The Species-Norm Account of Moral Status

The Species-Norm Account of Moral Status

Abstract: Many philosophers have argued against Singer’s claim that all animals are equal. However, none of these responses have demonstrated an appreciation of the complexity of his position. The result is that all of these responses focus on one of his arguments in a way that falls victim to another. This paper is a critical examination of a possible response to the full complexity of Singer’...

on the status of mixed methods research in applied linguistics

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The Status of Moral Status

This paper investigates whether moral status talk gets us anywhere in our search for answers to questions in the ethics of marginal cases. I consider the usefulness of moral status talk first on the assumption that an individual’s possession of moral status is not a further fact about that individual, and then on the assumption that it is. Finally, I offer an expressivistic interpretation of mo...

Human-animal Chimeras: Human Dignity, Moral Status, and Species Prejudice

The creation of chimeras by introducing human stem cells into nonhuman animals has provoked intense concerns. Addressing objections that appeal to human dignity, I focus in this essay on stem cell research intended to generate human neurons in Great Apes and rodents. After considering samples of dignitybased objections from the literature, I examine the underlying assumption that nonhuman anima...

The moral status of animals.