Monday, March 31, 2025
5:00pm-6:30pm
Naylor Auditorium, Gailor Hall
Our relationships with other animals are changing. We know so much more about different species, we enter long and meaningful relationships with companion animals, and we use and kill an unprecedented number of other animals with a new level of detachment.
In this lecture, I argue that we can make sense of these different ways of relating to animals by looking, not at our moral choices, but at our capacity to attend and our motivation to deflect attention. What is it like to attend to other animals, why do we avoid it, and what happens when we try?
