Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals

L. Syd M Johnson , PhD, is Associate Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University. She is a member of the Neuroethics Division of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative, co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics, and co-founder of the Animal Bioethics Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities.

Andrew Fenton , PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. He has numerous journal articles on animal neuroethics and animal research ethics, as well as chapters in books such as The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds . He coordinates the interdisciplinary and transinstitutional Halifax Animal Studies Group in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Adam Shriver is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. He has published articles at the intersection of animal ethics and the neurosciences in journals such as Philosophical Psychology , Neuroethics , The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , and The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics . Adam co-organized a pre-conference workshop on Animals and Neuroethics for the 2009 Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, organized a 2016 workshop on Animal Research Neuroethics at the University of Pennsylvania with funding from the Alternatives Research Development Foundation, and is editing a special issue on bioethics of the International Laboratory Animal Research journal.