Παρασκευή 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Pain and Animals Saturday 2 March 2013


The workshop will be held on 2 March, and is hosted by Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Our aim is to better understand the similarities and differences in the pain of humans and non-human animals. Specifically, we will explore the role of pain in non-human animals, whether they are capable of the emotion, evaluation, and anticipation often thought to be related to human pain, and in what ways non-human animals suffer.
The day will be organized around research by the following presenters:
Colin Allen (Indiana University: Philosophy and Cognitive Science): "An obituary for the Philosophy of Animal Pain"
Victoria Braithwaite (The Pennsylvania State University: Biology): “Do fish feel pain?”
Trent Dougherty (Baylor University: Philosophy): "Giving Neo-Cartesianism Its Due"
Jacky Reid and Marian Scott (University of Glasgow: Veterinary Medicine, Pain and Welfare Research Group): “Making clinical sense of pain measurement, the how's and why's”
Adam Shriver (Rotman Institute of Philosophy: Neurophilosophy): “"What Can Research on Nonhuman Animals Tell Us About the Unpleasantness of Pain?"
The workshop is part of the larger Pain Project. The Pain Project is an international, interdisciplinary research project focused on relations amongst pain, perception, and emotion, as well as pain in non-human animals. It is part of an overarching research programme, Pain and the Nature of Mind, run by the University of Notre Dame and funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
More information about the project and our research team can be found at:
More information about the Pain and Animals workshop and its presenters can be found at:

Registration fee: £30 staff/£20 students (includes tea/coffee)
To register or for further inquiries please email Jennifer Corns at: