Zavier Chavez
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House: Adams
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Concentration: Philosophy, Secondary in Environmental Science & Public Policy
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Other concentrations considered: History, Government, English, History of Science
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Courses Taken: GenEd 1051 (Logic), Phil 14 (Morality and the Good Life: Intro to Ethics), Phil 177 (Educational Justice), Phil 109 (Early Chinese Ethics), Phil 125 (Beyond Dualism: Descartes and His Critics), Phil 3 (The True and The Good), Phil 147 (Philosophy of Language), Gov94SAF (EJ Safra Undergraduate Ethics Fellowship), Religion 1760 (Animal Ethics: Buddhist Resources for a Post-Human World)
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Thesis: Relating to animal and environmental ethics; applying transitional justice arguments to understand what we owe to factory farmed animals in an ideal world exiting a factory farm food system
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Other academic/research interests: food technology, alternative protein public policy, animal cognition and language, and sustainable food systems
