domingo, 29 de maio de 2011

Dr. Carlos Naconecy

Sexta-feira, 3 de junho, às 9h, palestra "A Discriminação moral contra animais: esclarecendo o conceito de 'Espe-cismo'" com o Dr. Carlos Naconecy. 

Dr. Carlos Naconecy has completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. His thesis topic was ‘The Life Ethic: Moral Biocentrism and the Concept of Bio-Respect’. Previously, he gained a Master of Philosophy degree at the Pontifica Universidade Católica with a thesis on contemporary environmental ethics, and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) which included a dissertation on the moral status of the non-human. Since 2003, he has been a Researcher with the Grupo de Pesquisas Integradas/Dialética at the Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil. In 2006, he obtained a grant from the Brazilian governmental funding agency to become a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He has presented papers at academic conferences in Lisbon, Cambridge, and Gramado, Brazil.
 
His publications include: Ética & Animais: um guia de argumentação filosófica (Ethics and Animals: A Guide to the Philosophical Arguments) (Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2006), and ‘Ética e os Não-Humanos’ (Ethics and Non-Human Beings) in Ética: crise e perpectivas (Ethics: crisis and perspectives) (Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2004).



 

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