inês Salgueiro
Programme
Monday, September 4
11h00–11h15
Welcoming Session
11h15–12h15
David Baumeister, Crooked Timber: Toward a Kantian Theory of Environmental Vulnerability
Chair: Inês Salgueiro
12h15–13h00
Semyon Reshenin, Friedrich Schiller’s Aesthetic Environmentalism
Chair: João Lemos
13h00–14h15
Lunch Break
14h15–15h00
Stefan Pinzan, Kant’s Ethics of Care
Chair: Francisco Maia
15h00–15h45
João Esteves da Silva, The Moral Significance of (Non-Human) Animal Minds: A Post-Kantian, Post-Analytic Perspective
Chair: Francisco Lisboa
15h45–16h00
Coffee Break
16h00–16h45
Katja Tiisala, Sustainability and Scales of Respectful Relating
Chair: Inês Salgueiro
16h45–17h45
Holly Wilson, Kant, Anthropocentrism, and Animal Welfare
Chair: Francisco Lisboa
Tuesday, September 5
11h00–11h15
Welcoming
11h15–12h15
Eric Linder, Veterinarian/Scheveterinarian: Can Kantian Constitutivism Guide Veterinarians in Euthanasia For Diagnostic Purposes?
Chair: Inês Salgueiro
12h15–13h00
Inês Salgueiro, A Kantian Defence of Animal Concern
Chair: Francisco Lisboa
13h00–14h15
Lunch Break
14h15–15h00
Francisco Lisboa, Kantian Constructivism, Finitude and Vulnerability
Chair: Sofia Estudante
15h00–15h45
Álvaro Rodríguez-González, Alive and free: are organisms autonomous according to Kant?
Chair: Inês Salgueiro