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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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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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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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Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief
, 2016 In this book the author argues that the Falasifa, the Philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age, are usefully interpreted through the prism of the contemporary, western ethics of belief.
Booth, Anthony Robert +1 more
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The Principle of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy: Its Rise and Fall [PDF]
, 2018 In this essay, Pauline Kleingeld notes that Kant’s Principle of Autonomy, which played a central role in both the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason, disappeared by the time of the Metaphysics of Morals.
Kleingeld, Pauline, Watkins, Eric
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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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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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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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The ethics of nudging:An overview [PDF]
, 2020 So-called nudge policies utilize insights from behavioral science to achieve policy outcomes. Nudge policies try to improve people's decisions by changing the ways options are presented to them, rather than changing the options themselves or ...
Bart Engelen +6 more
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