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Catia Faria

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Catia Faria
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Porto, Portugal[1]
Education
Education
ThesisAnimal Ethics Goes Wild: The Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2016)
Paula Casal, Oscar Horta, Joao Cardoso Rosas
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Analytic philosophy
Institutions
LanguageEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese
Main interests
Notable works
Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2022)
Notable ideas
Xenozoopolis

Catia Faria (born 1980)[1] is a Portuguese moral philosopher and activist for animal rights and feminism. She is assistant professor in applied ethics at the Complutense University of Madrid and a board member of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics.[2][3] Her work is in normative ethics and applied ethics, with a focus on the moral consideration of non-human animals.[3] Her first book, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature, was published in 2022.[4]

Education

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Faria earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Porto, an M.A. in cognitive sciences from the University of Barcelona, and a PhD in moral philosophy from Pompeu Fabra University.[5] Her doctoral thesis, Animal Ethics Goes Wild: The Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature, defended human assistance to non-human animals in the wild as a response to wild animal suffering. It was examined by Genoveva Martí, Alasdair Cochrane, and Jeff McMahan, and supervised by Paula Casal, Oscar Horta, and Joao Cardoso Rosas.[6]

Career

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Faria is assistant professor in applied ethics at the Complutense University of Madrid. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the University of Minho, a lecturer in ethics and sustainability at Pompeu Fabra University, and a visiting researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.[2][5][7]

In 2015, Faria and Eze Paez co-edited a double volume of the journal Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature.[8] She has written for the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics blog;[9] Nietzsche's Horse, the animal issues blog of the Spanish online newspaper elDiario.es;[10] and Pikara Magazine.[11] In 2020, Faria and Oscar Horta co-authored a chapter on welfare biology in The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics.[12] Her first book, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature, was published in 2022.[4]

Philosophy

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Faria has criticised environmentalist arguments for leaving nature alone. She argues that environmentalists often support intervention in nature for anthropocentric reasons or for environmental aims, and has argued that animal ethics and environmental ethics are incompatible because they assign different moral weight to non-human animals.[13][14] She argues that rejection of speciesism requires moral consideration for the interests and well-being of sentient non-human animals in the wild, and supports efforts to reduce harms that they experience from natural causes.[13]

Faria argues that intersectional feminism and antispeciesism are both needed in work for equality and justice. She developed the concept of "xenozoopolis", a hybrid of xenofeminism and antispeciesism, which she describes as calling for the abolition of the "human-alien binary".[15][16] She has also argued that a feminist approach to antispeciesism entails a commitment to veganism.[17]

Faria has criticised ecofeminism for treating patriarchal culture as the main source of harm to non-human animals in the wild and conservation as the main way to help them. She argues that this view depends on an inaccurate account of nature as beneficial for non-human animals, and that suffering is common among such animals. She rejects forms of intervention in nature such as hunting, but argues that non-intervention does not follow from that rejection and that humans should work to help non-human animals in the wild.[17]

Selected publications

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Catia Faria i Eze Páez: "l'espècie no determina si un individu pot ser danyat o beneficiat"" [Catia Faria and Eze Páez: "the species does not determine whether an individual can be harmed or benefited"]. Ara Balears (in Catalan). 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  2. ^ a b "Catia Faria". Academia.edu.
  3. ^ a b "Catia Faria". UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  4. ^ a b "Animal Ethics in the Wild". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  5. ^ a b Faria, Catia. "Short CV" (PDF). EPS (Ethics, Politics & Society). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  6. ^ "First dissertation on helping animals in the wild". UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics. 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  7. ^ "Past Students". The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Archived from the original on 2020-12-15. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  8. ^ "Academic work on wild animal suffering edited by Animal Ethics activists". Animal Ethics. 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  9. ^ Faria, Catia (2014-12-21). "Should we intervene in nature to help animals?". Practical Ethics blog. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  10. ^ "Catia Faria". elDiario.es. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  11. ^ "Catia Faria, autora en pikara magazine" [Catia Faria, author at pikara magazine]. Pikara Magazine (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  12. ^ "Catia Faria and Oscar Horta contribute to The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics: With the chapter "Welfare Biology"". UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics. 2020-12-20. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  13. ^ a b Faria, Catia; Paez, Eze (2015-05-11). "Animals in Need: the Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature". Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. 3 (1): 7–13. ISSN 2280-9643.
  14. ^ Faria, Catia; Paez, Eze (2019-02-17). "It's Splitsville: Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics Are Incompatible". American Behavioral Scientist. 63 (8): 1047–1060. doi:10.1177/0002764219830467. S2CID 150854523.
  15. ^ Faria, Catia (2021-01-03). "Xenozoopolis: Unnatural Solidarity". Medium. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  16. ^ "Feminism and antispeciesism, a talk by philosopher Catia Faria". Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  17. ^ a b Ruiz Carreras, María (2016-11-04). "'La lucha por la igualdad y la justicia es necesariamente feminista y antiespecista'" ['The fight for equality and justice is necessarily feminist and antispeciesist']. Diagonal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-02-13.

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