Avram Hiller

My blog post about how disability affects well-being is now out at the APA Blog.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/09/19/h...

The SSEA is excited to announce the first of our Fall 2025 Online Colloquium series.
Matthew Perry (University of British Columbia), October 2, Noon Eastern: "The Desubjectification of Animals".
For more information on how to attend, please visit our website, www.ethicandsanimals.org

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (SSEA) is hosting a mini-conference in Boulder, CO, on Weds., August 6. (This is the day before the RoME conference.) All are welcome! See www.ethicsandanimals.org for more info and for updates.

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The Debate That American Conservationists Should Be Having What if the U.S. protected ecosystems directly?

When Jay Odenbaugh, Yasha Rohwer, and I wrote our piece on owls, one of our main takeaways was that the Endangered Species Act is in need of supplementation. This excellent new piece by Emma Marris examines the case for that, with interviews with Jay and others.
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Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species - Daily Nous "The Return of the Dire Wolf" announced Time magazine---not quite correctly, it turns out---in its article on the creation of three creatures genetically engineered into existence by the firm Colossal...

The philosophy website Daily Nous just published (dailynous.com/2025/06/02/p...) several short pieces, including one I wrote, discussing the science and ethics of de-extinction efforts. My own piece is on the effects of de-extinction efforts on individual animal welfare.

I've been posting photos on Instagram, feel free to follow me there. www.instagram.com/av.hiller/?h...

SSEA - Events All colloquia will be conducted online and are an hour long. They are free and do not require advance registration. Please sign up to be on our mailing list to receive notifications of other upcoming...

Dayton Martindale, University of Colorado Boulder, is speaking this Thursday, April 10, at noon EDT: "Liberty for Animals: On Respect for Nonhuman Agency"
The talk is online and free to all. Please see the SSEA website (www.ethicsandanimals.org/events) for more details.

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals is excited to announce a mini-conference, to be held on August 6, immediately prior to the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) at UC Boulder. Abstract submissions are due April 25. See www.ethicsandanimals.org/mini-confere... for more information.

Avram Hiller on Substack The results reported by this new piece in JAMA Network Open (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2831132) are remarkable: 2.18% of all Americans have been physically injured i...

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Avram Hiller on Substack This piece (https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/shuffling-around-expected-value) is an excellent instance of what I called, in my first substack post (https://avramhiller.substack.com/p/where-should-moral...

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I am excited to announce that Lucia Schwarz (Tulane) is speaking on Wednesday, March 5, 11 AM EST: "Voting with Your Dollars – a Binomial Model of Vegan Consumer Choice"

All SSEA talks are free and are conducted over zoom. To attend, use this link: pdx.zoom.us/j/86949698825

Thanks for letting me know and for offering to be back in touch.

We've never met, I don't think, but I enjoy your writings, and I wish you the very best in dealing with your medical issues.

2025 Central Division Meeting - Virtual (Entirely Online) To present or actively participate in sessions, you will need a computer, smartphone, or tablet with a camera, microphone, and internet access (ideally, high-speed internet access). To view session recordings, you only need a computer, smartphone, or tablet that can play videos.

Does anyone know what's going on with the Central APA? It is supposed to start in less than a month and from what I can see there is no program posted yet. www.apaonline.org/mpage/2025ce...

SSEA - Events All colloquia will be conducted online and are an hour long. They are free and do not require advance registration. Please sign up to be on our mailing list to receive notifications of other upcoming...

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals is hosting a talk by Harry Lloyd (Yale), this Thursday 1/9 at noon EST, titled "Animals, Just Distribution, and Cost Effectiveness". The talk is online and free to all. For more information about how to attend, please see the SSEA website. Thanks!

So sorry to hear this, Matt. Wishing you the very best with all of this.

Controversial plan to save spotted owls sparks debate The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is implementing a divisive plan to save the endangered spotted owl by killing its competitor, the barred owl.

I’m on TV talking northern spotted owls. #KPTV www.kptv.com/2024/11/26/c...

The Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals is pleased to present a talk by Mattia Cecchinato (Oxford), "No Consciousness, No Welfare" on December 4 at 11AM Eastern (US) | 4PM GMT. The talk is online and free to all.

To attend, please see our Events page at www.ethicsandanimals.org/upcoming

Risk and Responsibility Conference: Law and Climate Change Zoom link and info https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/66973823621?pwd=YUZ6cFpkbUFEZi9uUTBMYkI5YUZpQT09 Meeting ID: 669 7382 3621 | Passcode: 557023 -- Conference description Risk and responsibility are topics...

I will be speaking at this online mini-conference tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST/8:00 AM PST. Attendance is free! I will be talking about our climate responsibilities and about how much garam masala to put into your lentils (among other things). See info in link. philevents.org/event/show/1...