From Animals’ Right to Applied Ethic

The Ethic of Care and the Problem of Wild Animals

The Ethic of Care and the Problem of Wild Animals Grace Clement Recently, a number of feminists concerned with the welfare of nonhuman animals have challenged the prevailing approaches to animal defense theory. A collection of essays, Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals, challenges the "rights" or "justice" approaches usually taken by animal defense theori...

Animals have a right to life.

State and church must be separated; therefore the legal and the judicial system may not be based on religious dogmas but instead must be grounded on empirical-rational ethics, which are amenable to consensus. To achieve this, consciousness must be described in scientific terms and the anthropocentric view of animals as fundamentally different to humans must be criticised on a factual basis. It ...

The Protestant Ethic versus the "New Ethic"

UAVs Applied to the Counting and Monitoring of Animals

The advantages of intelligent approaches such as the conjunction of artificial vision and the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently emerging. This paper presents a focused on obtaining scans of large areas of livestock system. Counting and monitoring of animal species can be performed with video recordings taken from UAVs. Moreover the system keeps track of the number of ani...

We Want From a Robot Ethic ?

There are at least three things we might mean by “ethics in robotics”: the ethical systems built into robots, the ethics of people who design and use robots, and the ethics of how people treat robots. This paper argues that the best approach to robot ethics is one which addresses all three of these, and to do this it ought to consider robots as socio-technical systems. By so doing, it is possib...