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140Arguing for Vegetarianism: (symbolic) ingestion and the (inevitable) absent referent — intersecting Jacques Derrida and Carol J. AdamsBetween the Species 25 (1): 63-79. 2022.In this paper I draw together the notion of the absent referent as proposed by Carol J. Adams, and the notions of literal and symbolical sacrifice by eating the other — or ingestion — advanced by Jacques Derrida, to characterize how animals are commonly perceived, which ultimately forbids productive arguments for vegetarianism. I discuss animals as being literally and definitionally absent referents, and I argue, informed by Derrida’s philosophy, that it is impossible to aim at turning them into…Read more
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127Instrução e Corrupção Moral pela Literatura: engajamento emocional e o valor epistémico da arte narrativaRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 31 (61): 59-74. 2022.Pretende-se auscultar a possibilidade de instrução moral pela literatura. Defender-se-á que a arte narrativa é capaz de instruir moralmente pois 1) proporciona um tipo de conhecimento não-proposicional que permite o acesso a novas perspetivas, e 2) é capaz de cultivar e refinar os valores e as práticas morais dos leitores, através do engajamento emocional. Tentar-se-á mostrar que o poder inverso — o poder de corromper moralmente — não se verifica (ou não se verifica tão facilmente): apelar-se-á …Read more
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11Beyond the Anthropological Difference: by Matthew Calarco, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 75 pp., £15.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781108797375 (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (3): 416-420. 2021.In Beyond the Anthropological Difference, Matthew Calarco aims both at exposing and interpreting the current theoretical situation regarding animals and at proposing a new way of conceiving human-animal relations, advancing what he calls an ‘ontology of indistinction’. Mimicking Jacques Derrida’s project of decentring philosophy, here Calarco aims at decentring ethics appealing to a serious consideration of the relations between beings as opposed to a search for a ‘primary locus of ethical consi…Read more
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178Beyond the Anthropological Difference (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies (3): 416-420. 2021.In Beyond the Anthropological Difference, Matthew Calarco aims both at exposing and interpreting the current theoretical situation regarding animals and at proposing a new way of conceiving human-animal relations, advancing what he calls an ‘ontology of indistinction’. Mimicking Jacques Derrida’s project of decentring philosophy, here Calarco aims at decentring ethics appealing to a serious consideration of the relations between beings as opposed to a search for a ‘primary locus of ethical consi…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Derrida: Animals |
Jacques Derrida |
Areas of Interest
Emmanuel Levinas |
20th Century Continental Philosophy |
Animal Ethics |