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8Political representation, the environment, and Edmund Burke: A re-reading of the Western canon through the lens of multispecies justiceEuropean Journal of Political Theory. forthcoming.A major puzzle in contemporary political theory is how to extend notions of justice to the environment. With environmental entities unable to communicate in ways that are traditionally recognised within the political sphere, their interests have largely been recognised instrumentally: only important as they contribute to human interests. In response to the multispecies justice project's call to reimagine our concepts of justice to include other-than-human beings and entities, we offer a novel re…Read more
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12Review of Sharon Krause’s Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom (review)Res Publica 30 (2): 423-428. 2024.
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138Just fodder: The ethics of feeding animals (review)Contemporary Political Theory 1-4. forthcoming.
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17Criminalising (cubes of) truth: animal advocacy, civil disobedience, and the politics of sightCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 1-25. forthcoming.Should animal advocates be allowed to publicly display graphic footage of how animals live (and die) in industrial animal use facilities? Cube of truth (‘cube’) demonstrations are a form of animal advocacy aimed at informing the public about the realities of animals’ experiences in places such as slaughterhouses, feedlots, and research facilities, by showing footage of mostly lawful practices within these workplaces. Activists engaging in cube-style protests have recently been targeted by law en…Read more
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43Moral Responsiveness and Nonhuman Animals: A Challenge to Kantian MoralityEthics and the Environment 24 (1): 45. 2019.The thesis of this paper is that certain nonhuman animals could be conceived of as capable of moral motivation and subsequent moral behavior, with the appropriate behavioral, psychological and cognitive evidence. I argue that a certain notion of morality—morality as the process of conscious, reasoned deliberation over explicit moral concepts—is excessively exclusionary, and that such a notion describes one mode of moral cognition, but not, as others have argued, morality's essence. Instead, mora…Read more
Australian National University
PhD, 2022
Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Areas of Specialization
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Animal Rights |
Animal Ethics |
Moral Status of Animals |
Political Science |
Environmental Justice |
Legal Rights |
Rights and Personhood |