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Book: Scent of the Missing

4 The Love Of Animals

Experience is the best teacher, we’re told, but sometimes past experience can be misleading. Past experience? It doesn’t take much for them to learn that we need them to find human scent –and not other animals, dropped hamburgers, or unspecified gook. Avoid Hasty Conclusions. What is it that makes us doubt?

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.