All members and nonmembers of the SSEA are invited to these sessions. Professional philosophers who attend the meetings are expected to registered for the APA meeting. Central in late April, and Eastern in late December.
Papers are welcome on any topic concerning ethical issues affecting nonhuman animals.
The ethics and epistemology of animal research. Companion animals, paternalism, and community. The importance of animal issue in philosophy. The justifiability of Animal Liberation Front activities. Historical studies of conceptions of the moral standing of nonhumans.