Animal Liberation: A Personal View

Justice, Caring, and Animal Liberation

Carol Gilligan bas described justice and caring as two distinct moral frameworks or orientations to ethical concerns. (Gilligan 1982) The justice framework is characterized by abstraction, the application of general rules ofconduct, an emphasis on restraining aggression, and a concern for consistency and the fair resolution of conflicting claims and interests. The caring framework, on the other...

Animal Liberation and the Great Awakening

rought up in a world whose culture and religion are rooted in the civilizations of the eastern crescent of the Mediterranean Sea, one is led to believe that the progress made in overcoming the prejudice that Peter Singer calls speciesism is of relatively recent development. But this stems from the limitations of the Western background; animal liberation has been known and widely practiced in Fa...

Scrapie--a personal view.

Copulas: A personal view

Copula modeling has taken the world of finance and insurance, and well beyond, by storm. Why is this? In this paper I review the early start of this development, discuss some important current research, mainly from an applications point of view, and comment on potential future developments. An alternative title of the paper would be “Demystifying the copula craze”. The paper also contains what ...

A personal view

In the 20 years from its ®rst issue, BIT has been active in an area of technology with fast and thorough changes. After scanning through 20 volumes, I am surprised to detect that the published scope of BIT has remained almost unchanged, and many statements in the ®rst editorial could be published today without replacing a single word. BIT did not give up its basic principles published in the ®r...