What factors do the attitude to animals consist of?

What Do Animals Care About?

I am going to argue for a thesis that almost nobody in this audience would dispute: animals have things they care about, and the fact that animals care about them has moral significance. However, the lack of disagreement (in this forum, at least) should not disguise the fact that more work needs to be done, both to answer a recent spate ofattempts to deny the thesis and to clarify exactly what ...

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Do animals know what they know ?

Using well-established paradigms for studying animal perception and memory, researchers have begun to ask whether animals can monitor the status of their knowledge in a behaviour al task whether they know what they know. Generally, such metacognitive ability is tested by giving animals the opportunity to avoid (or ‘escape’) a test of memory or perceptual discrimination. The pattern of escapes c...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet