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Andrew Fenton

Professor

Andrew Fenton

Teaching

  • Winter 2026
    PHIL 2480
    RELS 2810

Office Hours

If you need to reach me, please use my email address: atf@dal.ca


Email: atf@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3538
Mailing Address: 
Room 3131, Marion McCain Building
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6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Animal Ethics
  • Naturalized epistemology
  • Neuroethics
  • Philosophy of animal behaviour and cognition

Education

  • PhD, Philosophy, University of Calgary
    Thesis title: "Aping the substantive epistemic subject? In search of epistemic equals in the genus Pan."
  • M.A., Philosophy, 国民彩票
    Thesis title: Does Fido know that the cat is on the mat? An account of, and response to, Externalist Reliabilism."
  • B.A., (Hons) Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Acadia University
    Thesis title: "Plantinga and the Rationality of Theistic Belief."

PUBLICATIONS

Select Journal Publications:

  • Vaughan Black, Andrew Fenton, and Elisabeth Ormandy.听.听Animals聽2022; 12(6): 770
  • Vaughan Black and Andrew Fenton. Humane Driving. The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 2021; 34(1): 11-28.
  • Andrew Fenton. Holding animal-based research to our highest ethical standards: Re-seeing two emergent laboratory practices and the ethical significance of research animal dissent. ILAR Journal 2020; online.
  • Andrew Fenton. A moderate Buddhist animal research ethics. Developing World Bioethics 2019; 19(2): 106-15.
  • Fenton, Andrew.听 "Can a Chimp Say "No"? Re-envisioning Chimpanzee Dissent in Harmful Research". Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2014;23(2):130-139
  • Fenton, Andrew. "Neuroscience and the Problem of Other Animal Minds: Why It May Not Matter So Much for Neuroethics."聽 The Monist 2012; 95(3): 463-485
  • Krahn, Timothy and Fenton, Andrew.听 "The Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism and the Potential Adverse Effects for Boys and Girls with Autism."聽 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2012; 9(1):93-103.
  • Fenton, Andrew.听 "On the need to redress an inadequacy in animal welfare science: toward an internally coherent framework."聽 Biology and Philosophy 2012; 27(1):73-93.
  • Krahn, Timothy and Fenton, Andrew.听 "Autism, Empathy and Questions of Moral Agency."聽 Journal