Felicitas Selter, PhD

Felicitas Selter has been Deputy Academic Director of the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice at LMU since February 2023. Previously, she was a research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School and at the Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. During her doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences at LMU, she investigated the question of killing (future-oriented) animals, based on Jeff McMahan's Time-Relative-Interest Account. Her research interests are particularly in animal ethics, end-of-life ethics (both in medical and veterinary ethics), Philosophy of Animal Minds, and One Health.

Selected Publications

Selter, F., Persson, K., Kunzmann, P., Neitzke, G. (2023). End-of-life decisions: A focus group study with German health professionals from human and veterinary medicine. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1044561

Nelke, A., Persson, K., Selter, F., & Weber, T. (2022). Veterinarians as key intermediaries in sustainability discourse(s). In Transforming food systems: Ethics, innovation and responsibility (pp. 350–355). Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-939-8_54

Persson, K., Selter, F., Kunzmann, P., & Neitzke, G. (2022). Killing Kira, Letting Tom Go?—An Empirical Study on Intuitions Regarding End-of-Life Decisions in Companion Animals and Humans. Animals, 12(19), 2494. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12192494

Selter, F., Persson, K., Neitzke, G. (2022). Moral distress and euthanasia: what, if anything, can doctors learn from veterinarians? British Journal of General Practice 72(719), 280-281. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp22X719681

Selter, F., Persson, K., Risse, J. et al. (2021). Dying like a dog: the convergence of concepts of a good death in human and veterinary medicine. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 25, 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10050-3

Persson, K., Selter, F., Neitzke, G., Kunzmann, P. (2020). Philosophy of a “good death” in small animals and consequences for euthanasia in animal law and veterinary practice. Animals 10(1), 124. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10010124

Selter, F. (2020). Planning for the Future. Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live? Paderborn: Mentis.

Selected Talks

2022

“Nonhuman health: A proposal to navigate anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric conceptions of One Health”, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME), Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, IT

“Gaining perspective in animal research ethics: The moral status of animals and the social value of biomedical research”, 16. World Congress of Bioethics, Universität Basel, CH

“Respecting Fido’s autonomy? What we (don‘t) owe to animals in end-of-life decisions”, Workshop „What we owe to animals” der Universitäten Fribourg und Basel, CH

“Two types of planning: A proposal to reconcile opposing views in the mental time travel debate”, Kolloquium der Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (SSEA)

2021

“Patient Autonomy in Medical and Veterinary Ethics: The Problematic Extension of an Ambiguous Concept”, 25. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg