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Styles of Action

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discussions of style in contemporary analytic philosophy have been confined almost exclusively to aesthetics, yet many bodily actions seem to exhibit styles as well. We can have an aggressive or a placid style of driving; a sloppy or a meticulous style of washing the dishes; an idiomatic or a weird way of playing jazz.
Noam Tiran
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Protection of animals against cruelty with a focus on large-scale farms, experimental animals and circuses

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53 Protection of animals against cruelty with a focus on large-scale farms, experimental animals and circuses Abstract This thesis examines the legal protection of animals against cruelty in general and in the field of large-scale farms, experimental ...
Paulusová, Kristýna
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Two Moralities of Recognition

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morality of recognition maintains that moral norms have their authority in virtue of the ways in which those norms enact an ideal moral relationship. T. M. Scanlon argues that this approach can yield an account of the distinctive force of morality and an attractive account of moral motivation. We find this approach to theorizing about morals
Barry Maguire, Oded Na'aman
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Fittingness and Consequentialism

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires fit their objects. Others do not. This paper considers whether consequentialist ethics can plausibly be reconciled with the fittingness of beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires.
Brad Hooker
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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