Defending Wild Animal Ethics

Animal Eyes: Defending the Coat of Mail

The eyes on the backs of molluscs known as chitons are shadow and motion detectors, the lenses of which are made of birefringent aragonite. These provide a focus both in and out of water.

Animal Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Responsiveness

The concepts of animal, human, and rights are all part of a philosophical tradition that trades on foreclosing the animal, animality, and animals. Rather than looking to qualities or capacities that make animals the same as or different from humans, I investigate the relationship between the human and the animal. To insist, as animal rights and welfare advocates do, that our ethical obligations...

Ethics of animal use

69 “ethics of animal use” by Peter Sandøe and Stine Christiansen of the University of Copenhagen is one of the first books directly designed to be used as a textbook to teach animal ethics in veterinary and animal science courses at university level. the authors have also prepared an internet based learning tool called “Animal ethics Dilemma”, accessible free of charge at http:// ae.imcode.com/...

Arguments about Animal Ethics

Defending 'the four principles' approach to biomedical ethics.