About Alyson Baker

About I live in Whakatū Nelson, Aotearoa. For health reasons I had to retire at the end of 2019, and to keep sane I did an MA. My thesis was accepted 2021: Chimpanzees in Kant's Moral Landscape. I am hoping to start PHD research 2022, again looking at moral imperatives and chimpanzees.
I volunteered at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Uganda in 2017, and returned to Ngamba in 2018, when I also went chimp tracking in Kibale National Park. I was planning to go back to the sanctuary in 2020, and to visit Budongo Forest Reserve in hopes of seeing the chimps who live there, but Covid-19 intervened. I still actively support the Sanctuary.
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Favourite quotations We see chimpanzees by our own light. But by our own darkness
we miss much - Karl Safina
Old and deep-rooted prejudices are of course hard to fight,
because they are self-justifying and, as it were, their own judges - Immanuel Kant
Kant himself would probably not object to the claim that I should not see myself as legislator when immersed in a push towards action, and in danger therefore of using rationalization to cover over
self‐deceit and avoid the demands of morality - Sam Fleischacker
Now. I say, the beautiful is the sign of the morally good - Immanuel Kant
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