Dr Angie Pepper is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton (London, UK). Angie is a moral and political philosopher with expertise in contemporary political philosophy, applied ethics, normative ethics, and analytic feminist philosophy. For the last ten years, Angie has worked primarily on questions of what we owe to other animals as a matter of justice. Angie has written on a wide range of topics, including:
- Nonhuman animals and global distributive justice.
- Nonhuman animals and climate justice.
- The moral significance of sentience.
- Nonhuman animal agency and rights to self-determination.
- The normative significance of nonhuman animal assent and dissent.
- Nonhuman animals and privacy rights.
- Animal rights and multiculturalism.
- The ethics and politics of zoos.
- The ethics of animal shelters.
- The institution of pet-keeping.
Angie’s recent work can be found in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. She is also co-editor, with Valéry Giroux and Kristin Voigt, of The Ethics of Animal Shelters (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Angie’s current research is focused on the normative significance of animal agency (what animals do and why it matters) and the implications of their agency for our practices and institutions. She is especially interested in the legitimacy of practices (e.g., domestication) and institutions (e.g. pet-keeping), which systematically subordinate animals to humans.
For more details about Angie’s research visit her PURE research profile.
