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Olson E. T. Was I Ever a Fetus? / trans. from Engl. V. A. Sermaksheva [PDF]
The Standard View of personal identity says that someone who exists now can exist at another time only if there is continuity of her mental contents or capacities. But no person is psychologically continuous with a fetus, for a fetus, at least early in
V. A. Sermaksheva
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Parfit D. We Are Not Human Beings / trans. from Engl. U. V. Dobronravova [PDF]
The article presents a comparative analysis the views on the problem of personality identity by Neo-Lockeanism (Shoemaker, Parfit, Lewis) and Animalism (Olson, Snowden, Carter).
U. V. Dobronravova
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For good or for ill, we have animal bodies. Through them, we move around, eat and drink, and do many other things besides. We owe much—perhaps our very lives—to these ever-present animals. But how exactly do we relate to our animals? Are we parts of them,
Allison Krile Thornton, Andrew M. Bailey
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Partial twinning and the boundaries of a person [PDF]
In special cases of partial twinning, two heads, each supporting a more-or-less normal human mental life, emerge from a single torso. It is often argued that there must be two people in such a case, even if there is only one biological organism.
Olson Eric T.
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To Live is to Devour Others: Food Ethics and Tragedy in Tokyo Ghoul
This paper studies how Ishida Sui’s Tokyo Ghoul creates its typical sense of “tragedy,” by stressing the injustice inherent in every act of eating, and by generalizing the model of nutrition to every ethically laden act.
Christian Frigerio
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Beyond the Bodily View and Psychological View of Human Beings: Human Beings are Rational Animals [PDF]
We are... So, to reframe the inquiry: who are we on a metaphysical level? Which aspects of ourselves are the most universally representative of who we are? How do we fare in the face of the passage of time?
Khanh Trinh
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Le véganisme à l’épreuve de l’animalisme francophone
While the animal rights movement is becoming more politicized in the West, it is primarily understood as a movement promoting veganism. This perception diverges from the aim of animal emancipation espoused by animal rights activists.
Sarah Deligne
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Revisiting the argument from fetal potential. [PDF]
One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and enjoy the valuable life common to persons, entails that its destruction ...
Manninen BA.
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Since its emergence as a recognizable artistic endeavor, heavy metal has brought and enabled an authentic aesthetics in the wider culture: not only has it shaped its own unmistakable sonic “landscape”, but it has also shaped forms of visual ...
Bernard Špoljarić
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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 ...
Browning, Heather, Birch, Jonathan
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