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Introduction
The merit of this project incorporates an interdisciplinary approach utilizing formal art analysis as method and art historical criticism in choosing...
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Wild Animals
This chapter argues that wild animals can be claim-holders, and, as a consequence, that humans have a moral duty to consider their plight. First, it...
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A co-citation analysis of cross-disciplinarity in the empirically-informed philosophy of mind
Empirically-informed philosophy of mind (EIPM) has become a dominant research style in the twenty-first century. EIPM relies on empirical results in...
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The Donation of Human Biological Material for Brain Organoid Research: The Problems of Consciousness and Consent
Human brain organoids are three-dimensional masses of tissues derived from human stem cells that partially recapitulate the characteristics of the...
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Playing God: Symbolic Arguments Against Technology
In ethical reflections on new technologies, a specific type of argument often pops up, which criticizes scientists for “playing God” with these new...
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Animal sentience and the Capabilities Approach to justice
Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals calls upon humanity to secure for all sentient beings the central capabilities they need to flourish. This...
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Imagination: A New Foundation for the Science of Mind
After a long hiatus, psychology and philosophy are returning to formal study of imagination. While excellent work is being done in the current...
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Ethical Challenges in Mariculture: Adopting a Feminist Blue Humanities Approach
As mariculture—the cultivation of aquatic organisms in marine environment—intensifies to meet the demands of sustainable blue growth and national...
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Absent Referents: Bristly Brushes
This chapter heightens the construct of nothing/something into a binary of visible/invisible by examining the swine and the squirrel, in absentia—in...
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Food Ethics as Relational Ethics
This chapter reviews and discusses the problems that an ethics of eating and drinking has to address. First, it shows that such form of ethics falls...
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The inviolateness of life and equal protection: a defense of the dead-donor rule
There are increasing calls to reject the dead-donor rule and permit organ donation euthanasia in organ transplantation. I argue that the fundamental...
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Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?
The article examines five controversial views, expressed in Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal , Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer’s Should the Baby Live?...
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Decentering Humanism in Philosophy and the Sciences: Ecologies of Agency, Subversive Animism, and Diffractional Knowledge
The idea that humans are clearly distinguished from other animals and from the natural world in general is a cornerstone of European philosophy and...
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Human Agency and Ecology
A precondition for understanding current ecology Ecologies is to understand how human agency influences ecology Ecologies . In this chapter we...
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Steering a Course Between Haidt’s Intuitionism and Singer’s Austere Rationalism
In earlier chapters we argued that all our moral beliefs are subject to the ‘Tribunal of Reason’. But we also claimed that the position supported by...
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Survey Data on Harassment and Discrimination in the Anymal Activist Community
This chapter presents and analyzes data from an international, online Qualtrics survey (2017–2020) collecting data on harassment and discrimination...
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Evidence of Systemic Sexism and Male Privilege in Anymal Activism Prior to #MeToo
Chapter 7 analyzes interconnections between 12 empowered and privileged men and 10 key anymal activist organizations (with which one or more of them...
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Ethics in Postmodern Secular Societies: The Context for Ethics and Organizations
Because of their nature as secular one will find, in most secular societies, many different methods for ethical justification and appeals. One...
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Human Value and Human Dignity
Having introduced the major ethical theories, we now turn to a discussion of human value. Why should pharmacists and pharmacy students care about...
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Laying Down with the Lamb: Abolitionist Veganism, the Rhetoric of Human Exceptionalism, and the End of Creation
As more people become interested in veganism, we need to make the moral case for this position to both the animal rights community and the larger...