The Effective Animal Advocacy reading group works its way through the syllabus for the Effective Animal Advocacy course taught at NYU by Prof. Jeff Sebo.
This reading group, organized by Tracy Timmins and Kale Ridsdale, is ideal for anyone who is interested in reading deeper on the effective altruist approach to the problem of animal suffering, and discussing some practical and theoretical challenges to the approach.
The syllabus covers:
Applied rationality
Effective altruism
Effective animal advocacy
The EAA movement
Theoretical issues
Practical issues
Animal welfare and rights
Social and institutional change
Legal and political change
Technological and economic change
The limits of animal advocacy
The future of animal advocacy
There’s no need to commit to all sessions and participants can join when a topic is of interest.
Meeting 4 - Sunday July 24th The next meeting is happening on Sunday June 24th and will be discussing readings from Module 4: effective animal advocacy.
We’re also slightly veering off script and including an audio resource on the book Wild Animal Ethics written by adjunct associate professor of philosophy at Queen’s University, Dr. Kyle Johannsen, who will be joining us for the meeting and will speak for 20-25 minutes about his work.
While reading please take note of what you find most surprising or interesting and a question or two that you could share with the group.
Date: Sunday July 24th Time: 2-4pm Location: CSI Annex location, 3rd Floor, meeting room #4. The code to enter the building will be sent to attendees prior-to. Contact: tracy[dot]timmins[at]gmail.com
EAA reading group meeting #4: Effective animal advocacy
The Effective Animal Advocacy reading group works its way through the syllabus for the Effective Animal Advocacy course taught at NYU by Prof. Jeff Sebo.
This reading group, organized by Tracy Timmins and Kale Ridsdale, is ideal for anyone who is interested in reading deeper on the effective altruist approach to the problem of animal suffering, and discussing some practical and theoretical challenges to the approach.
The syllabus covers:
Applied rationality
Effective altruism
Effective animal advocacy
The EAA movement
Theoretical issues
Practical issues
Animal welfare and rights
Social and institutional change
Legal and political change
Technological and economic change
The limits of animal advocacy
The future of animal advocacy
There’s no need to commit to all sessions and participants can join when a topic is of interest.
Meeting 4 - Sunday July 24th
The next meeting is happening on Sunday June 24th and will be discussing readings from Module 4: effective animal advocacy.
We’re also slightly veering off script and including an audio resource on the book Wild Animal Ethics written by adjunct associate professor of philosophy at Queen’s University, Dr. Kyle Johannsen, who will be joining us for the meeting and will speak for 20-25 minutes about his work.
Readings:
Reducing wild animal suffering with Kyle Johannsen, Knowing Animals (podcast)
Ending factory farming as soon as possible, Lewis Bollard
Animals in the wild often suffer a great deal, Persis Eskander
Invertebrate welfare cause profile, Jason Schukraft
Effective animal advocacy resources, Saulius Simcikas
While reading please take note of what you find most surprising or interesting and a question or two that you could share with the group.
Date: Sunday July 24th
Time: 2-4pm
Location: CSI Annex location, 3rd Floor, meeting room #4. The code to enter the building will be sent to attendees prior-to.
Contact: tracy[dot]timmins[at]gmail.com
Link to EAA reading group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/645183286781566/
You can buy Kyle’s book here.