Animal Mind: Science, Philosophy, and Ethics
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Running Head: Ethics, Science, Animal Minds Title: Ethics and the Science of Animal Minds
Ethicists have commonly appealed to science to bolster their arguments for elevating the moral status of nonhuman animals. I describe a framework within which I take many ethicists to be making such appeals. I focus on an apparent gap in this framework between those properties of animals that are part of the scientific consensus, and those to which ethicists typically appeal in their arguments....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Ethics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1382-4554,1572-8609
DOI: 10.1007/s10892-007-9018-3