Am Freitag, 12.12.25, haben die drei Autoren Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Rosenberger von der Katholischen Privatuniversität Linz sowie Dr. Konstantin Deininger und Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herwig Grimm von der Veterinärmedizinischen Universität Wien ein gemeinsam erarbeitetes Lehr- und Studienbuch zur Tierethik vorgestellt. Das Lehrbuch, das im Nomos-Verlag in Baden-Baden erschienen ist, gibt einen Überblick über wichtige Ansätze der Tierethik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Seine Leitfrage

A few years ago, animals crept into the Nuremberg University of Music, settled in, and became an integral part of the university landscape, as they have elsewhere in international academic life. We owe this to Human-Animal Studies, the scientific field of research that examines animals as subjects, but also as active, feeling, and thinking co-creators of a shared world. A whole range of disciplines, from philosophy and animal ethics to biology, from cultural studies to veteri

Carlo Salzani, VAS member and animal ethicist, recently published Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of Imagination. We caught up with him to find out more about this open access book and his motivations for writing it.

We are proud to announce that Vienna Animal Studies member Dr Doris Schneeberger has been shortlisted in the inaugural Siobhan O'Sullivan...