Gjesteforelesning ved FoF: Alice Crary, New Scool of Social Research, New York

professor Alice Crary fra New School for Social Research, New York, 

holder en gjesteforelesning ved instituttet MANDAG 3. DESEMBER, kl. 

14.15-16.00, rom 210, Sydnesplassen 12/13. Tittel på forelesningen: 

"Freedom is for the Dogs" (for nærmere omtale, se nedenfor).

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"Freedom is for the Dogs"

Alice Crary, New School for Social Research

This talk is about freedom and dogs. It is also part of a larger 

project dedicated to demonstrating the availability of a tenable 

conceptualism, where conceptualism is understood as the view that our 

modes of awareness are conceptual all the way down. Champions and 

critics of conceptualist views tend to represent them as obliging us 

to deny that animals possess any significant capacities of mind. Yet I 

claim that, far from being a hindrance, a thoughtful conceptualism can 

give us the resources to describe the rich range of capacities of mind 

possessed by animals of different kinds. A conceptualist outlook can 

equip us to recognize that many non-human animals are neither mere 

stimulus and response mechanisms nor mere systems of exploitable 

instincts but rather creatures that are in an important sense free. 

This talk's treatment of these topics focuses on the case of dogs. But 

its argument - which includes references to the writings of authors 

who work with dogs - has a direct bearing on our resources for 

thinking not only about other non-human animals but also about the 

kinds of free and rational animals that we human beings are.

Alice Crary is associate professor in philosophy at the New School for 

Social Research, and the author of many articles on moral philosophy, 

philosophy & literature, animals & ethics, and feminist theory, as 

well as on figures such as Wittgenstein and Austin. She is currently 

writing a book on ethics and animals.