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Nonhuman Value: A Survey of the Intrinsic Valuation of Natural and Artificial Nonhuman Entities
To be intrinsically valuable means to be valuable for its own sake. Moral philosophy is often ethically anthropocentric, meaning that it locates...
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The Nonhuman in African Philosophy
This chapter interrogates the conceptualizations of the nonhuman in African thought. To do this, it draws on a Swahili Sufi poem entitled...
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The Nonhuman in African Philosophy
This chapter interrogates the conceptualizations of the nonhuman in African thought. To do this, it draws on a Swahili Sufi poem entitled...
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Particularizing Nonhuman Nature in Stakeholder Theory: The Recognition Approach
Stakeholder theory has grown into one of the most frequent approaches to organizational sustainability. Stakeholder research has provided...
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Integrating Human and Nonhuman Research Ethics
I argue for develo** a unified moral framework for assessing human and nonhuman subjects research. At present, our standards for human subjects...
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Benefitting Nonhuman Animals with AI: Why Going Beyond “Do No Harm” Is Important
AI technologies affect not only humans in many ways but also sentient animals. When investigating the impact of AI on other animals, it is important...
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Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework
This paper provides a systematic account of how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could harm nonhuman animals and explains why animal harms,...
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Of Mice-Rats and Pig-Men: Ethical Issues in the Development of Human/Nonhuman Chimeras
The modern biological definition of a chimera is a single organism composed of cells with multiple distinct genotypes. Chimeras combining human and...
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A Venture into the Realm of the Nonhuman—or How Artistic Performative Methods Can Propose a Practice of Exchanging Knowledge with Matter
This chapter investigates the vitality of matter and inquires if and how artistic performative methods can catalyze the agency of the nonhuman. The...
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The Queer Child as the Nonhuman Other
This chapter continues the section on childhoods. It looks at the queer child. Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of becoming-child is also discussed.
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Shared Intentionality in Nonhuman Great Apes: a Normative Model
Michael Tomasello (
2016 ) prominently defends the view that there are uniquely human capacities required for shared intentions, therefore great apes... -
Is It Time to Phase Out the Use of All Nonhuman Primates in Invasive Research?
The use of some nonhuman primates in invasive research—unlike that on animals more generally—has been severely restricted or banned in much of the...
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The Ethics of Touch and the Importance of Nonhuman Relationships in Animal Agriculture
Animal agriculture predominantly involves farming social animals. At the same time, the nature of agriculture requires severely disrupting,...
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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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HOTT and heavy: higher-order thought theory and the theory-heavy approach to animal consciousness
According to what Birch (
2022 ) calls the theory-heavy approach to investigating nonhuman-animal consciousness, we select one of the well-developed... -
The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with a Focus on Nonhuman Primates
The ethics of using nonhuman animals in biomedical research is usually seen as a subfield of animal ethics. In recent years, however, the ethics of...
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“Strange Kinship”: Romantic-era Women Writers and the Posthuman
Numerous encounters of sense perception and materiality, which decenter the human and open up experience to radical alterity, permeate Romantic-era...
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Metz’s Relational Moral Theory and Environmental Ethics
Metz’s contribution to environmental ethics is a novel theory of moral status, which he argues explains the intuition that although we have direct...
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Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism
In recent years, several cases about the legal personhood of nonhuman animals garnered global attention, e.g. the recognition of ‘basic rights’ for...
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Living in the Flesh: Technologically Mediated Chiasmic Relationships (in Times of a Pandemic)
During the Corona pandemic, it became clear that people are vulnerable to potentially harmful nonhuman agents, as well as that our own biological...
