Mara-Daria Cojocaru


Main focus: animal ethics

Websites/Blogs/Social Media Accounts: https://maradariacojocaru.weebly.com
https://www.facebook.com/IES.hfph

Languages: English, German

City: Munich

Country: Germany

Topics: animal ethics, animal rights, political philosophy, pragmatism, practical philosophy, poetry, animal welfare

Bio:

Reasons for becoming passionate (about) animals?*

I am teaching practical philosophy at the School of Philosophy in Munich. Furthermore I conducted a research project on the theories of emotions in classical pragmatism for 15 months within the context of a DFG research fellowship at the philosophy department of the University of Sheffield. During that time I focused on articles concerning emotions and their epistemic roles as intellectual virtues. Problems that appear when discussing human-animal-relations offer the opportunity to combine theoretical thoughts with praxis. And when I just cannot make a head of these whimsicalities of human-animalrelations I begin by working with lyric poetry.

I have studied political science, philosophy, theatre science, and law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). It is also there that I received a PhD in 2011 for a dissertation in political philosophy, relating a theme from ancient political philosophy (the good city) to debates on and conditions of modern urban life. The book was published in in 2012.

I support efforts to make philosophy more inclusive, especially with regard to women in philosophy, and I want to mention this project on the so called 'Wartime Quartet' (Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch) in particular, Moreover, I believe that philosophy should be made more accessible to the general public. Seminars at schools or additional trainings about my research topics seem to be good opportunities to reach out to the general public interest in the topics mentioned above.

I am happy to provide you with a CV upon request.

*the title of the book I am currently working on.

Examples of previous talks / appearances:

Animals in ethics

07.09.2019

This talk is in: English
Last Exit nach dem Brexit. Ist Europa noch zu retten?

11.05.2019

This talk is in: German
Reasons for becoming passionate (about) animals

25.03.2019

This talk is in: German
Challenging Pluralism? Probleme und Perspektiven normativen Urteilens in sog. Tierethik-Kommissionen

08.11.2015, Munich, workshop for students on animal ethics

This talk is in: German
Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Emotion?

16.07.2015

This talk is in: German