Felicitas Selter, PhD

Research associate

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine

OE 5450

Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-8295
Fax: +49 511-532-5650

Email: selter.felicitas@mh-hannover.de

 

Short vita:

Felicitas Selter conducts research on animal ethics, end-of-life ethics (both human and veterinary medicine) and One Health. Before returning to the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine in August 2024, she was Deputy Academic Director at the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice at LMU Munich. Prior to that, she worked as a research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine (MHH) and as a research associate in the working group on veterinary ethics (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover). Felicitas Selter studied Philosophy, Modern German Literature and History of American Literature in Munich and received her doctorate in 2018 with a thesis in the field of Philosophy of Animal Minds and Ethics of Killing at the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences at LMU.

 

Scientific career:

Since 08/2024
Research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine
Hannover Medical School (MHH)
 

02/2023-07/2024
Deputy Academic Director at the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice (ZEPP)
LMU Munich
 

02/2020-02/2021
Research associate at the Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Ethology (ITTN), Working Group Veterinary Ethics
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation (TiHo)
 

01/2019-01/2023
Research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine
MHH
 

08/2018
Doctorate (PhD)
Dissertation: “Planning for the Future: Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live?”
Supervision: Prof. Stephan Sellmaier (LMU), Prof. Markus Wild (University of Basel) and Prof. Benedikt Grothe (GSN)
Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN), LMU
 

10/2013-08/2018
Doctoral studies
GSN, LMU

02/2012
Magister Artium (M.A.)
LMU

10/2006-02/2012
Magister Artium in Philosophy
Minor subjects: Modern German Literature and History of American Literature
LMU
 

 

Scholarship

2013–2016
Doctoral scholarship
GSN, LMU 

 

Publications:

  • Selter, F., Hetzel, T., Kahrass, H., & Mertz, M. (2023). Animal research ethics as interaction of research ethics, animal ethics, and (animal protection) law. ALTEX - Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, 40(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2301171

  • Selter, F., & Salloch, S. (2023). Whose health and which health? Two theoretical flaws in the One Health paradigm. Bioethics, 37(7), 674–682. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13192

  • 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. DOI: 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 
  • Selter, Felicitas (2020). Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live? Paderborn: mentis.
  • 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. In: Animals, 10(1), 124.
  • Selter, F. (2020). How to Count Animals, More or Less. Metapsychology Online Reviews, 24(5). https://metapsychology.net/index.php/book-review/how-to-count-animals-more-or-less/
  • Selter, Felicitas (2014). Mentale Zeitreisen. Inwiefern schädigt ein schmerzloser Tod zukunftsgerichtete Tiere? TIERethik 6(8), 30-48.