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Earth Day Lecture

Animal Ethics

She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Some of her notable publications include: “The Power of the Visual,” “Western Environmental Ethics,” “Vices of Inattention,” and “The Moral Responsibilities of Intellectuals.” The NIU community is fortunate to have such a dynamic lecturer return to NIU.

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J. Baird Callicott on Value

Animal Ethics

The value that is attributed to the ecosystem, therefore, is humanly dependent or (allowing that other living things may take a certain delight in the well-being of the whole of things, or that the gods may) at least dependent upon some variety of morally and aesthetically sensitive consciousness. because of its properties ).

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Animal Companions

Animal Ethics

Here are three paragraphs from a recent essay by Roger Scruton : As I suggested, science provides authority for this weird morality only when clothed in moral doctrine. They put less weight on our “moral emotions,” such as embarrassment, remorse, guilt, and penitence. They’re comparatively undemanding.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. It was the first time I went to a wildlife rehabilitators conference. The story of smuggling an eagle to Canada is fiction, as it would be far too stressful even for a bird used to being around people.