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We See in a Glass Darkly: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Virtue and Vice Beyond the Species Boundary - Dr Celia Deane-Drummond Keynote 1 Presented at Humans and Other Animals: Multifaith Responses to the Significance and Symbolism of Animals in Science and Religion Dialogue - Science and Religion Forum Conference 2023 Abstract: This lecture will argue that a close analysis of animal ethology enables a richer understanding of humanity's basic tendencies for good or ill, expressed in the twin concepts of virtues and vices. Human morality is not added on to an otherwise brutish nature, rather, it has co-evolved with other animal species, many of whom have sophisticated social lives and associated rules for that behaviour. By way of illustration, I will consider fairness/justice and deception/lying as just two examples of virtue and vice, which illuminate the distinctiveness yet commonality between species. I will also discuss both the risks and benefits of anthropomorphizing to try and understand animal behaviour alongside the philosophical issues that arise when doing so. Celia Deane-Drummond is currently Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. She is honorary Visiting Professor in Theology at the University of Durham, UK. Her work at the interface of theology, ethics and the biological and human sciences stems from her prior academic experience in plant physiology. She is a trustee of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR). She was chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment from 2011-2018. She received the Civitas Dei award from Villanova University in 2020. She has published hundreds of academic, pedagogical or popular articles/chapters and either written or edited 33 books. Her recent single author book publications include, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Human Nature, Evolution and Other Animals (2014), The Evolution of Wisdom Volume I: Theological Ethics Through a Multispecies Lens (2019) and Shadow Sophia: The Evolution of Wisdom Volume II (2021).