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Portuguese philosopher and activist
Catia Faria
Born 1980 (age 43–44) Education Era
Contemporary philosophy Region
Western philosophy
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
Animal ethics ,
applied ethics ,
environmental ethics ,
feminist ethics ,
normative ethics ,
population ethics ,
speciesism ,
wild animal suffering 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]
Education and career
Faria received a
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the
University of Porto , a
Master 's in Cognitive Sciences from the
University of Barcelona and a
PhD in Moral Philosophy from
Pompeu Fabra University .
[5] Faria's thesis was the first of its kind to defend the idea that humans should help non-human animals in the wild to reduce the problem of
wild animal suffering ; it was assessed by Genoveva Martí,
Alasdair Cochrane and
Jeff McMahan , and supervised by Paula Casal,
Oscar Horta and Joao Cardoso Rosas.
[6]
Faria is assistant professor in Applied Ethics at the
Complutense University of Madrid and formerly worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the
University of Minho ,
[2] as lecturer in Ethics and Sustainability at
Pompeu Fabra University
[5] and was a visiting researcher at the
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics .
[7]
In 2015, Faria co-edited, with Eze Paez, a double volume of the journal
Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism , on the problem of wild animal suffering and ways to reduce it.
[8] She has also authored articles for the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics blog;
[9] Nietzsche's Horse, the Spanish online newspaper
ElDiario.es 's blog on animal issues;
[10] and
Pikara Magazine , the online feminist magazine.
[11] In 2020, Faria co-authored, with Oscar Horta, a chapter on
welfare biology in The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics .
[12] Her first book,
Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature , was published in 2022.
[4]
Philosophy
Faria is critical of the
environmentalist view that nature should be left alone and argues that environmentalists intervene in nature constantly for
anthropocentric benefit and to further their own aims;
[13] she asserts that
animal and environmental ethics are incompatible because of their differing moral consideration of non-human animals.
[14] Faria claims that those who reject
speciesism should give moral consideration to the well-being and interests of non-human animals in the wild, as
sentient beings , and work towards reducing their suffering due to natural causes.
[13]
Faria argues that both
intersectional feminism and antispeciesism are necessary in the fight for equality and justice. She is the originator of the concept of "xenozoopolis"; a hybrid of
xenofeminism and antispeciesism,
[15] which calls for the abolition of the "human-alien binary".
[16] Faria also asserts that a feminist approach towards antispeciesism implies
veganism .
[17]
Faria distances herself from
ecofeminism , which she criticises for its view that the main source of harm for non-human animals in the wild is patriarchal culture and that the best way to help them is through conservation, as this is built on the premise that nature and natural processes are idyllic for non-human animals. Faria argues that this view of nature is inaccurate and that suffering is commonly experienced by these individuals. She asserts that while we should replace the existing male paradigms of intervention in nature, such as
hunting , this does not mean that the solution is non-intervention. She instead contends that we should work towards helping these individuals.
[17]
Selected publications
Faria, Catia (2022).
Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature .
Cambridge University Press .
ISBN
9781009100632 .
Faria, Catia; Horta, Oscar (2020).
"Welfare Biology" . In Fischer, Bob (ed.).
The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics . New York: Routledge.
doi :
10.4324/9781315105840-41 .
ISBN
978-1-351-60235-8 .
OCLC
1114567320 .
S2CID
241043958 .
——; Paez, Eze (2019).
"Why environmentalism cannot beat denialism: An antispeciesist approach to the ethics of climate change" . In Almiron, Núria; Xifra, Jordi (eds.).
Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.
doi :
10.4324/9781351121798 .
ISBN
978-1-351-12179-8 .
S2CID
213336626 .
Almiron, Núria ; Faria, Catia (2019-07-01).
"Environmental and Animal Defense" . American Behavioral Scientist . 63 (8): 1043–1046.
doi :
10.1177/0002764219830458 .
hdl :
10230/42775 .
ISSN
0002-7642 .
S2CID
151299541 .
Almiron, Núria; —— (2019-05-29).
"Climate Change Impacts on Free-Living Nonhuman Animals. Challenges for Media and Communication Ethics" . Studies in Media and Communication . 7 (1): 37.
doi :
10.11114/smc.v7i1.4305 .
ISSN
2325-808X .
Faria, Catia (May 2018).
"A flimsy case for the use of non-human primates in research: a reply to Arnason" . Journal of Medical Ethics . 44 (5): 332–333.
doi :
10.1136/medethics-2017-104444 .
ISSN
0306-6800 .
PMID
29032367 .
S2CID
207012970 .
—— (2016-06-30).
"Why we should not postpone awareness of wild animal suffering" . Animal Sentience . 1 (7).
doi :
10.51291/2377-7478.1099 .
ISSN
2377-7478 .
—— (2016-03-15).
Animal ethics goes wild: The problem of wild animal suffering and intervention in nature (PhD thesis). Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
—— (November 2015).
"Disentangling Obligations of Assistance: a Reply to Clare Palmer's "Against the View That We Are Usually Required to Assist Wild Animals" " . Relations . 3 (2): 211–218.
doi :
10.7358/rela-2015-002-fari .
——; Paez, Eze (2014).
"Anthropocentrism and speciesism: conceptual and normative issues" . Revista de Bioética y Derecho (32): 95–103.
doi :
10.4321/S1886-58872014000300009 .
ISSN
1886-5887 .
—— (2014).
"Equality, priority and nonhuman animals" . Dilemata: International Journal of Applied Ethics . 14 : 225–236.
—— (2010).
"Zamir, Tzachi, Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation " . Telos (in Spanish). 17 (1): 109–120.
References
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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 .
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a
b
"Catia Faria" .
Academia.edu .
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a
b
"Catia Faria" . Center for Animal Ethics (UPF) . Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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a
b
"Animal Ethics in the Wild" . Cambridge University Press . Retrieved 2022-06-13 .
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a
b Faria, Catia.
"Short CV" (PDF) . EPS (Ethics, Politics & Society) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-02-04 .
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"First dissertation on helping animals in the wild" . Center for Animal Ethics (UPF) . 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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"Past Students" . The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics . Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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"Academic work on wild animal suffering edited by Animal Ethics activists" . Animal Ethics . 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
^ Faria, Catia (2014-12-21).
"Should we intervene in nature to help animals?" . Practical Ethics blog . Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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"Catia Faria" . elDiario.es . Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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"Catia Faria, autora en pikara magazine" [Catia Faria, author at pikara magazine]. Pikara Magazine (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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"Catia Faria and Oscar Horta contribute to The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics: With the chapter "Welfare Biology" " . Center for Animal Ethics (UPF) . 2020-12-20. Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
^
a
b Faria, Catia; Paez, Eze (2015-05-11).
"Animals in Need: the Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature" . Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism . 3 (1): 7–13.
ISSN
2280-9643 .
^ Faria, Catia; Paez, Eze (2019-02-17).
"It's Splitsville: Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics Are Incompatible" . American Behavioral Scientist . 63 (8): 1047–1060.
doi :
10.1177/0002764219830467 .
S2CID
150854523 .
^ Faria, Catia (2021-01-03).
"Xenozoopolis: Unnatural Solidarity" . Medium . Retrieved 2021-02-24 .
^
"Feminism and antispeciesism, a talk by philosopher Catia Faria" . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2021-02-24 .
^
a
b Ruiz Carreras, María (2016-11-04).
" "La lucha por la igualdad y la justicia es necesariamente feminista y antiespecista" " [The fight for equality and justice is necessarily feminist and antispeciesist]. Diagonal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-02-13 .
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