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Why do Chapman & Huffman think humans are not different?
Animal Sentience, 2021 This commentary discusses various shortcomings in Chapman & Huffman’s (2018) denial of differences between human beings and animals and the ethical consequences they think turn on this.
Nick Zangwill
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When some animals are more equal than others
Animal Sentience, 2020 Mikhalevich & Powell (2020) argue that we should attribute moral standing not only to vertebrates but also to certain invertebrates. M&P also object on ethical grounds to policies of scientific funding agencies that encourage scientists to replace ...
Steve Clarke
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Ethics of technology needs more political philosophy [PDF]
Communications of the ACM, 2019 Incorporating considerations of reasonable pluralism, individual agency, and legitimate authority.
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Humans are superior — by human standards
Animal Sentience, 2019 Chapman & Huffman argue that humans are neither unique nor superior to other animals. I believe they are right in claiming that we are no more unique than any other species, but wrong in assuming that this means we cannot be ranked as superior.
Susana Monsó
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Integrating evolution into the study of animal sentience
Animal Sentience, 2022 Like many others, I see Crump et al. (2022) as a milestone for improving upon previous guidelines and for extending their framework to decapod crustaceans.
Walter Veit
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Political Philosophy and Business Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 In this discussion, we consider political philosophy as a branch of philosophy studying the way human communities and societies create and maintain various forms of governance for the good of constituent individuals and groups. Governance as a system of conducting the affairs of the polis , i.e., the participating community of citizens, is the basis ...
Neesham, Cristina, Macklin, Rob
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Animal welfare at home and in the wild
Animal Sentience, 2016 In recent work, economist Yew-Kwang Ng suggests strategies for improving animal welfare within the confines of institutions such as the meat industry.
Kyle Johannsen
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Are some animals also moral agents?
Animal Sentience, 2019 Animal rights philosophers have traditionally accepted the claim that human beings are unique, but rejected the claim that our uniqueness justifies denying animals moral rights.
Kyle Johannsen
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From crisis to meaning: creativity in the Biblical narrative of Eve and the inversion by F. Kafka
Creativity Studies, 2018 The possibilities of creativity in human life depend on discovering the meaning of life. Franz Kafka’s story Before the Law evokes how every attempt at finding this meaning, represented as the law, comes with a crisis and can result in failure.
Luc Anckaert, Roger Burggraeve
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Does sentience come in degrees?
Animal Sentience, 2020 This commentary is about whether sentience, or what philosophers call “phenomenal consciousness,” comes in degrees.
Andrew Y. Lee
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