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Philosophy Compass, 2022 Abstract‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to the capacity to have subjective experiences with a positive or negative valence, such as pain or pleasure. We review recent controversies regarding sentience in fish and invertebrates and consider the deep methodological challenge posed by these
Browning, Heather, Birch, Jonathan
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Between the Species: An Online Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals, 2010 Speciesism is the wrong of not acknowledging the moral qualities that non-human animals possess that are similar or equivalent or even superior to the moral qualities that human beings possess. However, since it is manifestly clear that no one thinks that apes are in any way obligated to human beings, it clearly cannot be a form of speciesism to be ...
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Le Portique, 2009 Dans la tradition philosophique, on trouve plusieurs definitions de l’homme. La celebre definition aristotelicienne, zoon logon echon (animal doue du langage ou animal rationnel) fournit le paradigme ainsi que la methode de toutes les definitions successives.
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ACTIVELY ANIMATED ANIMALS [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004 ![Figure][1] `Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion.' Gullaume de Salluste du Bartas Locomotion is one of the true hallmarks of animal biology. The ability to self-propel the body and move it large distances without reliance on external forces from wind, waves, or ...
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ACM Computing Surveys, 1985 Computer animation may be defined as a technique in which the illusion of movement is created by displaying on a screen or recording on a device a series of individual states of a dynamic scene. The key issue of computer animation is defining motion, commonly known as motion control methods (MCMs).
Magnenat Thalmann, N, Thalmann, D
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010 AbstractThe main topics in the study of animal cognition are reviewed with special reference to direct links to human, and in particular developmental, cognitive sciences. The material is organized with regard to the general idea that biological organisms would be endowed with a small set of separable systems of core knowledge, a prominent hypothesis ...
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Animal Culture and Animal Welfare
Philosophy of Science, 2022 AbstractFollowing recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live.
Simon Fitzpatrick, Kristin Andrews
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Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 2020 Tetanus is a neurologic disease of humans and animals characterized by spastic paralysis. Tetanus is caused by tetanus toxin (TeNT) produced by Clostridium tetani, an environmental soilborne, gram-positive, sporulating bacterium. The disease most often results from wound contamination by soil containing C. tetani spores.
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Perpetrators, Animals, and Animality
, 2019 The aim of this chapter is to bring Perpetrator Studies into conversation with the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies. The chapter begins with a discussion of a recent hoax revolving around the role of guard dogs at the Berlin Wall. Contrary to the hoaxers’ intentions, I argue that the incident serves as an object lesson on the importance of the
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