Alfonso Donoso
Membership: 2021
Member Bio
Alfonso Donoso is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. His current research focuses on different aspects of the political turn in animal ethics with a special interest in questions of political morality concerning animals and climate justice, non-anthropocentric political institutions, and the political intersections between animal and environmental ethics.
As a Carson Fellow, Alfonso worked on the project "A Political Morality of Species Extinction and Intergenerational Interspecies Justice." The first part of the project investigated the role of moral rights when thinking about species extinction and its implications for the legitimacy of the State, while the second part was devoted to the normative constraints that future generations of nonhuman animals and nature (may) impose upon current generations of citizens and the state.
