Catia Faria

Catia Faria
Catia Faria
Born	1980 (age 45–46); Porto, Portugal
Education
Education	University of Porto (B.A. in Philosophy); University of Barcelona (M.A. in Cognitive Sciences); Pompeu Fabra University (PhD in Moral Philosophy);
Thesis	Animal Ethics Goes Wild: The Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2016)
Doctoral advisors	Paula Casal, Oscar Horta, Joao Cardoso Rosas
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of Minho; Pompeu Fabra University; Complutense University of Madrid;
Language	English, Spanish, Portuguese
Main interests	Animal ethics; applied ethics; environmental ethics; feminist ethics; normative ethics; population ethics; speciesism; wild animal suffering;
Notable works	Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature (2022)
Notable ideas	Xenozoopolis

Catia Faria (born 1980) is a Portuguese moral philosopher and activist for animal rights and feminism. She is assistant professor in Applied Ethics at the Complutense University of Madrid, and is a board member of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics. Faria specialises in normative and applied ethics, especially focusing on how they apply to the moral consideration of non-human animals. In 2022, she published her first book, Animal Ethics in the Wild: Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature.