christopher erhard is a lecturer in philosophy at LMU Munich, Germany. He holds an MA in philosophy and a PhD from LMU. He is associate editor of Husserl Studies, the author of Denken über nichts: Intentionalität und das Problem der Nicht-Existenz bei Husserl (De Gruyter, 2014), and coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency (Routledge, 2021). His research and teaching focus is on classical phenomenology, analytic philosophy of mind and action, and animal ethics. Email: christopher.erhard@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.wasseem emam is a researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and director of Ethical Seafood Research Glasgow, UK. His forthcoming book from Taylor and Francis is entitled Fish Feels: Sentience and Welfare in Aquaculture. Wasseem's research interests include aquatic ecology, fish welfare, and the development of ethical aquaculture systems. Email: wasseem@ethicalseafoodresearch.org.vera flocke is an independent scholar. She was previously assistant professor in philanthropy at Indiana University, Bloomington. She also served as the executive director of a private nonprofit foundation that funds farmed animal advocacy for 3 years. She holds a PhD in philosophy from New York University and has published on (meta)metaphysics, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of language. Her work has been published in Noûs, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and in an edited volume by Oxford University Press. Her research interests are animal ethics and the ethics of philanthropic giving. Email: vera@veraflocke.info.aryama ghosh is assistant professor in the Department of History, Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah, India. He received his MPhil from Jadavpur University with the dissertation “English East India Company's Pacification Campaigns in Bengal in the Late 18th Century.” He is a doctoral candidate at Jadavpur University. His research interests include animal history, particularly in the context of animal diplomacy. Email: aryama.foucault.ghosh@gmail.com.katie javanaud is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford, where her research focused on Buddhist ethics and the concepts of agency and responsibility. She is primarily interested in issues in applied ethics, especially animal and environmental ethics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Animal Ethics, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Philosophy East and West, and Aeon magazine. Email: katiejavanaud@gmail.com.kira kiesler is a recent graduate from Dietrich College at Carnegie Mellon University, having earned her degree in ethics, history, and public policy, with an additional major in philosophy. She is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at University of California, Davis. She is the president and founder of the nonprofit animal rescue organization Genevieve's Gentle Hearts Rescue. Research interests include animal ethics, disability studies, medical ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, applied ethics, and political philosophy. Email: kkiesler@alumni.cmu.edu.partha mukherjee is an assistant professor of history at Egra SSB College, Egra, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India. He holds a BA (Hons) in history from Scottish Church College, Kolkata, India, and an MA and MPhil from Jadavpur University. He is also studying for a PhD at Vidyasagar University. His work has been published in Summerhill: IIAS, Contemporary Voice of Dalits, and the Journal of People's History (Garia Society for Studies of Marginal People). Email: parthafiddler@gmail.com.mariana almeida pereira is a PhD student in philosophy (whose doctoral project is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) and a collaborating member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is interested in Jacques Derrida's deconstruction, especially focusing on the philosophical questions regarding animals and animality, the structure of sacrifice, and the relation between subjectivity, responsibility, and hospitality. Email: marianaacgpereira@outlook.pt.daniela rizzo is a PhD candidate and associate lecturer of systematic theology at Alphacrucis University College, Australia. Her thesis explores theological foundations for a pneumatology of animals. Email: drdanirizzo@gmail.com.belen segundo-franco is an undergraduate student in the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her academic work bridges evolutionary theory and animal ethics, with a focus on the concept of animal dignification. She is the author of the thesis “En defensa de la dignificación animal: Una crítica a la ecología de la conducta” (National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2025), supervised by Dr. Erica Torrens-Rojas. Her research interests include behavioral ecology, moral philosophy, and interspecies justice. Email: belensegundo@ciencias.unam.mx.erica torrens-rojas is a professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specializing in philosophy of science and evolutionary biology. Her publications explore the intersections of epistemology, animal ethics, and scientific methodology. She is a coauthor of several interdisciplinary volumes on evolution and cognition. Email: torrens@ciencias.unam.mx.
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