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Review of Federico Zuolo's Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason

Review: Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason, by Federico Zuolo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) 0 Authored by Federico Zuolo 1 Josh Milburn Loughborough University - S Josh Milburn How ... much weight animal welfare must be given in decision-making. Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason has many scholarly merits. Zuolo is well-versed in discussions about public reason and about

Animal-Rights Primitivism: A Vital Needs Argument Against Modern Technology

concern for the plight of non-human animals they do not engage with the animal ethics literature or recent political philosophy and would favor abandoning modern technology even if animals were of no ... /WPP2019_Highlights.pdf Widerquist, Karl and McCall, Grant. 2017. Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy. American Road and Transportation Builders Association. visited March 9 , 2021 . Frequently Asked

Egalitarianism and Animals

The moral consideration of nonhuman animals and the critique of speciesism have been defended by appeal to a variety of ethical theories. One of the main approaches in moral and political philosophy ... political philosophy in the last decades (see for instance Berlin 1955–1956; Williams 1973; Nagel 1979; 1991; Rae et al. 1981; Arneson 1989; Sen 1980; 1992; Temkin 1993; Parfit 1995; McKerlie 1996; Roemer

Arguing for Vegetarianism: (symbolic) ingestion and the (inevitable) absent referent — intersecting Jacques Derrida and Carol J. Adams

, and I argue, informed by Derrida’s philosophy, that it is impossible to aim at turning them into present referents without reinforcing symbolic ingestion by linking symbolic ingestion to epistemic ... or conceptualization. With this, I highlight the ethical importance of discussing symbolic ingestion in animal philosophy. - S Mariana Almeida Pereira Arguing for vegetarianism constitutes a major

Navigated functional alignment total knee arthroplasty achieves reliable, reproducible and accurate results with high patient satisfaction

(KA) have led to the development of the functional alignment (FA) philosophy. This study aims to report the 2-year results of an initial patient cohort in terms of revision rate, PROMs and complications ... philosophy has been developed: functional alignment (FA) [16]. FA differs from MA and KA in that rather than adhering to strict alignment principles that may result in profound intra-operative challenges in

Review of Jeff Sebo's Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

makes the point that we should aim to dissolve conflicts and trade-offs, to the extent possible, through holistic and structural changes. He is optimistic that changing social, political, and economic ... multispecies, multinational, multigenerational society he wants us to aim for will require very significant social, political, and economic change. At a minimum it will require major revisions to our current

Interspecies Political Agency In The Total Liberation Movement

In this paper, we examine the possibility of interspecies political agency at the level of social movements. We ask to what extent animals and humans can be co-participants in one another’s ... Interspecies Political Agency in the Total Liberation Movement 0 Michael P. Allen East Tennessee State University Erica von Essen Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , USA In this paper, we

Skill or Slaughter in ‘Fair Chase:’ What does Animal Resistance Tell us about Modern Sports Hunting

In philosophy of sport, the internal justification for sports hunting is often that the chase empowers hunters to become skilled performers. However, this internal justification for sport hunting is ... 2018; Hribal 2013), including, we argue, the less explored context of sports hunt Erica von Essen and Michael Allen ing. Appealing to criteria from the philosophy of sport, we ask whether the canned

The Metaphysical Turn in Environmental Philosophy

field of environmental philosophy. In particular I want to discuss the way that anthropocentric ethics and biocentric ethics have interacted with metaphysical approaches. I am assuming that metaphysical ... the construction of an environmental philosophy revolves around the metaphysical view of humanity's place in nature. They recommend that "an appropriate metaphysics for the emerging perennial philosophy

Nozick’s Libertarian Critique of Regan

Robert Nozick’s oft-quoted review of Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights levels a range of challenges to Regan’s philosophy. Many commentators have focussed on Nozick’s putative defence of ... philosophy. This should not be surprising. “Political philosophy,” Nozick elsewhere explains, “is mainly the theory of what behavior legitimately may be enforced, and of the nature of the institutional

Centering Animality in Law and Liberation: The Zoopolitics of Reclaiming the Animal in Personhood

offer a critique of the first two strategies and defend the third on both conceptual and political grounds, as most responsive to the requirements of a genuinely liberatory politics. I call this the ... regulated by a human political order that ignores their interests. They are tyrannized, in short” (Donaldson and Kymlicka 2014, 204). Like many other legal systems around the world, the Canadian Criminal

Has the philosophical case for animal liberation been proved? A systematic and narrative review of the philosophical literature 1975-2020.

(Page et al., 2021) . Their emphasis on quantitative data makes systematic reviews less suitable in areas of study such as philosophy which rely more on logic and reflective intuition than empirical ... are essentially arguing for a full vegan position, as defined by the Vegan Society in 1988 (https://www.vegansociety.com/aboutus/history). Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to

Do public healthcare programs make societies more equal? Cross-country evidence on subjective wellbeing

contingent upon two critical factors, namely the allocation of resources to the healthcare sector and the political environment within a country. Behera and Dash [ 5 ] conducted a study amongst South-East ... addition to the demographic variables, the study also includes ‘political position’ as one of the covariates in the model. Political position refers to whether countries are classified as liberal or

The Question of Veganism, the Dangers of Moral Extensionism, and a Pragmatist Ecofeminist Alternative

ethics and social and political philosophy that it makes possible by challenging the individuality of classical liberalism. Since this concept of the individual underwrites Erin McKenna most contemporary ... legal and political systems in the industrialized countries of the West, it is important to understand the weaknesses of this concept of the individual. This individual seeks to gain autonomy and rights

An Interview with Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Angus Taylor interviews Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, authors of Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011). ... by Angus Taylor. Angus Taylor - http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/ Angus Taylor BTS: Your aim is to move the animal-rights debate beyond the field of ethics and into political philosophy

Controversies in total knee arthroplasty: Cochrane evidence or surgeons’ philosophy?

more choices of our philosophy as knee surgeons: - There is an option of cemented versus cementless fixation, where Cochrane finds a smaller displacement of the cemented tibial component but also a ... Cochrane reviews, we surgeons are the ones to choose from these options based on our philosophy and cannot comment using for or against specific methods using hard criteria. We face a certain status—when

Discourse First, Cages Second: A New Locus for Animal Liberation

excluded from social standing and moral consideration while at the same time being included, utilized and discussed within all sectors of society from advertising to philosophy, neuroscience to the pet ... the Animal, its reliance on western notions of political subjectivity, and suggests that the biological lives of particular beings invite us beyond discourse to new, though perhaps costly, conceptions

Religion: A Repertoire of Earth Ethics – A Study on the Ecospiritual Dimensions in Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

of various belief systems like Taoism, Buddhism, Native American Spirituality and Western philosophy. In the poem ‘Finding the Space in the Heart’, Snyder combines human reality with the reality of ... Deep Ecology: Gary Snyder's Ecological Philosophy” . theanarchistlibrary.org. Hogan , Linda. 2003 . “The Feathers” In World Literature .Ed. Linda R Bascara. Manila. Snyder , Gary. 1969 . Mountains and

Humans, Elves, and Greenland Sharks: Against Kagan’s Distributive Argument for Hierarchical Moral Status

Philosophy 40 (sup): 1 - 23 Anderson , Elizabeth ( 2012 ). “Equality.” The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy , David Estlund, ed. Oxford: OUP. Brouwer , Huub and Willem van der Deijl ( 2020 ). “All ... sexism. Whether the tendency I’m discussing is justified is reflected in the debate among egalitarian political philosophers between luck egalitarianism and social egalitarianism. Luck egalitarians (e.g