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Michiel Korthals |
| Korthals is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Applied Philosophy at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He is the author of eleven books on such topics as the Frankfurt School, Habermas, philosophy of science, and sustainability. His research interests include agricultural and food ethics and democracy and sustainability. He is currently a visiting professor in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University. |
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Friday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. EESAT 130 |
| Many animal ethicists take as a reference wild, non-domesticated animals or animals in their 'natural' habitat, i.e., the habitat that animals are supposed to have, before humans interfered. Furthermore, they seem to suggest that ethical decision making of the treatment of animals can abstract from the social and cultural context of these animals. Korthals tackles these two presuppositions employing a pragmatist approach, first, by exploring the changing relations between wild and domesticated animals, and especially paying attention to animals that are becoming de-domesticated, and second, by considering the diverse dilemmas of managing domesticated and dedomesticated animals in a world where not only the ethical status of animals is at stake but also the environmental, aesthetic, and social meaning and implications of livestock and other animals. |
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The Lecture is Free and Open to the Public For special accomodation, contact us at 940-565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu |
