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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"nonhuman animals"”.
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The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals
… I conclude that because there are many sentient nonhuman animals, there are many nonhuman animals that are worthy of moral consideration. Being morally considerable is not equivalent to having substantial moral status. Rachels' moral individualism allows us to make moral decisions based upon the …
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Socioenvironmental and demographic modifiers of aging in nonhuman animals
Across many species, chronological age is the greatest predictor of mortality and the leading risk factor for many non-communicable diseases. However, not all individuals within a species exhibit the same age-related declines in health. For example, some individuals develop early-onset of …
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How bad, if at all, is death for nonhuman animals?
… majority of deaths that occur on Earth are nonhuman animal deaths. This dissertation addresses the underexplored question of whether death is bad for nonhuman animals, and if so, then how bad it is. I start by asking whether death can be bad for nonhuman animals given what we commonly think …
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Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Cosmocentric Transfiguration: Navigating the Eco-Theological Poles of Conservation, Transfiguration, Anthropocentrism, and Cosmocentrism with Regard to the Relationship Between Humans and Individual Nonhuman Animals
… theological writings regarding the place of the nonhuman creation in ethics. The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a taxonomy of four paradigms of eco-theological thought that will categorize these writings and facilitate the identification, situation, and constructive development of 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?
… the basic interests and moral entitlements of nonhumans, and (b) criticism of anthropocentric beliefs, systems and strategies that deny such interests and entitlements and rationalise our collective misuse of nonhuman beings. It begins by presenting evidence that it is not necessary to use …
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Empirical constraints on the evolutionary origins of music
… with a focus on comparative experiments in nonhuman animals. A series of studies in nonhuman primates explores whether they have preferences for sounds that might be related to music perception in humans. A second set of studies explores whether preferences for music can be instantiated in …
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Animals, Science and Gender: Animal Experimentation in Britain, 1947-1965
… of the culture of science and its use of animals in experiments by the British military and in medical scientific research, and its regulation by law, during the period 1947 to 1965. The overall aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the gendered nature of scientific experimentation on …
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The Argument from Species Overlap
… (abbreviated ASO) claims that some human and nonhuman animals possess similar sets of morally relevant characteristics, and are therefore similarly morally significant. The argument stands as a general challenge to moral theories, because many theories hold that all humans possess greater …
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Anger and Punishment: Natural History and Normative Significance
… its relation to psychological traits of other animals, and its influence on action. First, I offer a tentative evolutionary story about anger that can explain retributive intuitions concerning punishment. This explanation undercuts these intuitions as evidence for retributive beliefs by showing …
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Towards a vegan jurisprudence : the need for a reorientation of human rights
… the demands of vegans for basic moral rights for nonhuman animals. The work firstly outlines the ways in which the claims of vegans, under the right to freedom of thought and conscience, are largely unsupported by existing human rights because they are typically outweighed by the wider interests …
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Nico's bubbles : the story of a whale, some crows, and the search for sentience
Humans have long been drawn to the study of nonhuman animal cognitive and emotional intelligence, but have long come up short. Cognitive scientists look for signs of a sense of self, the ability to solve problems, and the capacity for communication in a vast array of nonhuman species, from …
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Spatial Learning and Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, and Rule-Learning in Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli) Across an Elevational Gradient
… however, they remain highly controversial in nonhuman animals and have rarely been studied outside of a laboratory context. In this dissertation, I designed and conducted several spatial cognitive tasks to investigate individual variation in spatial learning and memory, cognitive flexibility, …
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Human Origins: Hidden Nonlinear Dynamics in Brain-Culture Coevolution
… searching for language-like capabilities in nonhuman animals, cultural evolutionists investigating the origins of cumulative cultural evolution, and behavioural ecologists looking to explain mechanisms of cooperation among various human societies. In this thesis, I evaluate the proposal that …
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Toward a Becoming Encounter: Arts-Based Research, Representation and Animal-Human Relations
… in which they relate to the lived experience of animals, (using Lefebvre and content analysis), a theoretical framework is developed aimed at informing future representation and shaping future relationships with nonhuman animals and environments. Toward A Becoming Encounter is a step toward an …
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Ethical issues relating to the 'donation' of human and animal organs for transplantation
… dead according to brain-based criteria and nonhuman animals. In the first chapter I attempt to provide a theoretical underpinning for the brainstem criterion of brain death. I also criticise certain rival theories. In the second chapter I consider what constraints govern what we may do to …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… archive, species panic is often provoked by nonhuman eros, which provokes and threatens the fantasy of human exceptionalism. Theoretically, this project yokes animal studies and posthumanism (Donna Haraway, Dominic Pettman, Kathy Rudy) with queer theory and critical race studies (Mel Y. Chen, …
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Performing folk punk : agonistic performances of intersectionality
… the intersections of race and class, women and nonhuman animals, and queerness and anarchism, as intersecting points of ideological convergence. The secondary goals of this project are two-fold. The first aim is to articulate a performative approach to folk punk music, as a scene worthy of …
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Discounting of Probabilistic Reinforcers by Pigeons
… but has received little attention with nonhuman animals. The few studies that have attempted to obtain probability discounting functions with animals have serious limitations. For example, in Wilhelm and Mitchell's (2008) study with rats, the experienced probabilities often differed …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
… 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 ethics to adequately address …
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
… was widely analogizing Jews to rodents and other nonhuman animals in need of extermination, the accusation that Jewish people might be subhuman, or nonhuman, had been informing non-Jewish perceptions of the Jewish people for hundreds of years. As Jay Geller has detailed, casting Jews as lone …
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