The Baby Fae experiment has highlighted the growing trend in medicine of using animal parts in the treatment of humans. This paper raises the question of the logical and moral justification for these current practices and their proposed expansion. We argue that the Cognitive Capacity Principle establishes morally justified necessary and sufficient conditions for the use of non-human animals in ...

Proponents of a popular view of how individuals respond to ethical issues at work claim that individuals use deliberate and extensive moral reasoning under conditions that ignore equivocality and uncertainty. I discuss the limitations of these “rationalist approaches” and reconsider their empirical support using an alternative explanation from social psychological and sensemaking perspectives. ...

As animal rights becomes a fash­­ ionable topic of debate within the aca­­ demic community, we see a spate of arguments emerging which deny or conflict with the fundamental moral principles of equal consideration of interests. 1 Whatever the motivation for such arguments, the practical result is the putative justification of the continued use, abuse, and slaughter of non-human animals for man's...

In this paper, Anniina Leiviskä examines the moral, political, and epistemic claims of social justice movement known as “decolonizing university” from perspective Jürgen Habermas's distinction between objective normative validity respective notions truth moral rightness. challenges view, held by some representatives decolonization, that are inseparable each other suggests evaluating justificati...

The U.S. presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016 was interpreted by many as a repudiation of the social and economic status quo. Others suggested that support for Trump reflected opposition to social change, as exemplified by the nostalgic slogan “Make America Great Again.” We consider the possibility that many American voters were indeed frustrated by the consequences of global competiti...