Past Programs
The SSEA has held annual workshops on animal ethics since its founding in 1979. For many years, these workshops were group sessions associated with the divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association, and such sessions still occur. Additionally, the SSEA now holds an online colloquium series and, in non-pandemic years, an event that occurs just prior to the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Spring 2023 Online Colloquium Series
January 12 @ 1 Eastern: Catia Faria (Complutense University of Madrid)
February 16 @ 1 Eastern: Yiran Hua (Brown University)
March 16 @ 1 Eastern: Josh Mund (Tulane University)
April 13 @ 1 Eastern: François Jaquet (Université de Strasbourg)
May 18 @ 1 Eastern: Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert (University of Oxford)
Fall 2022 Online Colloquium Series
September 8 @ 1 Eastern: Dustin Crummett (University of Washington Tacoma)
October 13 @ 1 Eastern: Leonard Dung (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
November 10 @ 1 Eastern: Joel Joseph (University of St Andrews)
December 15 @ 1 Eastern: Gary O’Brien (University of Oxford)
Spring 2022 Online Colloquium Series
"The Puppy Adoption Fallacy"
Sara Rachel Chant, Purdue University
January 13, 2022
"Defending Animals, Disappointing People: A Relational, Ecofeminist Approach to Recreational Hunting"
Karen Emmerman, University of Washington
February 16, 2022
"Welfare, Affect, and Moral Standing"
Irina Mikhalevich, Rochester Institute of Technology
March 17, 2022
"Two Types of Planning: A proposal to reconcile opposing views in the animal mental time travel debate"
Felicitas Selter, Hannover Medical School
April 11, 2022
2022 Pacific APA Group Session: Interspecies Welfare Comparisons
Panelists: Michael Carrick, University of Rochester
Nicolas Delon, University College Florida
Eden Lin, The Ohio State University
Irina Mikhalevich, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chair: Bob Fischer, Texas State University
2021 Online Colloquium Series
"Modeling Uncertainty in Animal Welfare and Ethics"
Jim Davies, Carleton University
January 14, 2021
On a Non-Causal Theory of Complicity
Corey Katz, Georgian Court University
February 19, 2021
"Should We Protect Animals from Hate Speech?"
Josh Milburn, University of Sheffield
March 23, 2021
"Uncertainty and Inductive Risk in Research with Nonhuman Animals."
Syd Johnson, Upstate Medical University
April 14, 2021
On the Problem of Interspecies Welfare Comparisons
Heather Browning, London School of Economics
May 17, 2021
On Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era
Sarat Colling, Independent Scholar
June 15, 2021
"Political Liberalism and Animal Ethics"
Federico Zuolo, University of Genova
July 15, 2021
"Catch 22 on Animal Farm: A Paradox About the Badness of Death for Animals"
Travis Timmerman, Seton Hall University
August 19, 2021
"Wild Animal Population Ethics"
Oscar Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
September 15, 2021
"Is My Mouse Depressed? Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Depression"
Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, SUNY
October 8, 2021
"Status Quo Bias and the Ethics of Eating”
Mylan Engel, Northern Illinois University
November 12, 2021
"Partiality and Animal Companions"
Dustin Sigsbee, University of South Carolina
December 17, 2021
2021 Pacific APA Group Session: Animals and the Law
“A Path from Animal Ethics to Animal Law”
Priscilla Rader Culp, Independent Scholar
“How Animals Suffer from the Law’s Ignorance of Philosophy”
Kathy Hessler, Lewis & Clark College
“Teaching Philosophy and Helping Students Advocate for Animals: A How To Guide”
Ramona Ilea, Pacific University
2020 Online Colloquium Series
"From Arguments to Action: A Bridge for Ethical Vegetarianism"
Josh May, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
September 16, 2020
"Owl vs. Owl: Toward Interspecies Repair in the Old-Growth Forest"
Ben Almassi, Governors State University
October 16, 2020
"The Concept of Death and the Ethics of Killing Animals"
Susana Monsó, Messerli Research Institute
November 16, 2020
2020 Annual Pre-RoME Workshop
“Human Identity, Animal Identity, and Reflective Endorsement”
Rachel Robison-Greene, Utah State University
Comments from Danny Weltman, Ashoka University
“What Do Animals Deserve?”
Stephen Kershnar, SUNY Fredonia
Comments from Julia Mosquera, Institute for Futures Studies
“(Cat)egory Mistake: The Invalidity and Ethical Consequences of Feline
Behavior Assessments”
Derek Halm, Utah State University
Comments from Angela Martin, University of Basel
“Contractualism and the Scope of Morality”
Alisabeth Ayars, Princeton University
Comments from Corey Katz, Georgian Court University
“The Nature of Activism and the Value of Ruining Someone’s Dinner”
David Killoren, Dianoia Institute / Richard Rowland, University of Leeds
Comments from Sofia Huerter, University of Washington
2019 Annual Pre-RoME Workshop
“Despicable Meat”
David Killoren, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, ACU, Melbourne
Comments from: Adam Lerner, Center for Bioethics, NYU
“Disabling Animals: Is Disability What’s Wrong with Domestication?”
Sophia Huerter, University of Washington
Comments from: Lauren Kim, Queens University
“Animal Marginal Agency: A Case for Borderline Animal Morality”
Paul Carron, Baylor University
Comments from: Tyler John, Rutgers University
“Do I Really Have to Say “Feed Two Birds with One Scone”? Prejudicial Speech and Anti-Animal Language”
Jasmine Gunkel, University of Southern California
Comments from: Rachel Robison-Greene, Utah State University
“Animal Rescue: Civil Disobedience or Subrevolution?”
Daniel Weltman, Ashoka University
Comments from: Eze Paez, University of Minho
“Temperance, Meat-Eating, and Virtue Ethics”
Raja Halwani, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Comments from: A. G. Holdier, University of Arkansas
2018 Annual Pre-RoME Workshop
“Self-Awareness in Animals”
David DeGrazia, George Washington University
Comments from Paul Carron, Baylor University
“Prospects for an Animal-Friendly Business Ethics”
Brian Berkey, Harvard University
Comments from Trevor Hedberg, University of South Florida
“Meaningful Lives, Complicity and Collective Harms”
Nicolas Delon, New College of Florida
Comments from Sofia Huerter, University of Washington
“Speciesism and Acceptable Lives”
Adam Lerner and Johann Frick, Princeton University
Comments from Jasmine Gunkel, USC
Keynote: Julia Driver, Washington University in St. Louis
2017 Annual Pre-RoME Workshop
“Nonhuman Animals and the Right to Privacy”
Angie Pepper, Université de Montréal
Comments from Bianka Takaoka, Cornell University
“Cost-Effectiveness in Animal Health: An Ethical Analysis”
Govind Persad, Johns Hopkins University
Comments from Jeff Johnson, St. Catherine University
“Prioritizing Nonhuman Animals in Our Unjust World”
Cheryl Abbate, University of Colorado, Boulder
Comments from Mark Budolfson, University of Vermont
“Neuroscience and the Evaluation of Suffering”
Adam Shriver, University of British Columbia
Comments from Paul Carron, Baylor University
“Animal Rights Pacifism”
Blake Hereth, University of Washington
Comments from Alex Howe, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Moral Status: Reflections and a Not-Quite-Complete Account”
David DeGrazia, George Washington University
2017 Pacific APA: Effective Animal Advocacy
Session 1
“Assisting Animals: An Experimental Exploration”
Nicolas Delon (New York University)
“Should Effective Altruists Appeal to Empathy?”
Ramona Ilea (Pacific University)
“The Intersection of Applied Ethics, Animal Welfare, and Effective Altruism”
Eric Hebroso (Independent Scholar)
Session 2
“Effective Altruism and Transformative Experience”
Jeff Sebo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Next Up: The Nearly Adopters”
Caleb Dewey (York University)
Shubhreet Kaur (Independent Scholar)
“The Case for Donating to Effective Animal Charities”
Toni Adleberg (Independent Scholar)
2016 Pacific APA
"A Relational and Political Approach to Interspecies Justice in an Unjust World"
Christiane Bailey (Université de Montréal)
"Research in Cold Blood"
Stephen F. Eisenman (Northwestern University)
"Is Anti-Speciesism a Form of Exterminism?"
Robert C. Jones (California State University, Chico)
"The Animal of Bad Faith: Speciesism as an Existential Project"
John Sanbonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
"'O for the Voices of Animals': Learning to Listen"
Zipporah Weisberg (Queens University at Kingston)
2016 Central APA
Author Meets Respondents: The Moral Equality of Humans and Animals
Mark Bernstein (Purdue University)
Respondents:
Elizabeth Foreman (Missouri State University)
John Hernandez (Palo Alto College)
Mylan Engel (Northen Illinois University)
2015 Pacific APA
Authors-Meet-Respondents: The Ethics of Captivity
Authors:
“Coercion and Captivity”
Lisa Rivera (University of Massachusetts Boston)
“Dignity, Captivity, and an Ethics of Sight”
Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)
“The Confinement of Animals Used in Laboratory Research: Conceptual and Ethical Issues”
Robert Streiffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Respondents:
Robert Farley (Northern Illinois University)
Robert C. Jones (California State University, Chico)
Jeff Sebo (National Institutes of Health)
2013 – APA Pacific Division 87th Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Topic: Jeremy Garrett, ed., The Ethics of Animal Research
Chair: Jeremy Garrett, Children's Mercy Bioethics Center and University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Animal Experimentation, Marginal Cases, and the Significance of Suffering"
Alastair Norcross, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Created Dependencies: A Feminist Approach to Our Obligations to Non-human Animal Research Subjects"
Christina M. Bellon, California State University, Sacramento
"The Commonsense Case Against Animal Experimentation"
Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
"The Ethics of Animal Research: An Overview"
Jeremy Garrett, Children's Mercy Bioethics Center and University of Missouri, Kansas City
Commentator: Kathie Jenni, University of Redlands
2007 – APA Central Division 104th Annual Meeting, Baltimore
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
"Moral Rights and Human Culture"
Lisa Bortolotti, University of Birmingham
Commentators: Bill Martin, DePaul University; Peter Celello, Bowling Green State University
"A Construction of the Predator Problem"
Anne M. Baril, University of Arizona
Commentators: Kathie Jenni, University of Redlands; James A. Moran, Daemen College
2006
APA Eastern Division 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
"Indirect Duty Theories: Even if They're Right, They're Wrong"
Robert Bass, Coastal Carolina University
Commentators: Rhiannon Boyd, John Tyler Community College; Brian G. Henning, Mount St. Mary's University
"Vice, Virtue, and Vivisection"
Garret Merriam, Rice University
Commentators: Marc R. Fellenz, Suffolk County Community College; Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Purdue University
APA Central Division 103rd Annual Meeting, Chicago
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
"Since Vegetable Farming Kills Sentient Beings, What Is a Utilitarian to Eat?"
Bart Gruzalski, Pacific Center for Sustainable Living
Commentators: Gaverick Matheny, Dept. of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Maryland; Henry R. West, Macalester College; Alastair Norcross, Rice University
2005
APA Eastern Division 102nd Annual Meeting, New York
Chair: Rhiannon Boyd, John Tyler Community College
"A Critique of Warren's Weak Animal Rights Views"
Speaker: Aaron Simmons, Bowling Green State University
Commentators: Robert Bass, University of North Florida; Benjamin Hale, University of Colorado-Boulder
"Confessions of a Reluctant Carnivore: A Qualified Defense of Meat Eating"
Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Purdue University
Commentator: Jeremy Garrett, Rice University
APA Central Division 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
"Moral Partiality and Animal Experimentation"
Jeremy Garrett, Rice University
Commentators: Dave Conception, Ball State University; Monica L. Gerrek, University of Kansas
"Animals As Subjects in Kant's Kingdom of Ends”
Heather M. Fieldhouse, Michigan State University
Commentators: William O. Stephens, Creighton University; Frank Scott McElreath, Peace College
"Emmanuel Levinas's 'Ethics of Poverty' and the Animal Other"
Donald L. Turner, Austin Peay State University
Commentator: Matthew Calarco, Sweet Briar College
APA Pacific Division 79th Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Chair: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
"Why Environmental Virtue Ethics Fails to Justify Hunting"
Robert P. Lovering, American University
Commentator: Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University
"Another Look into 'The Moral Status of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy"
Monica L. Gerrek, Bowling Green State University
Commentator: Dale E. Miller, Old Dominion University
"Do Animals Employ Concepts? A Reflection on the Controversy"
Gary Steiner, Bucknell University
Commentator: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
2004
APA Central Division 101st Annual Meeting, Chicago
Topic: Personhood, Species, and Moral Considerability
Chair: Dave Concepcion, Ball State University
"Modified Speciesism: A Brief Look into the Real Problem with Our Treatment of Animals"
Monica L. Gerrek, University of Kansas
Commentator: Alastair Norcross, Rice University
Chair: Scott McElreath, Peace College
"Scaling the Utilitarian Argument for Moral Vegetarianism"
Speaker: Jeremy Garrett, Rice University
Commentator: Mylan Engel, Jr., Northern Illinois University
Chair: William McCarthy, Northern Illinois University
"Do Animals Employ Concepts? The Roots of the Controversy in Aristotle"
Gary Steiner, Bucknell University
Commentator: Scott McElreath, Peace College
APA Pacific Division 78th Annual Meeting, Pasadena
Chair: Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
"Biocentric Ethics and Animal Prosperity"
A. Anchustegui, Boise State University
Commentator: William McCarthy, Northern Illinois University
Chair: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Seattle University
"Virtue Ethics and the Moral Significance of Animals"
Garret Merriam, Rice University
Commentator: Matt Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Chair: William McCarthy, Northern Illinois University
"Gorilla Minds"
Jane Duran, University of California-Santa Barbara
Commentator: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Seattle University
2003 – APA Eastern Division 100th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Topic: Personhood, Species, and Moral Considerability
Chair: Grace Clement, Salisbury University
"Stoic Anthropocentrism and the Moral Status of Animals"
Gary Steiner, Bucknell University
Commentator: Dan Dombrowski, Seattle University
Chair: David Johnson, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
"On the Question of Personhood beyond Homo sapiens"
David DeGrazia, George Washington University
Commentator: Nathan Nobis, University of Rochester
Chair: Melissa Clarke, James Madison University
"The Social Construction of Species and the Moral Indefensibility of Speciesism"
Daniel Elstein, Haverford College
Commentator: Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University
2002
APA Eastern Division 99th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
Session I Chair: Scott McElreath
"Animals as Property"
Matt Zwolinski
Commentator: Benjamin S. Hale
"Carl Cohen's 'Kind' Argument FOR Animal Rights and AGAINST Human Rights"
Nathan Nobis
Commentator: Melissa Clarke
Session II Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow
"The Invisibility of Evil: Moral Progress and the 'Animal Holocaust’"
Timothy M. Costelloe
Comments: Grace Clement
"Value Incrementalism, Perfectionism and Sentient Nonhumans"
David K. Johnson and Matthew R. Silliman
Comments: Mylan Engel, Jr.
APA Central Division 99th Annual Meeting, Chicago
Session I Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"Monkey See: The Phenomenology and Fiction of Language as Aesthetics and Mimicry"
H. Peter Steeves, DePaul University
"Invertebrates, Sentience, and the Ethical Implications"
Bart Gruzalski, Pacific Center for Sustainable Living
Commentators: John Rowan, Purdue University, Calumet; Rob Loftis, Auburn University
Session II Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"The Gendered Basis of Animal Exploitation"
Brian Luke, Ohio State University
"Carnivorism is a System"
F. Scott McElreath, Peace College
2001
APA Eastern Division 98th Annual Meeting, Atlanta
Session I Topic: Philosophers and Vegetarianism
Chair: Grace Clement
"Porphyry on Why Philosophers Should be Vegetarians"
Nicholas Hunt-Bull
Comments: David Concepcion
"A Broad-based Moral Case Against Consuming Meat from Factory Farms"
David DeGrazia
Comments: Melissa Clarke
Session II Topic: Animal Others, Continental Approaches
Chair: H. Peter Steeves
Panelists: H. Peter Steeves and others
APA Central Division 99th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis
Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"Vegetarianism and the Limits of Philosophy”
Bill Martin, DePaul University
Commentator: David Detmer, Purdue University
"Thought without Talk?"
Seetha Burtner, Purdue University
Commentator: H. Peter Steeves, DePaul University
APA Pacific Division 75th Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Chair: Ralph Acampora, Hofstra University
"Are Animals Moral Agents: Revising Our Views Of Animals And Of Morality."
Grace Clement, Salisbury State University
Commentator: David Corner, CSU Sacramento
"Vegetarianism and Virtue: Does Consequentialism Demand Too Little?"
Nathan Nobis, University of Rochester
Commentator: Ted Stolze, CSU Hayward
2000
APA Eastern Division 97th Annual Meeting, New York
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Ontology and Moral Consideration for Sentient Beings"
Melissa Clarke
Commentator: Nancy Goldberg
"Nonegalitarian Humane Moralism, or How to Have Your Speciesism and Eat Your Tofu, Too"
Mylan Engel, Jr.
Commentator: Judith A. Boss
"Human Knowledge as Animal Knowledge"
Andrew Fenton
Commentator: Timothy Menta
APA Pacific Division 74th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque
Chair: Joseph Lynch, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
"Ontology and Moral Consideration for Sentient Beings"
Melissa Clarke, College of St. Rose
"Dennett Does Animals"
Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"The Origin of Speciesism”
David K. Johnson and Matthew R. Silliman, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
1999
APA Eastern Division 96th Annual Meeting, Boston
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Radical Asymmetrical Reciprocity: Human and Non-human Interaction"
Benjamin S. Hale
Commentator: Nathan Nobis
"Taking Humanism Seriously: 'Obligatory' Anthropocentrism"
David Sztybel
Commentator: Evelyn B. Pluhar
APA Central Division 97th Annual Meeting, New Orleans
Chair: Nancy Goldberg Wilks, Rice University
"Marginalizing the Argument from Marginal Cases"
Grace Clement, Salisbury State University
Commentator: David Boonin, University of Colorado
"Schopenhauer, Metaphysics, and Animal Liberation"
Timothy Menta, Saint Francis College, Pennsylvania
Commentator: Gary Varner, Texas A&M University
1998
APA Eastern Division 95th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Session I Topic: The Everyday Treatment of Animals
Chair: Judy Boss
"Why YOU are Committed to the Immorality of Eating Animals"
Mylan Engel, Jr.
Commentator: Jennifer Welchman
"Killing With Kindness: An Inquiry into the Routinized Destruction of Companion Animals"
Lee Fennell
Commentator: Evelyn B. Pluhar
Session II Topic: Killing Animals, Killing Fetuses
Chair: Jane Duran
"The Politics of Animal Sacrifice: Patriarchy and Dominionism"
Brian Luke
Commentator: Ronnie Hawkins
"The Abortion Issue: A Non-anthropocentric Perspective"
Speaker: Laura Westra
Commentator: Harlan B. Miller
APA Central Division 96th Annual Meeting, Chicago
Topic: Caring and Personhood
Chair: John R. Rowan, Purdue University, Calumet
"The Ethic of Care and the Problem of Wild Animals"
Grace Clement, Salisbury State University
Commentator: Mane Hajdin, Santa Clara University
"Masks, Androids, and Primates: The Evolution of the Concept 'Person"'
William O. Stephens, Creighton University
Commentator: Kent Baldner, Western Michigan University
APA Pacific Division 72nd Annual Meeting, Los Angeles
Title: Breaking Barriers
Chair: Joseph J. Lynch, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
"The Phenomenology of Bigfoot"
H. Peter Steeves, CSU, Fresno
Commentator: Nina Rosenstand, San Diego State University
1997
APA Eastern Division 94th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Robbing PETA to Spay Paul: Do Animal Rights Include Reproductive Rights?"
David Boonin-Vail
Commentator: Evelyn B. Pluhar
"Against Rolston's Defense of Eating Animals"
John M. Mizzoni
Commentator: Grace Clement
APA Central Division 95th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh
Topic: "Thinking about Animals"
Panelist/Chair: Ronnie Hawkins, University of Central Florida
"Darwin's Doubts and the Problem Animal Pain"
Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
"Darwin and DeWaal"
Sherrie Lyons, Daemen College
"Frans DeWaal's Moral Tales"
James Moran, Daemen College
Panelist: Beth A. Dixon, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
1996
APA Eastern Division 93rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta
Session I Chair: Beth A. Dixon
"Cognitive Ethology and Functional-Genetic Explanations of Animal Behavior"
Anderson Brown
Commentator: David Boonin-Vail
"Epictetus on Animalitarianism"
William Stephens
Commentator: Alan Schwerin
Session II Chair: William O. Stephens
"Animal Rights and Animal Welfare: Relative Moral Guidance"
Speaker: Gary Francione
Commentator: Mane Hajdin
"Moral Standing, Inherent Value, and The Quality of Life: On the Choice Between Animals and Unfortunate Humans"
R. G. Frey
Commentator: David DeGrazia
APA Central Division 94th Annual Meeting, Chicago
Chair: Thomas W. Simon, Miyazaki International College, Japan
"Animal Emotion"
Beth A. Dixon, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Commentator: Mary Carman Rose, Goucher College
"Rawls and Animals"
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Seattle University
Commentator: Alan E. Fuchs, College of William and Mary
APA Pacific Division 70th Annual Meeting, Seattle
Session I Topic: Animal Minds and Human Thought
Chair: Steve F. Sapontzis, CSU, Hayward
"Wittgenstein and Animal Minds"
Joseph J. Lynch, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Commentator: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"Human vs. Nonhuman: Binary Opposition as an Ordering Principle of Western Human Thought"
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, University of Oregon
Commentator: Timothy Menta, St. Francis College
Session II Topic: Egalitarianism
Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russon, Purdue University
"Multi-Factor Egalitarianism"
Speaker: Gary Comstock, Iowa State University
Commentator: Steve F. Sapontzis, CSU, Hayward
1995
APA Eastern Division 92nd Annual Meeting, New York
Session I Topic: Justifying Animal Research
Chair: Henry Kreuzman
"Nonhuman Animal Rights: An Attempt at a Rapprochement Between Utilitarian and Inherent Value Views"
Alan C. Clune
Commentator: Gary Varner
"The Origin of Speciesism"
Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks
Commentator: Mary Carman Rose
Session II Topic: The Relevance of Personhood
Chair: Ronnie Hawkins
"Are Great Apes and Dolphins Persons?"
David DeGrazia
Commentator: Harlan Miller
APA Central Division 93rd Annual Meeting, Chicago
Session I Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"Vegetarianism and Taking Animal Rights Seriously"
Nicholas Dixon, Alma College
Commentator: Alex Wellington, York University, Canada
"My Pet, My Property"
Amy Knisley, SUNY, Fredonia
Commentator: Gary E. Varner, Texas A&M University
Group Meeting Panel Chair: Sheri Katz, Spring Hill College
William O. Stephens, Creighton University
Commentator: Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University
APA Pacific Division 69th Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Session I Topic: The Caring and Training of Animals
Chair: Gary Comstock, Iowa State University
"What Do Animals Care About?"
Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
Commentator: William Stephens, Creighton University
"The Moral Status of Animal Training"
Beth Dixon, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Commentator: Daniel Dombrowski, Seattle University
Session II Topic: Comparing the Value of Human and Nonhuman Lives: How Are We To Do It, And Where Will It Lead Us?
Chair: Joseph Lynch, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Panelist: Raymond G. Frey, Bowling Green State University
Panelist: Steve F. Sapontzis, California State University, Hayward
Panelist: Lance K. Stell, Davidson College
Panelist: Gary Franclone, Law School, Rutgers University
1994
APA Eastern Division 91st Annual Meeting, Boston
Session I Topic: Animal Phenomenology and Moral Philosophy: Ethics of Cross-Species Community and Corporeality
Chair: Steve F. Sapontzis
"The Problematic Situation of Post Humanism and the Task of Recreating a Symphysical Ethos"
Ralph R. Acampora
Commentator: Kenneth Shapiro
"Deep Community: Phenomenology's Disclosure of the Common Good”
H. Peter Steeves
Commentator: Carleton Dallery
Session II Topic: Comparing the Value of Human and Nonhuman Lives: How are We to Do it, and Where Will it Lead Us?
Chair: Alex Wellington
Panelist: R. G. Frey
Panelist: Steve F. Sapontzis
Session III Topic: Animals, Evil, Theodicy
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Harrison and Hick on God and Animal Pain"
Joseph J. Lynch
Commentator: Mary Carman Rose
"Can Animals Be Evil?: Kekes' Character-Morality, the Hard Reaction to Evil, and Animals"
Robert Rosenfeld
Commentator: Beth A. Dixon
APA Central Division 92nd Annual Meeting, Kansas City
Session I Topic: The Import for SSEA of Philosophic Perspectives on the Fact/Value Dictionary
Chair/ Commentator: Mary Carman Rose, Goucher College
"Transcendental Idealism and the Fact/Value Dichotomy”
Kent Baldner, Western Michigan University
Session II Panel Discussion: The Philosopher and Animal Rights and Welfare
Chair: Curtis Hancock, Rockhurst College
Panelist: Raymond G. Frey, Bowling Green State University
Panelist: Diane Legomsky, The Socratic Project, DePere, Wisconsin
Panelist: Mary Carman Rose, Goucher College
APA Pacific Division 68th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles
Topic: The Great Ape Project
Chair: Steve Sapontzis, CSU, Hayward
"Chimpanzees' Use of Sign Language"
Roger & Deborah Fouts, Central Washington University
"Common Sense, Cognitive Ethology, and Evolution”
Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado
"Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality"
Dale Jamieson, University of Colorado
"Persons - Pro and Con"
Steve Sapontzis, CSU, Hayward
1993
APA Eastern Division 90th Annual Meeting, Atlanta
Session I Topic: Carruthers on Animals
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Contractarianism Gone Wild: Carruthers and the Moral Status of Animals"
Speaker: David Boonin-Vail
Commentator: William Robinson
"Animal Pain, A Recent Cartesian Revival"
Speaker: Joseph J. Lynch
Commentator: Jane Duran
Session II Topic: The Great Ape Project
Chair: Evelyn B. Pluhar
Panelist: H. Lyn Miles
Panelist: Harlan B. Miller
Panelist: Robert Mitchell
Panelist: Tom Regan
APA Central Division 91st Annual Meeting, Chicago
Session I Topic: Forbearance and/or Privilege in Respect to Animals
Moderator: Frank Morelli, University of Phoenix
Panelist: Judith A. Barad, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Panelist: Diane Legomsky, St. Norbert College
Panelist: Mary Carman Rose, Emeritus, Goucher College
Session II Chair: Mary Carman Rose, Emeritus, Goucher College
"On Misunderstanding Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Its Implications for Animals: Rollin's Reading and Reply"
David DeGrazia, George Washington University
Commentator: R.G. Frey, Bowling Green State University
1992
APA Eastern Division 89th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Session I Topic: Can Heidegger Help the Animals?
Chair: Laura Westra
"Heidegger'sAnti-Anthropocentricism"
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Commentator: Michael E. Zimmerman
"Heidegger, Ethics and Animals"
Bruce V. Foltz
Commentator: Jean N. Kuebler
Session II Topic: Parsimony and Pain
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Parsimony, Evolution and Animal Pain"
Robert P. Rosenfeld
Commentator: David Boonin-Vail
APA Central Division 90th Annual Meeting, Louisville
Topic: Virtue, Ethics and Animals
Chair: Stephen Toulmin, Northwestern University
"Compassion for Animals"
Nancy E. Snow, Marquette University
Commentator: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
"Are Animals Virtuous?"
Jack Weir, Morehead State University
Commentator: Edward R. Johnson, University of New Orleans
APA Pacific Division 66th Annual Meeting, Portland
Topic: Animals: Too Far Out or In Too Deep
Chair: Gary Comstock, Iowa State University
"Animals in the Original Position"
Speaker: Lilly-Marlene Russon, Purdue University
Commentator: Steve F. Sapontzis, CSU, Hayward
"Animals, Arrogance, and Unfathomably Deep Ecology"
Tal Scriven, Cal Poly State University
Commentator: Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University
1991
APA Eastern Division 88th Annual Meeting, New York
Session I Topic: Animals, Caring, and the Status of Infants
Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow
"Justice, Caring, and Animal Liberation"
Brian Luke
Commentator: Timothy Menta
"Animal Rights Theory and the Diminishment of Infants"
Stephen G. Post
Commentator: Harlan B. Miller
Session II
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Should We Genetically Engineer Hogs?"
Gary Comstock
Chair: David J. Detmer
"Moral Issues Associated with Bioengineered Species-Stewardship, Abuse, and Sustainability"
Natalie Dandekar and Edward Zlotkowski
Commentator: Laura Westra
APA Pacific Division 65th Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Topic: Evolution, Nature and Domestication
Chair: Kathleen Squadrito, Purdue U.-Fort Wayne
“The Possibility of an Evolutionary Semantics"
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, University of Oregon
Commentator: Michael Bishop, Iowa State University
"Autonomy and the Idea of Nature"
Roger Paden, George Mason University
Commentator: Peter Miller, University of Winnipeg
"Welcoming Animals Into The Domestic Circle"
Katherine Grier, University of Utah
Commentator: Mark W. Barber, St. Mary's College-Minnesota
1990
APA Eastern Division 87th Annual Meeting, Boston
Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow
"Jewish Law, Tradition, and Animal Rights: Is There a Usable Paradigm for the Movement?”
Roberta Kalechofsky
Commentator: Eric Katz
"The Joy of Killing"
Evelyn B. Pluhar
Commentator: Daniel A. Dombrowski
APA Central Division 88th Annual Meeting, New Orleans
Session I Chair: Diane Legomsky-Abel, St. Norbert College
“On Our Moral Obligations to the Environment”
Kent Baldner, Eastern Illinois University
"Other-than-Human Aspects of Nature and the Future of a Profession"
Mary Carman Rose, Goucher College
Session II Chair: Mary Carman Rose, Goucher College
"Stewardship: Whose Creation Is It, Anyway?"
Judith Barad, Indiana State University
"Approaches to the Valuation of Animals: Some Prelininary Reflections”
Richard Klonoski, University of Scranton
APA Pacific Division 64th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles
Session I Topic: Animal Rights, Theoretical and Practical
Chair: Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
"The Distinction Between Equality in Moral Status and Deserving Equal Consideration"
Speaker: David DeGrazia, George Washington University
Commentator: Kathy Squadrito, Purdue University, Ft. Wayne
"Liberation of Animals As A Response To Structural Violence"
Amy Liszt, Mobilization for Animals
Commentator: Susan Finsen, CSU, San Bernardino
Session II Topic: Autonomy and the Moral Status of Animals
Chair: James L. Nelson, Michigan State University
"The Moral Irrelevance of Autonomy”
Presenter: Gary Comstock, Iowa State University
Commentators: R.G. Frey, Bowling Green State University; Carl Cohen, University of Michigan; S.F. Sapontzis, CSU, Hayward
"Persons and History: A Question of Method in Jaspers, Sartre, and Foucault"
Raymond Langley, Manhattanville
Commentator: J.M. Beil Waugh, University of South Florida
1989
APA Central Division 87th Annual Meeting, Chicago
Session I Chair: Stephen Wykstra, Calvin College
"Ethical Similarities in Human and Animal Social Structures"
William J. Ellos, Loyola University of Chicago
"Nothing of the Origin and Destiny of Cats: The Remainder of Logos"
John M. Rose, Goucher College
"Treating Animals Naturally”
Peter S. Wenz, Sangamon State University
Session II Chair: Mary Carman Rose, Goucher College
"Realism and Respect"
Kent Baldner, Eastern Illinois University
"Whose Creation Is It, Anyway?"
Judith Barad, Indiana State University
"Is Nature Ever Unaesthetic?"
Earle J. Coleman, Virginia Commonwealth University
APA Eastern Division 86th Annual Meeting, Atlanta
Session I Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Domesticated and Then Some"
Jane Duran
Commentator: Gary E. Varner
"Unnecessary Pain, Nutrition, and Vegetarianism"
Jack Weir
Commentator: Steve F. Sapontis
Session II Chair: Harlan B. Miller
"Feminist Reflections in Humans and Other Domestic Animals"
Dianne Romain
Commentator: A. G. Rud
"Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees and the Moderate Position”
Wendell Stephenson
Commentator: Sidney Gendin
APA Pacific Division 63rd Annual Meeting, Oakland
Topic: The Use of Animals in "Exemplary" Medical Research
Chair: Susan Finsen, CSU, San Bernadino
Symposiast: Richard Fenn, CSU, San Bernadino
Symposiast: Lawrence Finsen, University of Redlands
Symposiast: James Nelson, St. Johns University
1988
APA Eastern Division 85th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Chair: Lilly-Marlene Russow
Judith Barad, "Aquinas's Inconsistency on the Nature and Treatment of Animals"
Commentator: Daniel A. Dombrowski
"The Adolescent as Environmental Ethicist"
Julie Dunlap
Commentator: Evelyn B. Pluhar
"Ecology and Animals: Is There a Joint Ethic of Respect?"
Laura Westra
Commentator: Harlan B. Miller
APA Pacific Division 62nd Annual Meeting, Portland
Chair: Ellen Klein, University of Miami
"Utilitarianism, Conscience and Animals"
Tal Scriven, California Polytechnic State University SLO
Commentator: Judith Barad, Indiana State University
"Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Back Together Again"
J. Baird Callicott, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Commentator: Harlan Miller
1987
APA Eastern Division 84th Annual Meeting, New York
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
“Speciesism: A Form of Bigotry or a Justified View?”
Evelyn B. Pluhar
Commentator: Steve F. Sapontzis
“Metaphors of Nature: Pornography and Vivisection”
Roberta Kalechofsky
Commentator: Laura Westra
APA Pacific Division 61st Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Title: Moral Considerability
Chair: Joseph Nelson, St. Joseph's University
Symposiast: Evelyn Pluhar, Pennsylvania State University
Symposiast: Lily-Marlene Russow, Purdue University
Symposiast: R.G. Frey, Bowling Green State University
Symposiast: Peter Singer, Univ. of California, Irvine
1986
APA Eastern Division 83rd Annual Meeting, Boston
Topic: Individuals, Species, Ecosystems
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
“Individuals, Species, Ecosystems: A Hartshornean View”
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Commentator: David N. James
“Making Ends Meet: Reconciling Animal Rights and Environmental Holism”
Susan M. Isen
Commentator: Sidney Gendin
“Should Individual Wild Animals Be Treated?”
Lynne Frink and Mark A. Pokras
Commentator: Eric Katz
APA Pacific Division 60th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles
Title: Ethical Issues in Animal Research
Chair: Lawrence Finsen, University of Redlands
Speaker: Dale Jamieson, Colorado University
Commentator: Charles Blatz, University of Wyoming
Commentator: Steve Sapontzis, California State University/Hayward
1985
APA Pacific Division 59th Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Topic: The Ethics of Animal Research
Chair: Steven F. Sapontzis, California State University/Hayward
Symposiast: Bernard E. Rollin, Colorado State University
Symposiast: Bonnie Steinbock, State University of New York/Albany
1984
APA Eastern Division 81st Annual Meeting, New York
Topic: Predation
Chair: Steve F. Sapontzis
Symposiast: Bernard E. Rollin, Colorado State University
Symposiast: Bonnie Steinbock, State University of New York, Albany
1983
APA Eastern Division 80th Annual Meeting, Boston
Topic: Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
“Is There a Place for Animals in the Moral Consideration of Nature?”
Eric Katz
“Two Conceptions of an Environmental Ethic and Their Implications”
Evelyn B. Pluhar
Discussant: William Aiken
Discussant: Robert W. Loftin
1982
APA Eastern Division 79th Annual Meeting, Baltimore
Topic: The Replacement Argument
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
Speaker: George P. Cave
Speaker: Evelyn B. Pluhar
Speaker: Steve F. Sapontzis
Speaker: James E. White
1981
APA Eastern Division 78th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
Topic: Zoos
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
Speaker: Dale Jamieson
Speaker: Georgette K.
1980
APA Eastern Division 77th Annual Meeting, Boston
Topic: Why Do Species Matter?
Chair: Harlan B. Miller
Speaker: Bruce MacBryde
Speaker: Lilly-Marlene Russow
1979
SSEA First Meeting, New York
“Orang-utans and Language: The ethics of Ugliness”
H. Lyn Miles, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
“Ethical Implications of Human, Machine and Animal Communication”
Thomas Simon, University of Florida