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:
