Great! Perhaps at a conference like this, dedicated to this particular field of inquiry, there could be commitment to start writing papers in a non-anthropocentric fashion? There’s a problem I’ve written about before where academics tend to presume the obvious human interests on topics like climate change and environmental harms where discourse norms are normalized, but for anything pertaining to animal welfare, they slip into “and animal rights groups have historically called for”, rather than “lessened meat-eating (or other adjacent welfare concern) lessens animal suffering”.
This is less problematic in philosophy and in economics to a degree, but it tends to persist in other sciences. Part of the problem is a lack of interdisciplinary connection—just what this conference is posed to help with!
Great! Perhaps at a conference like this, dedicated to this particular field of inquiry, there could be commitment to start writing papers in a non-anthropocentric fashion? There’s a problem I’ve written about before where academics tend to presume the obvious human interests on topics like climate change and environmental harms where discourse norms are normalized, but for anything pertaining to animal welfare, they slip into “and animal rights groups have historically called for”, rather than “lessened meat-eating (or other adjacent welfare concern) lessens animal suffering”.
This is less problematic in philosophy and in economics to a degree, but it tends to persist in other sciences. Part of the problem is a lack of interdisciplinary connection—just what this conference is posed to help with!