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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"animal ethics"”.
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Normative Sentimentalism and Animal Ethics
… the issues raised by factory farming and using animals for research. Next, I present the two most well-known arguments regarding the treatment of animals, Peter Singer's preference utilitarianism and Tom Regan's rights theory, as well as key objections to these theories. I follow this by showing …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… I discuss the different kinds of companion animal and human relations, or in other words, and provide an argument that specifies our ethical obligations to the animals we live with—-our ‘pets.’ In the first chapter, I suggest that there are three types of relationships that humans can have …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… problems with contemporary environmental and animal ethics, arguing that most arise from a reliance on heavily anthropocentric concepts such as reason, sentience, and rights. Second, it investigates the possibility of ontology and ethics beyond anthropocentrism, in which relationships between …
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Animal ethics and contemporary art : an exploration of the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices
… question of institutionalised violence against animals. With a relational and holistic vision in mind, this artistic enquiry explores the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices. It is dualistic and anthropocentric thinking that underlies both …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
The contemporary animal rights movement, in extending moral consideration to<br/>nonhuman animals, has in diverse ways already contributed to an expansion of the boundaries of the ethical community and what that may constitute. However, many environmentalists argue there is a failure within animal …
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… clear notions of equality and incorporates an animal ethic. The first part is more meta-ethical in nature, reflecting on notions such as moral intuitions, universalism, consistency and coherence. It demonstrates that moral illusions might exist and offers a method to discover such moral …
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Καταργητισμός εναντίον ευζωισμού: Η επιχειρηματολογία του Gary Francione
… νέου υποτομέα στην ηθική, της ηθικής των ζώων (animal ethics). Το θεωρητικό νήμα, τα τελευταία πενήντα και πλέον χρόνια, έχει αναδείξει τη σύγκρουση δύο μειζόνων προσεγγίσεων, της ωφελιμιστικής αφενός και της δικαιωματικής αφετέρου. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αναπτύσσεται η θεωρία …
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Do we have a duty to prevent predation in the wild?
The animal ethics literature has focused a great deal on the harms that culpable moral agents cause animals, and our duties to prevent this. What is less clear is whether there is a duty to stop nonhuman animals from harming other creatures, considering that they lack moral agency. In this …
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Corticotomy enhanced orthodontics.
… aged 6-8 weeks were obtained from Laboratory Animal Services (Adelaide University) with ethics approval from The University of Adelaide Animal Ethics Committee (Project number: M-2009-172). There were 3 control groups, each with 6 rats: nil intervention; flap surgery; corticotomy procedure. …
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Contemporary Perspectives on the Development of Australia’s Animal Research Regulation
… historical and current practices in Australian animal research. I address: (i) considerations in animal model choice; (ii) Australian regulatory structures in animal research; (iii) transparency in Australian animal research; and (iv) transnational comparisons of these themes. I review the …
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Do humans have special duties and moral obligations towards, rather than ‘rights’ over, nonhuman animals? And if such duties exist, what does our collective treatment of nonhumans say about human morality?
… thesis supports the case against all forms of animal exploitation and speciesist assumptions that prevail in most human societies. It falls broadly into (a) evidential and philosophical bases for recognising the basic interests and moral entitlements of nonhumans, and (b) criticism of …
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Towards an Existential Ethic of Life: The Other, Freedom, and Intersubjectivity
In ethical questions why do we withhold automatic membership in the moral community from non-human forms of life? If a being is involved in the questions being posed, it should begin on the same ground as the others involved in the situation.
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
… Maurice Merleau-Ponty's treatment of non-human ("animal") subjectivities and his later conception of the relationship - or what he calls the "strange kinship'' - between 'the human" and "the animal." I argue that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy - especially the relational ontology of "flesh" that he …
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Occupational hazards and radiation safety in veterinary practice including zoo veterinary practice in Australia
… unpredictable and dangerous than domesticated animals. A comprehensive study on occupational hazards sustained by veterinarians in zoological gardens has not been undertaken in Australia. Only one study had been undertaken in the US amongst zoo veterinarians, while comprehensive may not be able …
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Detection of gasoline from internal tissues for use in determining victim status at the time of a fire
… experiments involved anaesthetizing a pig (with Animal Ethics Approval), exposing the pig to gasoline vapours for 10 minutes, and then euthanizing it. The carcass was clothed with a cotton t-shirt and placed in a house where additional gasoline was poured onto it. The house also contained two …
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Tragic Moral Conflict and Endangered Species Recovery
… aspects of the lives of many individual animals; or 2) allow entire species to go extinct. I call situations in which people face this kind of choice recovery predicaments. Such predicaments seem to be tragic moral conflicts, or situations in which whatever one does—even the right act …
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Der Zoo: Über einen Ausdrucksort ambivalenter Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen und dessen politisches Bildungspotenzial
Diese Masterarbeit zielt darauf ab, exemplarisch an zoologischen Gärten für das politische Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Mensch und Tier zu sensibilisieren sowie die damit einhergehenden Aushandlungsprozesse auf individueller bzw. gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ebene didaktisch anschlussfähig zu machen. …
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MAPK and pro-inflammatory mediators in the walls of brain blood vessels following cerebral ischemia
… reduce infarct volume and improved outcomes in animal models of stroke [91]. On the other hand, to date, clinical trials with anti-inflammatory agents have not been able to demonstrate improved clinical outcome [92, 93]. With better knowledge about which cells and molecules that participate and …