Catia Faria | |
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Born | 1980 (age 43–44) |
Education |
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Notable work | Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2022) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
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Thesis | Animal Ethics Goes Wild: The Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2016) |
Doctoral advisors | Paula Casal, Oscar Horta, Joao Cardoso Rosas |
Language | English, Spanish, Portuguese |
Main interests | |
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,[2] and is a board member of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics.[3] Faria specialises in normative and applied ethics, especially focusing on how they apply to the moral consideration of non-human animals.[3] In 2022, she published her first book, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature.[4]