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"Why Do Animals Dream?": David M. Peña-Guzmán in conversation with Ellie Anderson



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Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? In this conversation with Ellie Anderson, David M. Peña-Guzmán will bring behavioural and neuroscientific research on animal sleep into conversation with philosophical theories of dreaming, proposing that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals. Peña-Guzmán will argue that once we accept that animals dream, we incur a host of moral obligations and have no choice but to rethink our views about who animals are and the interior lives they lead.

David M. Peña-Guzmán is associate professor of humanities and liberal studies at San Francisco State University. He specializes in critical animal studies, the history and philosophy of science, and contemporary European philosophy. His new book When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness is published in May by Princeton University Press. https://twitter.com/DrPenaGuzman1

Ellie Anderson is assistant professor of philosophy at Pomona College, specializing in continental European philosophy, with an emphasis on twentieth-century French philosophy and feminist theory. Her research focuses on relational theories of selfhood, the philosophy of love, and sexual ethics. She is co-host (with David M. Peña-Guzmán) of the Overthink podcast. https://www.ellieandersonphd.com / https://twitter.com/ellieanderphd
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