Knowledge about animal suffering is too rarely used
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Educated Folly About Animal Minds and Animal Suffering
Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering? Voltaire (1694-1778)
متن کاملPolicy is political; our ideas about knowledge translation must be too.
This article argues that in public health research, standard approaches to knowledge translation are based on (1) an invalid model of the relationship between research knowledge and policy and (2) an oversimplified concept of ‘knowledge’. Standard approaches tend to focus primarily on communicating research knowledge to policy makers in order to increase the impact of research on policy making....
متن کاملPersonal Knowledge Elaboration and Sharing: Presentation is Knowledge too
In this paper, we propose to consider the construction, elaboration and sharing of “personal knowledge”, as it is developed during an activity and at the same time sustains that activity. We distinguish three poles in personal knowledge: specific, generic and presentation knowledge. The elaboration process consists in the building of knowledge of each kind, but also in the circulation of inform...
متن کاملA Rarely Discussed Ethically Powerful Idea: the Burden of Suffering
Professor Resnik fairly acknowledges that the trans fat ban is effective, proportional, and publicly justified. Instead, he challenges the ban because it is not necessary and is not the least restrictive alternative. This represents a fundamental misapplication of the ethics framework. These two criteria cannot apply to all public health interventions, but only to those that pose significant li...
متن کاملToo much ado about belief
Three commitments guide Dennett’s approach to the study of consciousness. First, an ontological commitment to materialist monism. Second, a methodological commitment to what he calls ‘heterophenomenology.’ Third, a ‘doxological’ commitment that can be expressed as the view that there is no room for a distinction between a subject’s beliefs about how things seem to her and what things actually s...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/417587a