About the Authors
- About the Authors
CHERYL E. ABBATE is a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Articles include: “Adventures in Moral Consistency: How to Develop an Abortion Ethic from an Animal Rights Framework” and “The Search for Liability in the Defensive Killing of Nonhuman Animals.” Research interests include: nonhuman animal ethics, environmental ethics, military ethics, and feminist philosophy. Email: Cheryl.abbate@colorado.edu
MARIA BALASKA gained her PhD in Philosophy from Paris 8 University with a dissertation on “Groundlessness and possibilities of meaning: Young Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan respond to experiences of limitation.” Her research interests include Wittgenstein, ethics, aesthetics and psychoanalytic theory. She has written papers on Tractarian ontology, the relation between ethics and aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. She is currently working on a project about moral and epistemic normativity from the perspective of the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Email: maria.g.balaska@gmail.com
SEBASTIAN BROCK is emeritus reader in Syriac Studies, and emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has written extensively on Syriac topics; among his books are The Harp of the Spirit: Poems of St Ephrem (1975, 3rd edn. 2013), The Bible in the Syriac Tradition (1989; 2nd edn 2006), St Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns on Paradise (1990), The Luminous Eye: the Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (1992), Isaac of Nineveh: ‘the Second Part’ (chapters 4–41) (1995), A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature (1997, 3rd edn. 2009), From Ephrem to Romanos: Interactions between Syriac and Greek in Late Antiquity (1999), (ed.) The Hidden Pearl: the Syrian Orthodox Church and its Ancient Aramaic Heritage, I-III (2001), Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy (2006), Mary and Joseph, and other Dialogue Poems on Mary (2011), Treasure-house of Mysteries: Explorations of the Sacred Text through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition (2012). He is a co-editor of The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (2011). Email: sebastian.brock@orinst.ox.ac.uk
JONATHAN M. CAHILL is entering his second year of PhD work at Boston College in Theological Ethics. Previously he worked as a chemical engineer for a decade before graduating Summa Cum Laude from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with a Masters in Ethics and Society. Recent and accepted articles include “Freedom For Life: Karl Barth, Transhumanism and Human Flourishing” and “The Descent Into Solidarity: Christ’s Descent Into Hell As Stimulus For Justice.” Research interests include bioethics, neuroethics and animal ethics. Email: jonathan.cahill@bc.edu [End Page 119]
LAURA COX holds a BSc (Hons) in Animal Management from the University of the West of England (Hartpury College), Gloucestershire. Research interests include: animal ethics, animal cognition, and animal welfare. Email: Laura.Cox@hartpury.ac.uk
CAROL M. CRAVEN is a PhD candidate in the Humanities program at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She also holds degrees in education and business administration. Her current research centers on the compassionate and ethical treatment of animals regarding conservation programs in East Africa. Other research interests include animal law and moral and religious philosophy as they pertain to all forms of life. Email: carol.craven@salve.edu
VALÉRY GIROUX, LL.M. and PhD in philosophy, is the coordinator of the Centre for Research in ethics (CRE) located at University of Montreal. She is also associate professor at University of Sherbrooke and a member of the Quebec Bar. Published book chapter and articles include: “Le droit à la liberté des animaux sensibles” (in Bêtes Humaines, Autrement, 2015), and “Des doits légaux fondamentaux pour tous les êtres sensibles” (Klésis, 2010). Her forthcoming book is: Les droits fondamentaux des animaux, L’Âge d’Homme, 2016. Email : valery.giroux@umontreal.ca
ALMA MASSARO is a PhD student at the Philosophy Department of the University of Genoa, Italy. Books include Lucrezio e gli animali, (Silvae 2014) Emotività animali. Ricerche e discipline a confronto (Led 2014). Research interests include: animal ethics, Christian ethics, and Lucretian studies. Email: almamassaro@gmail.com
V. TAMARA MONTROSE, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England (Hartpury College), Gloucestershire. Research interests include: animal ethics, behavioral ecology, and animal welfare. Email: Tamara.Montrose...
