Graduate Associate, 2011- | Department of Philosophy

PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Jana’s research aims to provide a new case for the ethical treatment of non-human animals premised on an argument from ‘normative uncertainty.’ It has been difficult to convincingly argue that animals are members of the moral community partly because disagreement persists over just what the correct or best criterion of moral standing is. Her research picks up from this point of indeterminacy and explores whether we have moral duties towards animals despite intertheoretic disagreement about what grounds moral standing.

Jana holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and Gender and Women’s Studies from Dalhousie University.