Dan Perry

Personal Details

Dan Perry

dan.perry@weizmann.ac.il

Academic

BA, 1993, Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University.

BA, 1993, Jewish Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University.

MA (with honors), 1999, Religious Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Thesis written under the supervision of professor Andrew Linzey of Oxford University.

Software engineer, 1999 Sela training courses.

Currently Ph.D. student at The Graduate Program for Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University.

Research Interests

Animal rights - social and philosophical aspects.

Environmental ethics.

Philosophy of ecology.

Masters' Thesis Topic

Christian perspectives on the morality of sport hunting and their relation to Biblical and Pre-Biblical views.

Ph.D. Thesis Topic

Alien Specie: the philosophical, historical and social rationale behind the contmporary treatment of invasive alien species.

Publications

2004, Animal rights and environmental wrongs: the case of the grey squirrel in Northern Italy. Essays in Philosophy 5(2).

Conference Presentations

Social and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Invasive Alien Species. Paper presented in Hebrew at :כנס פלישות ביולוגיות , Ben-Gurion University Be'er-Sheva, January 2005.

Social, Philisophical and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Invasive Alien Species. Paper presented in Hebrew at: הכנס השנתי החמישי של האגודה הישראלית להיסטוריה ופילוסופיה של המדע ,Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, March 2005.

Alien Species and Animal Rights. Poster presented at the International Conference: Living with Global Change: Challenges in Environmental Sciences, Israeli Society for Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences, Weizmann institute if Science, Rehovot, May 30- June 1, 2005.

Environmental Wrongs and Animal Rights. Paper presented at the international conference: Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship, Mansfield College, Oxford, July 2005.

Social and Philosophical Considerations in the treatment of Invasive Alien Species. Paper presented in Hebrew at the Interdisciplinary conference: "לדעת את הגבול", Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, November 2005.