Dennis Papadopoulos - philosophy

I’m Dr. Dennis Papadopoulos (he/him/his), a professional philosopher! My work focuses on:

The Evolution of Collaboration
Forming Interspecies Community (maybe with AI?)
Indigenous & African Animal/Environmental Ethics
Empathy and Collective Emotions

I received my Philosophy Ph.D. from York University, Toronto, in October 2021 after defending my dissertation Politically Engaged Wild Animals. In March 2023, I finished a Postdoc with the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.

Sample Publications

Forthcoming “Mindshaping in human-elephant relations” Coauthor B. Tinklenburg
For (T. Zawidzki Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping 2025

2023 “Ubuntu and Elephant Communities,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Co-Authored with Birte Wrage and Judith Benz-Schwarzburg.

2023 “Zhuangzi and Collaboration in Animals: A Critical Conceptual Analysis of Shared Intentionality” Frontiers of Psychology, Special Issue on Shared Intentionality.

2023 “Indigenizing Wild Animal Sovereignty,” Journal of Social Philosophy (first published 2022)

2023 “Shared intentionality in nonhuman great apes: A normative model,” Review of Philosophy and Psychology (first published 2021)

2022 “How mindshaping and social maintenance supports shared intentions in humans and nonhuman animals,” Humana Mente, Special Issue on Animal Responsibility. Co-authored with Kristin Andrews.