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Loving Somebody: Accounting for Human-Animal Love
In the philosophy of love, the possibility of loving a non-human animal is rarely acknowledged and often explicitly denied. And yet, loving a...
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The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation
This study adopted an empirical method to investigate lay people’s attitudes toward the bioethical issues of human-animal chimeric brains. The...
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How Do Technologies Affect How We See and Treat Animals? Extending Technological Mediation Theory to Human-animal Relations
Human practices in which animals are involved often include the application of technology: some farmed animals are for example milked robotically or...
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Human Animal, Positive Psychology, and Trauma: A Conversation Between Alenka Zupančič and Julie Reshe
Alenka Zupančič and Julie Reshe are discussing the topics of the human animal, positive psychology, and trauma.
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The Botho Perspective on Human and Animal Welfare
This paper is an exploration of the intersection between animals, tourists, and host communities. While the conservation of animals serves the dual...
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African Theories of Human Dignity: Euthanasia, Animal Ethics and Disability
This chapter applies African theories of human dignity to select themes in applied ethics. Specifically, it applies the four theories of human...
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Human–Animal Relations in Business and Society: Advancing the Feminist Interpretation of Stakeholder Theory
Stakeholder theory has largely been anthropocentric in its focus on human actors and interests, failing to recognise the impact of nonhumans in...
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A Yòrùbá Worldview on the Compatibility of Human and Nonhuman Animal Relations (HAR) with Environmental Sustainability
Sustainable development remains a desirable global quest for most comity of nations. This height of desirability is well enshrined within the United...
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Posthuman Affirmative Business Ethics: Reimagining Human–Animal Relations Through Speculative Fiction
Posthuman affirmative ethics relies upon a fluid, nomadic conception of the ethical subject who develops affective, material and immaterial...
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Joint Interaction and Mutual Understanding in Social Robotics
Social robotics aims at designing robots capable of joint interaction with humans. On a conceptual level, sufficient mutual understanding is usually...
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Unfulfilled habits: on the affective consequences of turning down affordances for social interaction
Many pragmatist and non-representational approaches to cognition, such as the enactivist, have focused on the relations between actions, affectivity,...
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Robots and Bionic Systems as Experimental Platforms for the Study of Animal and Human Behaviour
Since the early decades of the XX century, robots have been often used as experimental platforms for the study of animal and human behaviour. This...
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Queer Hunger: Human and Animal Bodies in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood
This chapter examines Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood to understand the novel’s intersection of queer theory and animal studies. Despite the overlap between...
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Santayana: Philosopher for the Twenty-First Century
Scepticism and Animal Faith marks a turning point in Santayana’s philosophy leading to the development of his complete naturalism, and, if followed,...
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Understanding Sophia? On human interaction with artificial agents
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create an increasing similarity between the performance of AI systems or AI-based robots and human...
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From depressed mice to depressed patients: a less “standardized” approach to improving translation
Depression is a widespread and debilitating disorder, but develo** effective treatments has proven challenging. Despite success in animal models,...
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Of Mothers and Dogs
In her series, K-9_topology, Maja Smrekar challenges anthropocentrism by linking biology and culture, particularly addressing the interaction between...
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Interspecies Haptic Sociality: The Interactional Constitution of the Horse’s Esthesiologic Body in Equestrian Activities
This article explores forms of haptic sociality in interspecies interaction. Data examined are taken from a corpus of equine assisted therapy...
