Personhood Beyond the Human – a Conference
A conference on “Personhood Beyond the Human” is tentatively scheduled in the Fall 2013 and will be held at Yale University. (Note: It was originally scheduled for Spring 2013.) The event will focus on personhood for nonhuman animals, including great apes, cetaceans, and elephants, and will explore the evolving notions of personhood by analyzing them through the frameworks of neuroscience, behavioral science, philosophy, ethics, and law.
The conference will be co-sponsored by the Nonhuman Rights Project and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologiesin collaboration with the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.
Special consideration will be given to discussions of nonhuman animal personhood, both in terms of understanding the history, science, and philosophy behind personhood, and ways to protect animal interests through the establishment of legal precedents and by increasing public awareness.
By the close of the conference, attendees will have gained an enhanced understanding of the neurological, cognitive, and behavioral underpinnings of personhood and those traits required for such consideration; personhood theory; the history of personhood consideration and status (both in terms of philosophical and legal conceptions); and the legal hurdles and requirements for granting personhood status outside of the human species.
The Nonhuman Rights Project will be presenting our research from the past five years including research on the varying legal causes of action that the Nonhuman Rights Project will use to argue legal personhood for specific nonhuman animals.
We’ll post more information, including how to attend the conference, as soon as it becomes available.
Is the conference opened to any one interested in?
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Yes. We will be posting more information, including information on registration, as it becomes available.
This link was forwarded to me by a graduate student. Please include my name on the direct mailing list for information about this conference.
Thank you.
Marianne DeKoven
Distinguished Professor of English
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Please see/read Mortimer Adler’s “The Difference In Man and the Difference It Makes” for the necessary philosophical grounding.
Could the left and academia (I repeat myself) be any more carricature of themselves? Rhetorical. Good grief people (and non people for that matter)!!
I am extremely interested in attending. Is there a fee? Or can anyone attend including those without funds?
We will be posting more information about the conference as it becomes available.
One of my dreams is that Cetceans be granted non-human species personhood status. Granting these self-aware, sentient beings, constitution personhood rights protection status. There of course are countless
other non-human species (all actually) that should be granted this status. ‘The greatness of a nation and its
moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated ~ Mahatma Gandhi’ _/\_
Please can I be emailed details about this conference
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