
Founding Member

Erich Linder
Ethicist and Philosopher
Erich Linder is undertaking his PhD at the University of Vienna and a guest researcher at the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine. His research focuses on descriptive approaches to moral philosophy. He is particularly interested in applying ideas from the Wittgensteinian and the constitutivist tradition to practical problems in animal ethics. He is also interested in moral psychology and the relation between psychoanalsiys and ethics.
Email: erich.linder@vetmeduni.ac.at
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Linder, E. 2025. What is it like to see an animal? Self-examination and the moral relevance of ordinary descriptions of animals. In: Leibowitz, U.D., Coko, K., Nevo, I. (eds) Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits. Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 141-157.