Matt Perry

How much is too much? Why defining ‘mass incarceration’ is important – and isn’t as easy as it seems In this post, Vincent Chiao, discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on how to understand the “mass” part of “mass incarceration.” By Our World In Data. See En…

How much incarceration is too much? Vincent Chiao (Toronto) discusses the insights from his recently published article in @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/how-...

It's that time of year! If you are a new PhD student in philosophy starting this fall, please let me know to add you to the starter pack!

Alternatively, add the starter pack to get some fresh perspectives. :-)

I'm speaking at the next Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy event at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in 10 days time! Excited and grateful for the opportunity to share my work

Thanks for joining us Josh! Looking forward to reading your book.

Before the world wakes, the birds are already singing…

This week, we’re celebrating the dawn chorus at its peak. 😍

Each day, we’ll be spotlighting a few of the voices, building up to #InternationalDawnChorusDay this Sunday 4th May.

Who'll be getting up early with us to catch the magic? 🎵

Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence?
If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence!
Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do...
#polisky #animalsky

Beyond the Ivory Tower Interview with Toby Buckle This is the latest interview in our Beyond the Ivory Tower series, a conversation between Sara van Goozen and Toby Buckle. Toby Buckle runs the popular Political Philosophy Podcast. He has a BA in …

Real pleasure to be interviewed by @drsvg.bsky.social for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social

How to start a podcast, how academics can build a public profile, & how Mill relates to the manosphere

justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...

Call for papers: Forgotten Animals, 17th-18th September 2025, University of Leicester. Political philosophy conference on nonhuman animals, send me your abstracts! More details here: stevecooke.org?p=290

With @stevecooke.org, @drsvg.bsky.social, @mattwperry.bsky.social, and others I'm organizing the latest conference in the 'Animal Politics' series, this time hosted in Leicester. The theme is 'Forgotten Animals', and we're now accepting abstracts. Spread the word!

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What Are Zoos For? What Are Zoos For?; Heather Browning and Walter Veit test the common justifications for zoos (entertainment, education, research, conservation) against the evidence and suggest what the best zoos of t...

Our book came out today 🥳
In 'What Are Zoos For?' we examine the common justifications for zoos and argue that zoos are (or should be) for animals, placing animal welfare at the centre of their operations.
Order here, or through most online booksellers:
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...

Justice and Security-based Attachment, which I co authored with Stephanie Collins (Monash) is out in the Journal of Moral Philosophy now.

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I've built myself a website, which includes a list of journals for animal rights philosophers to submit to (organised by publisher), a couple of syllabi, my essay writing guide for political philosophy students, & articles that philosophers say have changed their minds: stevecooke.org

Matthew Wray Perry, Sentient dignity and the plausible inclusion of animals - PhilPapers Dignity often serves as the cornerstone for a justification of rights. However, it has been criticised for its exclusion of nonhuman animals and many human individuals: dignity is traditionally ground...

"Humans and animals have something in common despite our differences: a shared capacity for sentience, and so, a shared dignity that extends across the species."

My paper detailing and defending the idea of sentient dignity is out with Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Please read and share!

"Animals, Property, and Personhood": An Essay by Gary L. Francione (Keywords: Ethics; Animal Rights; Law; Veganism; Suffering; Anthropocentrism) "We may think of animals as having moral value. But, because they are property, they don’t have moral value. They are just things."

Sunday Read:
Gary L. Francione looks to the history of philosophy to dismantle the conventional wisdom that it is acceptable to use and kill animals as long as we do so humanely.

www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/animals...

Us prepping for the soon-to-exist Ethics for the Everyday podcast. It's more work than we thought, but we promise we will exist soon!!!

I prefer to think of them as "involuntary migrants" or even "refugees"! It seems innocuous, but I think hugely important.

I think too that philosophy being based in vibes is one of its strengths. Paper here philarchive.org/rec/DECITM-2

"Poster for the 'Rethinking Wild Europe' conference taking place on 7th-8th February 2025. The event focuses on European perspectives on wilderness, rewilding, and biodiversity conservation. The background features a rugged mountain landscape with snowy peaks. The conference location is the University of Vienna.

📣Conference alert📣

Rethinking Wild Europe, University of Vienna

With keynote speakers @monicavasile.bsky.social and @martindrenthen.bsky.social!

I'll also give a talk on wildlife representation 🤓

Come join if you're around!

cetep.eu/rethinking-w...

#PhilSky #Environment #Biodiversity #Animals

Congrats Matilda!

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics

Pre-orders of the collection I edited for Bloomsbury on care ethics are now available.

So excited to have found a home for some fantastic contributions from across our international scholarly community!

2025 PTPS Junior Scholars Workshop We seek paper proposals for the sixth Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) Junior Scholars Workshop, which will take place at McGill April 25-26, 2025. An ongoing collaboration among fa...

Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social

www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

wake up babe Hart's *new* paper just dropped academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...

Our starter pack for Manchester Politics connected researchers, let us know if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/J8MN89B

Hi Lisa this is a great one! Could you add me please?

Eating Food Produced in Harmful Ways: Wrongful Complicity or Moral Tragedy? Abstract Imagine you come across a leftover turkey sandwich that will expire soon, no one is around to eat it, and you cannot donate it to someone else before it goes bad. A new omnivore says that you...

Just published in the Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research: 'Eating Food Produced in Harmful Ways: Wrongful Complicity or Moral Tragedy?', which I co-authored with Chris Bobier.

#philsky #animalethics #animalrights #foodethics

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I would like to see this in medicine as well. You know how it's (rightly) a major scandal when a surgeon is found to have "signed" his name inside their patients? Then why do people have to go around with disorders named after people?

#medsky #bioethics

Thanks for sharing Zsuzsanna! I hadn't thought of this - but I think you have a point and many of the things I discuss in the post about the colonial roots of eponyms seem to directly apply to this as well.

Thanks Sara!

More Than a Name: Decolonising Wildlife Anna’s Hummingbird hovering © Matt Perry Vancouver’s official city bird is the small but charming Anna’s Hummingbird. This bird’s namesake was a 19th Century Italian Duchess – Anna Mass…

New Post!
More Than a Name: Decolonising Wildlife
Matthew Perry argues that eponymously named animals (named after a person), ideally so that the new name reorients us to each animal's importance independent of human history.

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Successful academic writing:

That’s goodness that’s finished.

Oh no, peer review comments.

Phew, done.

Oh no, copy editors comments.

Phew done.

Oh no proof reading.

Phew done.

Published!!

(Reads it again. Thinks to self: Who wrote this rubbish?)