10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2016
A press release about the study likened the contrast to “the differences between humans with and without freckles.”) The moral of the story: As our knowledge of genetics grows, and this tool becomes more accessible to more researchers, things we think we know about birds may change.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). You will, therefore, agree with Martin about moral vegetarianism but not about Christianity. One is health.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Moral philosophers, even those belonging to the Critical School [the followers of Kant and Fries], have often represented duties to animals as indirect duties to oneself or to other men. Norbert Guterman [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956], 137 [footnote inserted into text in brackets]) Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983])
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2012
The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., But utilitarianism is not the theory its initial reception by the animal rights movement may have suggested.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
They are dismissed by some as a "Eurocentric illusion," and praised by others as the answer to the problem of humanity's survival. Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings. By the way, one answers questions and solves problems.
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