Accomplishments: Department of Philosophy
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has published an article, "Maternity and Migration," in the journal Philosophy Compass.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published the article "Valuing Animals as They Are — Whether They Feel It Or Not," in the European Journal of Philosophy.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper titled "Valuing Animals As They Are—Whether They Feel It or Not" in the European Journal of Philosophy. In this paper, she provides two respect-based arguments in defense of the claim that animals can be subject to dignitary wrongs, such as when they are dressed up in human clothing, mocked, and shamed on…
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) presented an invited talk at the University of Colorado, Boulder, titled "What Epistemology Can Tell Us About Moral Responsibility for Meat Eating." This talk was sponsored by the CU Boulder philosophy department's Center for Values and Social Policy.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has published a book, Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, with Oxford University Press.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper, "On Moral Ignorance and Mistakes of Fact: a Response to Harman," in Philosophia. In this paper, she explains why we ought to always blame the morally ignorant, yet we shouldn't always blame those who make mistakes of fact (in moral contexts).
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) recently was appointed co-president of the Society for the Study of Animal Ethics.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter titled "Veganism, (Almost) Harm-Free Animal Flesh, and Nonmaleficence: Navigating Dietary Ethics in an Unjust World" in the Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics. In this chapter, she provides an overview of the harms that animals, the environment, and humans endure as a result of industrial animal…
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) gave an invited presentation at the University of Colorado (CU), Boulder. In this talk, titled "It’s Not Just a Personal Preference: Racialized Discrimination in the Tinder Context," she argued that drawing race-based distinctions in the dating context constitutes deeply wrongful…
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) and her co-author Bob Fischer (Texas State University) published an article, "Don’t Demean 'Invasives': Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination" for the special issue "Animal Ethics: Questioning the Orthodoxy" of the journal Animals. This article challenges conservation categorization schemes that treat…
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a paper titled "A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-being" in Acta Analytica. This article presents and defends a novel account of feline well-being that challenges the standard belief that domestic cats ought to be permanently confined.
Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) just received some advance copies of his new book, On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair, published by Oxford University Press in Britain. This is a “trade book,” aimed at educated laypersons, as well as specialized scholars. Accordingly, it is a summary, synthesis, and…