Former Summer Fellow Joshua Duclos Authors Article on Morality of Hunting

Joshua Duclos, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article for The Conversation on the morality of hunting.

In the article, Duclos identifies three rationales for hunting – therapeutic, subsistence, and sport – and explores various ethical objections to these rationales, such as the infliction of unnecessary harm, questions surrounding a hunter’s character, and the concept that hunting is “unnatural”. Click here to read the article.

The article follows Duclos’ research last summer as a Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, when he wrote a paper on the ethics of wilderness preservation and the welfare of wildlife. He also served as a panelist for a Pardee Center seminar in October 2016 on conservation in urban and suburban landscapes, which focused particularly on the ethics of ongoing deer population control efforts in Massachusetts and elsewhere.

The Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program is an interdisciplinary 10-week research and writing fellowship open to all master’s and doctoral students from across Boston University. The call for applications for the 2017 class, which runs from May 30 to August 4, will be announced in late January.