Catia Faria is assistant professor in Applied Ethics at the Complutense University of Madrid, and is a board member of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics.
14 Facts About Catia Faria
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Catia Faria's thesis was the first of its kind to defend the idea that humans should help non-human animals in the wild to reduce the problem of wild animal suffering; it was assessed by Genoveva Marti, Alasdair Cochrane and Jeff McMahan, and supervised by Paula Casal, Oscar Horta, and Joao Cardoso Rosas.
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Catia Faria is assistant professor in Applied Ethics at the Complutense University of Madrid.
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Catia Faria formerly worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the University of Minho, as lecturer in Ethics and Sustainability at Pompeu Fabra University, and was a visiting researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
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In 2015, Catia Faria co-edited, with Eze Paez, a double volume of the journal Relations.
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Catia Faria has authored articles for the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics blog; Nietzsche's Horse, the Spanish online newspaper ElDiario.
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In 2020, Catia Faria co-authored, with Oscar Horta, a chapter on welfare biology in The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics.
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Catia Faria is critical of the environmentalist view that nature should be left alone and argues that environmentalists intervene in nature constantly for anthropocentric benefit and to further their own aims; she asserts that animal and environmental ethics are incompatible because of their differing moral consideration of non-human animals.
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Catia Faria argues that both intersectional feminism and antispeciesism are necessary in the fight for equality and justice.
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Catia Faria is the originator of the concept of "xenozoopolis"; a hybrid of xenofeminism and antispeciesism, which calls for the abolition of the "human-alien binary".
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Catia Faria asserts that a feminist approach towards antispeciesism implies a commitment to veganism.
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Catia Faria argues that this view of nature is inaccurate and that suffering is commonly experienced by these individuals.
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Catia Faria asserts that while we should replace the existing male paradigms of intervention in nature, such as hunting, this does not mean that the solution is non-intervention.
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Catia Faria instead contends that we should work towards helping these individuals.