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Overcoming inertia to deliver sentience policy commensurate with sentience science
Animal Sentience, 2022 Rowan et al’s target article makes clear that meaningful change in policy and practice to protect animals has failed to progress in lockstep with scientific understanding of their sentience and needs.
Claire Bass
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Animal Sentience, 2020 There is no way to include invertebrates within the moral sphere without being “extreme” — to use Mikhalevich & Powell’s term. This is because of the profound difficulties in correctly attributing sentience.
Eric Dietrich, Tara Fox Hall
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Plant sentience and the case for ethical veganism
Animal Sentience, 2023 Does the possibility of plant sentience pose a problem for ethical veganism? It has not yet been demonstrated that plants are sentient (i.e., that they can feel).
Josh Milburn
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Philosophy, ecology and elephant equality
Animal Sentience, 2020 The considerable conservation research on environmental problems and climate change tends to focus on species “biodiversity” rather than individuals. Individuals of the same species get categorized as “wild” or “captive”, with the latter often omitted ...
Rebekah Humphreys
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Newman and Wittgenstein on the Will to Believe: Quasi-Fideism and the Ground of Religious Certainty
ReligionsIn this article, I argue that Newman’s emphasis on a gestaltic model of reasoning and the role played by the imagination in informal reasoning is a fruitful starting point for an exploration of convergence between the Grammar of Assent and Wittgenstein’s
Modesto Gómez-Alonso
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The Criteria for the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (With an Emphasis on the Ideas of Imam Khomeini) [PDF]
سیاست متعالیه, 2020 The purpose of the present study is to explain the criteria for the guardianship of the Islamic Jurist with an emphasis on the political ideas of Imam Khomeini. To this aim, descriptive analysis was used in this study to make an enquiry about the essence
Ali Akbari Moallem
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Fish sentience and the precautionary principle
Animal Sentience, 2016 Key (2016) argues that fish do not feel pain based on neuroanatomical evidence. I argue that Key makes a number of conceptual, philosophical, and empirical errors that undermine his claim.
Robert C. Jones
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Why grateful refugees are epistemically harmed
Ethics & Global PoliticsThe belief that refugees should demonstrate gratitude is prevalent in popular culture and also noticeable in political theory, especially when questioning whether refugees are required to adhere to the laws of their host country. This paper addresses the
Leonardo B. S. Menezes
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Scepticism about moral superiority
Animal Sentience, 2019 Chapman & Huffman suggest that we might change people’s behavior toward animals by resisting an argument that because humans are intellectually superior to animals, they are also morally superior to animals.
Derek Ball, Benjamin Sachs
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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