About the Authors
- About the Authors
JONATHAN BALCOMBE is an ethologist based in the United States. He serves as associate editor of the journal Animal Sentience. His latest book is The New York Times best-seller What a Fish Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). Email: jonathan@jonathanbalcombe.com
A. W. H. BATES is medical director of Convit House Pathology Ltd.; honorary senior lecturer in pathology at University College, London; and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His books include Emblematic Monsters (Clio Medica, 2005), The Anatomy of Robert Knox (Sussex Academic Press, 2010), and Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Email: alan.bates@ucl.ac.uk
STEPHEN BENNETT is a current higher degree research student in philosophy at Macquarie University. He completed his undergraduate degree at Macquarie University, where he received a high achievement award from the Department of Philosophy. He is currently engaged with his master's thesis, which deals with the ethics of self-driving cars, focusing on the question of how they should be programmed to act when faced with an unavoidable accident where harm cannot be avoided. Research interests include: utilitarian ethics, animal ethics, self-driving car ethics, and moral psychology. Email: stephen.bennett@hdr.mq.edu.au
CHARLOTTE E. BLATTNER, Dr. iur., is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She is author of Terra Incognita: Protecting Animals Across Borders (forthcoming). Her areas of research are: animal law, international law, trade law, environmental law, agricultural and research policies, animal ethics, and cognitive biases in the law. Email: charlotte.blattner@queensu.ca
JENNIFER CLEMENTS holds a BA in archaeology and anthropology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in social research methods from the University of Sussex. She was formerly president of the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society and is now a life member of the society. She has written one article for the Journal of Animal Ethics (Fall 2015) and is in the process of writing another; these concern animals in science fiction and the anthropology of fur, respectively. She is now a PhD candidate in animal ethics and agriculture at the University of Exeter. Email: Jennifer.clements@zoho.com
DANIEL A. DOMBROWSKI is professor of philosophy at Seattle University. Among his books are the following: Rethinking the Ontological Argument (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases (University of Illinois Press, 1997). Email: ddombrow@seattleu.edu
ELISA GALGUT earned her PhD from Rutgers University and now teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. She is also a member of the University of Cape Town Bioethics Centre. She is currently a member, and served for several years as the chair, of the University of Cape Town's Senate Animal Ethics Committee. Her research interests include animal ethics, the philosophy of art and literature, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. Email: elisa.galgut@uct.ac.za
ALEX HOWE is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University of Missouri. He studies political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of mind. His current research examines the idea of politically enfranchising domestic animals in the pluralistic, liberal democratic state. Email: howe101@gmail.com
ROBERT LAZO is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His articles include "Lucretius's Venus and Epicurean Compassion Toward Nondomesticated Animals," published in the Journal of Animal Ethics, and "Utilitarian Benefit and Uncertainty Under Emergent Systems," in The Ethical Case Against Animal Experiments (Illinois University Press, 2017). His research currently focuses on philosophical naturalism, Lucretius, complexity science and emergence, and animal ethics. Email: rpslazo@gmail.com
RANDALL LOCKWOOD holds a PhD in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is currently senior vice president for anticruelty special projects at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the Denver University Center for Human-Animal Interaction and is affiliate assistant professor in small animal clinical sciences at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. He is coauthor of Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence...
