Catia Faria

Catia Faria
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Porto, Portugal[1]
Education
Notable workAnimal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2022)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Institutions
ThesisAnimal Ethics Goes Wild: The Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2016)
Doctoral advisorsPaula Casal, Oscar Horta, Joao Cardoso Rosas
LanguageEnglish, 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]

  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). Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  2. ^ "Catia Faria". Academia.edu.
  3. ^ a b "Catia Faria". Center for Animal Ethics (UPF). Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  4. ^ "Animal Ethics in the Wild". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2022-06-13.