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2025, Springer

Global justice is a theoretical stand that addresses the issue of just distribution of benefits and burdens across the world and looks at the viability of the institutions required to secure such a just distribution.

2025

This paper explores feminist and anti-speciesist critiques of the Anthropocene concept, which, while raising awareness of global ecological crises, often universalizes human responsibility and obscures the structural power dynamics behind environmental emergency. Drawing on thinkers such as Jason W. Moore, Françoise Vergès, and Donna Haraway, the paper argues that capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and speciesism-not "humanity" as a whole-are the primary forces driving ecological devastation. The paper critiques the dominant binary of Humanity/Nature and highlights how capitalism produces "Cheap Nature" by exploiting unpaid labor and resources, both human and extrahuman. Through feminist and anti-speciesist lenses, it reveals the gendered, racialized, and speciesist logics underlying this exploitation. This work finally calls for a radical transformation of socioecological relations through solidarity, multispecies justice, and alternative narratives that center care, kinship, and emancipation.

2025, Artículo de Revista Chilena de Derecho Animal

RESUMEN: El presente artículo busca analizar la consideración que tiene el Derecho respecto a otras vidas que no son humanas, como sucede con los animales y otras formas que podrían darse con el avance de la inteligencia artificial.... more

2025, International journal of english, literature and social science

Only a world without state boundaries could be a just world. It is difficult to defend the view that state boundaries set the limits of distributive justice because it is difficult to say why differences in citizenship should count as... more

2025, International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences

2025, Biblical Interpretation

2025

Moving beyond debates about the ethics of animal consumption to focus on animals' intimate lives, Beth A. Berkowitz examines the contribution of religious traditions and sacred texts to contemporary conversations about animals. Reading... more

2025

This paper presents lists of books about pets and pet care, a list of pet theme ideas, an anticipation guide, and a list of community and professional resources. The 23-item list of books about pets and pet care (published between 1940 and 1994) is divided into sections on teacher's choices, nonfiction, recent books, and teacher resources. The 21-item list of pet theme ideas offers suggestions for class activities. The paper then presents a description of the purpose and procedures of the "anticipation guide," which creates a mismatch between what students may know and what is presented in the text. The paper also presents an anticipation guide about cats. The paper concludes with a list of information available from six local-level and four national-level community and professional resources. (RS)

2025, Meanings of Pain

Abstract The biomedical literature on animal pain is thin, despite widespread reliance on animal models in pain medicine. The International Association for the Study of Pain distinguishes sharply between nociception and pain. Pain, says the IASP, is "always subjective" and "always a psychological state." It traffics with meaning. This essay distinguishes human pain from the pain of animals and concludes that animal pain is largely unknowable: an instance of the otherness of the other. Biases against racial and ethnic minorities demonstrated in the undertreatment of pain suggest that dismissive attitudes toward animal pain reflect wider anthro-pocentric and biomedical difficulties in responding to otherness. The difficulties of understanding animal pain would advise caution in clinical applications of research based on animal models. It also suggests—in a speculative conclusion —that we will not effectively address human pain until we have already adequately addressed the other-ed pain of animals.

2025, Journal of Medical Ethics

Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked byfears ofan American-style medical malpractice crisis. What is required is a framework within which the debate can resume. Thispaperproposes such aframework byfocusing on the compensation and deterrence objectives and placing them in the wider context ofthe social costs ofproviding medical services. The framework is then used to assess and compare the effectiveness ofdiffering approaches. In particular, the American and British experiences oflitigation, including the concept of'defensive medicine', are evaluated. Also discussed briefly are alternatives to court-based complaints procedures including 'no-fault' schemes, professional ethics and internal complaints mechanisms. The general proposition underlying the goal of deterrence is that the quality of medical services will be

2025, YAZIT Journal of Cultural Sciences

In this study, I critically examined conventional ethnographic approaches that have, since the 19th century, overlooked the agency of non-human animals, using ethnographic field data I gathered in an equestrian club. At the same time, while exploring the possibilities of conducting a multispecies ethnography, I traced anthropocentrism through the spatial arrangements and language-based classifications humans apply to horses. This research emerged as part of my one-year undergraduate thesis project. I spent approximately five to six months actively in the field, during which I conducted participant observation, interacted with around 70 individuals within the club environment, and carried out 18 in-depth interviews. The entire process was conducted with the approval of the relevant ethics committee. In the field, I evaluated human actions and discourses as data, while also striving to include the interactions of horses with the space, with humans, and with their own kind. Throughout the research process, I also questioned how my own exist-ence as a human might affect the study, how far the boundaries of reflexivity could be expanded, and whether being human might create barriers in a multispecies ethnograph-ic study. Through the observations presented at the end of this study, I aimed to offer a critical perspective on earlier ethnographic works and contribute to the development of a more sensitive reflexivity against anthropocentrism in future research.

2025, Animal Sentience

We are grateful to all the commentators who engaged with our target article. Some commentators have offered important insights into our proposed design and methods for legally intervening on behalf of futurity. Others have focused on theoretical considerations central to our proposal for multispecies justice and trusteeship. All have inspired modifications and further elaboration of our initial proposal. In this Response, we engage with the commentaries, integrating their suggestions, striving for convergence and complementarity, but also discussing points of divergence with our proposed framework where necessary. There is substantial overlap in the points of view of the three co-authors, but there are also differences. Section 1 is more reflective of the views of AT and Section 2 is more reflective of the views of FJS-A and WL. Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila's research is on the integration and application of environmental and animal ethics to coexistence with wildlife and the evaluation of the effectiveness of policies and interventions to prevent conflicts with large carnivores. His main objective is to embed in the conservation and wildlife fields the much-needed acknowledgement of moral standing for individual non-human animals. Website Adrian Treves, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and founder of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab, is an independent researcher and advocate for future generations, for science, and for the sovereign authority of the public. His research is on ecology, law, and human dimensions of ecosystems in which crop and livestock ownership overlaps with the habitat of large carnivores from coyotes up to grizzly bears. Website

2025, Law & Society Review

How do courts award noneconomic damages? Does it matter if the state is the defendant? This article addresses these questions in the context of medical malpractice appeals to the Spanish Supreme Court. Moreover, this study provides the first empirical analysis of the quantification of noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases in administrative courts, where the state is the defendant, and in civil courts. This separation of jurisdictions is a common feature in civil law tradition countries. Yet, critics of this separation in general, and specialized courts in particular, argue that parties might be subject to different treatments and that similar cases might reach different outcomes, namely in terms of the quantification of damages. A consistent result of this paper is that no significant differences between noneconomic damages in civil and administrative appeals were found. The separation of jurisdictions does not necessarily imply that courts reach different outcomes, even when the state is the defendant. Citizens should not refrain from bringing their claims forward against the state, a more powerful party. In the current era of increasing juridification and judicialization of modern life (Ginsburg 2009; Hirschl 2006; Hirschl 2011), it is crucial for society that citizens and other parties litigating with the state are not disadvantageously treated.

2025, „Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies” Nr 1 (15)/2025

The Left and Animals: Tracing Critique This article attempts a preliminary exploration of the relationship between a broadly understood leftist and progressive thought and the ideas of animal rights, along with the demands of pro-animal... more

2025, Academia.edu

In this scientific-philosophical reflection, we explore three hypothetical models of the human species:
- Homo veganus — the compassionate and spiritual being, aligned with life;
- Homo carnivorus — the evolved predator, focused on dominance and strength;
- Homo omnivorus — the adaptive, complex, and contradictory human, much like we are today.

2025

ATLARI VURMAK 1972'de izlemiştim Jane FONDA'nın ATLARI DA VURURLAR filmini İstanbul sinemalarında… Oldukça etkilenmiştim aynı adlı bir romandan uyarlanmış bu filmden… Ama yine de tam olarak anlayamamıştım o günlerde; Amerikanca yaşamda insanın böylesi bir parasal tuzakla, duygusal sömürülüş öyküsünü…Her ne kadar görsem de yansıda insan üzen bir düzeni… İşin gerçeği çok yabancıydık o günlerde; böylesi kirli oyunlara ve umutsuz insanlara tuzak kuran kurnazlara… Filmin öyküsüne göre; sabahlara kadar aç-susuz durmaksızın dans etme koşuluyla ulaşılacaktı ödüle… Dayanamayanlar yarışma dışı kalacaktı…İşte filmin adı da at yarışlarında bacağı kırıldığında, tek kurşunla vurulup, yalnızca yarışma dışı değil, yaşam dışı da kalan atların yazgısına göndermede bulunuyordu bu acımasızca yarışma koşuluyla… Ve yarışma dışı kalanlar; umutları yitmiş, benlikleri hırpalanmış olarak bir bakıma tek kurşunla vurulan atlara dönüşüyorlardı. Bizler henüz o günlerde bir türlü yorumlayamıyorduk, algılayamıyorduk Amerikan toplumuna özgü bu varoluş savaşımını ya da insanların koyun gibi güdüle, güdüle nasıl da düzenin dişli çarkları arasında ezildiğini, sömürüldüğünü, insanlığını yitirmesi için, toplumun iyice kirlenmesi için bu oyunların hazırlandığını kavrayamıyorduk… Ve sürekli kapitalizmin acımasızlığını vurgulayarak, komünizminse sanki insanı kutsadığına ilişkin tartışmalar yapıyorduk uykusuz geceler boyunca… Yine de filmde;sabaha dek dayanamayanlar yarışma dışı kaldıkça, at yarışlarında bacağı kırılan atların tek kurşunla vurulup yarışma ve yaşam dışı kalmasına benzer bir yazgıyı neden yaşamak zorunda olduklarınaysa hiç, ama hiç anlam veremiyorduk yetmişli yıllarda… Yıllar sonrasında öğrendik; 12 Eylül 1980 sonrasında, toplumsal kirlenme bağlamında atılan tohumlar boy verdikçe, zehirli sarmaşıklar her yanımızı sardıkça, bizim de insanımız düzenin dişli çarklarına takılıp ezildikçe, öğütüldükçe ve giderek de değerlerini, benliğini, kimliğini yitirdikçe sömürü düzeninin işleyişinin kolaylığı için atların vurulması gerektiğini…BBG evleriyle başlayan ve kaynana adaylarının, gelin adaylarını haşlayan programlar, gençlere yönelik evlilik yarışmaları yansıda "atların vurulması" ve yansıda yaşananların, yaşamlara olumsuz yansımadı gerçek yaşamda da "atların vurulması" gerçekleşti ülkemiz genelinde de… Böylece televizyon yansılarında bir çeşit kanlı arenalar kuruldu; aslanların önüne atılan gladyatörler gibi, genç kızlar, erkekler atıldı juri üyesi maskeli aslanların, kaplanların, çakalların önüne…Ve yalnızlığına bir yaşam yoldaşı arayan yaşlı kadınlar ve erkekler de "evlilik programı" kılıflı yarışlarda; kandırıldılar, "sen yılkı atı değilsin" sözleriyle oyuna çağrıldılar, ama bu yılkı atlarını da vurdular, vuruyorlar… Artık media (ki bir zamanlar demokrasilerde "yasama-yürütme-yargı"nın yanında 4.erk olarak tanımlanan oluşum); demokrasi kaygısıyla değil,öncelikle kapitalizme saygısıyla eylemde bulunmaya, ("izlenme oranı /rating" denilen media kuruluşları arasındaki "atların vurulması" olayı) uğruna, bizden öncekilerin "artık bunlardan sabun bile olmaz, bunlar tabutluk" diye tanımladıkları dedeleri ve nineleri de yarıştırmaya başladılar. Üç kuruş para kazanma uğruna; kişiliğine, kimliğine yapılan saldırılara susan kadınlar, erkekler… Yaşamları teşhir edilen, gelecekleri tehdit edilen, yarınları karartılan, yarışma dışı kalınca da vurulan atlar…Ne yazık ki artık bizim ülkemizde de atları vuruyorlar tek kurşunla, acımasızca, rating canavarını beslemek için…Ve yine ne yazık ki bu yaşanan olumsuzlukların ayırdında olmayan atlar sıra, sıra beklemekteler; yarışa katılmak için... 20 Haziran'ı 21 Haziran 2025 gününe bağlayan gecenin yarısında ayağı takılıp, yere düşen bir at daha vuruldu; insanı acımasızca öğüten vahşi kapitalizmin hipodromunun kulvarlarında... Son yılların ünlü fenomenlerinden Nihal Candan yaşamını yitirdi bir hastanenin yoğum bakım odasında... M'ACUN tv yeni atlar yetiştiriyor; düzenlediği yarışmalarla... Nihal Candan gibi yarış atları boy gösteriyor televizyon yansılarında... Görün beni diye çığlıklar atıyor. En güzel, en seksi, en çekici, ben, yalnızca ben... Seçin beni ! Her biri gönüllü, istekli, o çılgınca yarışa katılmak için...Son aşamada bazen ruhen, bazen bedenen ölümün kollarına atılmak için... İnsan israf uzmanlarının can pazarında; atları vuruyorlar hiç acımadan...

2025, Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

The interview with Eva Meijer that Dariusz Gzyra and Patryk Szaj conducted considers the political aspects of relationships between humans and non-human animals. It aims at reconsidering “the political” along with other animals (in contrast to speaking simply “about” animal politics.) In the course of the interview, the following issues are raised: the political turn in animal studies, the progressive development of animal studies over the years, non-human languages and their role in political participation, the advantages and disadvantages of liberal democracy when it comes to interspecies politics, the “from the ground up” method in political theory, the political task of literature, the role of political parties and other institutions in a systemic change, animals as working-class members, the entangled empathy that, perhaps, involves not only sentient animals but also non-sentient beings.

2025, TRACE Journal for Human-Animal Studies

The general topic of animal rights has been a heated discussion, particularly over the last decade. However, the subtopic of fur consumption has been ongoing for several decades, with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) initiating the cultural disavowal of fur in the 1980s. PETA is one of the world’s most renowned animal rights organizations, dedicated to advocating for animal rights by fighting against an
imal cruelty, promoting veganism, driving legislative change, and raising public awareness. PETA continued its practice of publicly denouncing fur by targeting fur-wearing celebrities through its public ‘naming and shaming’ strategy.1 The organisation uses its strategy in various ways, including attacking various companies as well as individuals. When it comes to individuals, PETA focuses its critique on celebrities as they are likely to have an impact on public opinion. In its critique on fur consumption, the organisation spares no one, regardless of gender and race. However, the focus of this essay is on PETA’s critique of black female celebrities in the American (United States) context. This is, firstly, due to the fact that female celebrities are more likely to be seen wearing fur than their male counterparts. Secondly, the essay focuses on black celebrities to show how PETA’s strategy fails to be looked at through a racial lens.

2025

In dit artikel wordt vanuit een psychoanalytische zienswijze een intrapsychische gesteldheid beschreven die mensen geschikt maakt voor deelname aan georganiseerd massaal geweld. Mentaliseren is het vermogen het eigen doen en laten en dat van anderen intuïtief te begrijpen in termen van psychische toestanden (gevoelens, overtuigingen, bedoelingen, verlangens). De auteur betoogt dat de ontwikkeling van dit vermogen op grote schaal blokkeert als maatschappelijke ontreddering en geweld de kwaliteit van de gehechtheidsrelaties bij veel kinderen ernstig verstoren.. Op grote schaal ontwikkelt zich dan een stoornis in het proces om tot innerlijke voorstellingen van psychische processen te komen die de zelfstructuur, identiteit en affectregulatie bij het kind en later de volwassene ernstig bedreigt. Onbewust kan geprobeerd worden de bedreigde binnenwereld te repareren door een geëxternaliseerde beheersing en vernietiging van het kwaad. De auteur laat zien hoe georganiseerde haat-en geweldcampagnes op dit innerlijke proces kunnen inspelen. [toegepaste psychoanalyse, mentaliseren, compartimentalisering, georganiseerd geweld, massaal geweld, geweldssamenlevingen, terrorisme]

2025, Legal News and Views

In recent years, India has emerged as a focal point for animal welfare discussions, blending its rich ethical traditions with the development of legal frameworks aimed at protecting animals. From ancient Vedic
texts that underscore compassion towards all living beings to modern constitutional provisions, India has a unique ethical and legal approach to animal welfare. However, despite significant legislative advancements, the gap between ethical considerations and their legal implementation remains wide. This article explores the ethical foundations of animal
welfare in India, analyzes the current legal framework, and examines the future of animal welfare in Indian public policy, emphasizing the need for stronger integration of ethics into law.

2025, Hausarbeit Universität Zürich, Lizenziatsprüfung in Geschichte

Die im zu untermauernde zentrale These lautet: Obwohl sich vor 200 Jahren teilweise sehr enge emotionale Bindungen zwischen Menschen und Hunden entwickelten, beachtet heute eine grössere Anzahl an Personen neben einer emotionalen Bindung vermehrt auch die Bedürfnisse des Tieres. Ermöglicht wurde dies unter anderem durch gesellschaftliche Veränderungen (Tierschutzbewegung, Kinderziehung) und den wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt (Lerntheorie, Ethologie, Tierpsychologie), welche uns dem Wesen des Hundes immer näherbringen. Personen, welche auf diesem wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt eine symbiotische Beziehung zu ihrem Hund aufbauen, erleben dadurch eine neue Dimension der Emotionalität. Da uns emotionspsychologische Vergleichstudien fehlen, kann die Qualität der Emotionen kaum valide verglichen werden. Jedoch kann festgestellt werden, dass der Umgang mit dem Tier ein Ausdruck von Emotionen ist. Qualität oder Tiefe von Emotionen zu Beginn der Beziehung zum Hund haben sich nicht wesentlich verändert. Die Konsequenzen auf die veränderte Sichtweise zum anderen Lebewesen durch veränderte Umweltbedingungen der Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft verleihen diesen Emotionen neuen Raum.

2025, Atti del Convegno SIFM

Questo volume raccoglie le ri essioni di studiosi affermati e di giovani ricercatori su un tema di grande rilevanza per l'etica: il progresso morale. Il sottotitolo fa riferimento alle s!de, alle opportunità e alle prospettive future, nella convinzione che parlare di progresso ci collochi, inevitabilmente, sulla soglia di ciò che accadrà, di un dopo verso cui ci proiettiamo. Da questo punto di vista, è come se l'argomento riassumesse lo sforzo dell'etica di aprire una !nestra sul divenire. Eppure, proprio come tutte le !nestre di una casa, questa apertura si spalanca all'esterno, ma anche dall'interno: il tema del progresso morale, nel momento stesso in cui si presenta come scommessa per il divenire, si fa questione per il presente e memoria del passato. Nelle pagine che seguono si tenta, infatti, di mantenere un equilibrio critico tra il passato, il presente e il futuro della discussione morale sul progresso. gere gli errori morali del passato, attraverso pratiche discorsive e valutative che permettono di identi!care e superare le ingiustizie. E se le convinzioni di Kitcher mettono in crisi il progresso teleologico, gli altri contributi di questa prima sezione si impegnano, invece, a riaprire la discussione sull'etica della virtù, all'insegna di virtù intese come "trasformative" per esempio, e dunque, interne al progresso morale (Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, con Federico Bina e Matilde Liberti); sul ruolo della religione, e in particolare della religione cristiana, nella giusti!cazione e nella motivazione delle credenze morali che si ritiene diano dimostrazione del progresso (Andrea Aguti); sulla non idealità del progresso, attraverso il costruttivismo e l'idea tecnologica del potenziamento umano (Fiorella Battaglia); sugli effetti della "falsa coscienza" che minano la consapevolezza morale, a cui si oppone la ribellione nello spazio urbano (Paolo Gomarasca). Già da questi brevi riferimenti ai contributi presenti nelle Questioni generali, si comprende bene come il volume raccolga una ricchezza di ambiti di ricerca e di spazi di ri essione inediti che aprono di volta in volta nuove strade. Si ragiona sulle radici storiche (nei saggi di Giacomo Maria Arrigo e Leonardo Ursillo), per poter confrontarci a fondo con la natura del progresso morale (i contributi di Giulia Battistoni

2025

Nature's Meaning Series Editor: Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytech-nic Institute Each title in Nature's Meaning is created to have the personal stamp of a pas-sionate and articulate spokesperson for... more

2025

O texto trata sobre a resistência vegetal em meio às cidades através do caso das plantas ruderais. Nossa reflexão tem por guia as ideias de Anna Tsing e Donna Haraway, sobretude quanto aos conceitos de paisagens multiespécies e de... more

2025, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Esta dissertação contribui para responder, principalmente, a três problemas filosóficos: (1) A morte pode ser um dano para quem morre? (2) Se sim, o que determina a magnitude desse dano? (3) Como avaliar o dano da morte de diferentes seres sencientes? O primeiro capítulo aborda o primeiro desses problemas, avaliando os principais argumentos em favor da tese epicurista de que a morte nunca é um dano para quem morre. A partir da análise desses argumentos, conclui-se que não há boas razões para negar que a morte possa ser um dano. O segundo capítulo examina a Abordagem Comparativa da Vida, de acordo com a qual a morte é um dano para quem morre porque, e na medida em que, o priva de um futuro que teria sido bom para ele. O terceiro capítulo analisa a Abordagem do Interesse Relativo ao Tempo, que mantém que a magnitude do dano da morte depende não apenas do valor do futuro que o indivíduo é privado de viver ao morrer, mas também da força das relações de unidade prudencial que vinculariam o indivíduo no momento da morte com ele próprio nos momentos futuros em que usufruiria dos bens, sendo a força dessas relações determinada, sobretudo, pelo grau de unidade psicológica. Ao discutir essas abordagens, suas implicações para avaliar a morte de diferentes seres sencientes são analisadas. Além disso, objeções a essas abordagens são consideradas e novas objeções são formuladas, argumentando que ambas as abordagens enfrentam problemas. Assim, por um lado defende-se que não há boas razões para afirmar que a morte não pode ser um dano; por outro, sustenta-se que as duas abordagens mais influentes da literatura filosófica sobre o dano da morte estão suscetíveis a sérios problemas. Disso segue-se uma das principais conclusões desta dissertação: a de que há a necessidade teórica de uma nova abordagem do dano da morte que seja uma alternativa viável às abordagens existentes. O último capítulo visa fornecer tal abordagem — ou, ao menos, o desenvolvimento inicial dela. A ideia central dessa nova proposta é reformular a Abordagem do Interesse Relativo ao Tempo reconhecendo a existência de duas relações de unidade prudencial como igualmente relevantes: identidade numérica e unidade psicológica. Isso fornece uma nova estrutura teórica para avaliar a morte de seres sencientes que, argumenta-se, é melhor embasada e evita os problemas centrais da versão original da abordagem sem minar suas virtudes.

2025, Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών ΕΚΠΑ

Στην παρούσα εργασία, θα προβούμε σε μια κειμενική ανάλυση, του θεατρικού έργου
του David Mamet, «Παραλλαγές Πάπιας», προκειμένου να εντοπίσουμε πιθανά
στοιχεία ζωικότητας στο έργο, να μελετήσουμε τη σχέση τους με την ανθρωπινότητα,
και να εξετάσουμε την αλληλεπίδραση του ανθρώπινου και του μη-ανθρώπινου ζώου
στο πλαίσιο της θεατρικής συνθήκης.
Ορμώμενοι από το κείμενο του E. Levinas, «Nom d’ un chien ou le droit
naturel», και τη θεωρία του περί ανθρωπισμού, αλλά και βασιζόμενοι σε άλλα
κείμενα και μελετήματα, θα εξετάσουμε το συγκεκριμένο έργο του Mamet από
σκοπιά φιλοσοφική, αλλά και δραματουργική, με σκοπό να αναλύσουμε τις σχέσεις
ανάμεσα στους ήρωες και τα ζώα, το δίπολο ανθρωπινότητα-ζωικότητα στο έργο και
τη δυναμική του, καθώς και την έννοια του ζώου-συμβάντος.
Μελετώντας την αλληγορική φύση του κειμένου, θα δείξουμε πώς η
ανθρωπινότητα και η ζωικότητα, συναντιούνται, συνομιλούν κι εν τέλει εξισώνονται,
στο έργο, αφού παρουσιαστούν οι πιθανές εκφάνσεις της μεταξύ τους
αλληλεπίδρασης.

2025

Aus der SPEX-Magazin-Reihe "Bilder, die die Welt bewegten" (Ausg. 8, 2015) – Reprint im Sammelband: Drehli Robnik: Ansichten und Absichten. Texte über populäres Kino und Politik (hg.von Alexander Horwath bei FilmmuseumSYNEMA, Wien 2022)

2025, Object-Georiënteerde Ontologie (OOO) als Lens

Deze paper onderzoekt hoe Object-Georiënteerde Ontologie (OOO) een nieuw perspectief biedt op de conceptuele en ethische vraagstukken rond de ontwikkeling van Kunstmatige Intelligentie (AI) en het debat over robotbewustzijn. Door het correlationisme te verwerpen en de notie van 'teruggetrokken objecten' te omarmen, biedt OOO een radicaal nonantropocentrisch kader. Dit dwingt ons om AI te zien als autonome entiteiten met hun eigen realiteit, wat leidt tot een heroverweging van hun ontologische status en de onkenbaarheid van bewustzijn, zowel menselijk als artificieel. De implicaties hiervan zijn significant voor toekomstig onderzoek en ethische kaders in AI-ontwikkeling.

2025

Nesta comunicacao, apresentamos uma etnografia de um coletivo multiespecifico urbano em luta pelo direito a diferenca. O trabalho resulta do encontro entre carroceiros e cavalos das periferias de Belo Horizonte com um antropologo e um biologo em meio a disputas em torno de dois futuros possiveis: de legitimacao ou criminalizacao da tracao animal e da convivencia entre humanos e equinos. Este texto apresenta uma abordagem critica acerca dos discursos sobre os cavalos enunciados por determinados atores vinculados a perspectiva da Libertacao Animal. Em contraposicao, apresentamos as narrativas de carroceiros sobre as relacoes interespecificas junto a esses animais, desde suas respectivas comunidades rumo a cidade inteira. Nesse processo, fomos incorporados como assessores ao coletivo multiespecifico, com a missao de traduzir os fluxos de desejos, intencoes e objetivos tanto dos carroceiros para seus grupos antagonicos quanto destes grupos aos carroceiros, e de ambos ao Estado.

2025

This analysis synthesizes cross-species neurological, behavioral, and evolutionary research data to examine the continuity of sentient experience among living beings. The findings suggest that core experiential structures-pain avoidance, environmental preference, and self-preserving behavior-are conserved across a wide range of taxa, from complex mammals to invertebrates and simpler life forms.

2025, Uluslararası Halkbilimi Araştırmaları Dergisi

With reference to the book “18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation”, published by the Alliance for Marxism and Animal Liberation, which aims to create a point of consensus between Marxism and the anti-speciesism struggle, this article discusses the solidarity and conflict between Marxism and the anti-speciesism movement under the titles “Why should anti-speciesism be Marxist?” and “Why should Marxism be anti-speciesist?”. While Marxists describe anti-speciesists as being insensitive to capitalism's exploitation of labor, pro-bourgeois, and idealistic with metaphysical and moralistic tendencies, anti-speciesists describe Marxists as incoherent for reproducing today's industrial animal exploitation through consumption relations within the capitalism they criticize. In 2014, the Alliance for Marxism and Animal Liberation, an association of animal liberation movement and communist left activists from Germany and Switzerland, suggested that for Marxists to abandon their incoherence, they should not be in a network of consumption relations that reproduce animal exploitation and should address the domination of capitalism over animals in their analysis while anti-speciesists should work with the historical materialist method to analyze the material conditions of speciesism. While these proposals seem to establish a point of compromise without making vital compromises on either side, as the discussion section of the article will show, there are many points ripe for debate. This article will both present this ground for compromise by summarizing the Alliance for Marxism and Animal Liberation's critique and open it up for discussion.

2025, Animal Studies Journal

Anthony J. Nocella

2025, Die Tötung von Tieren zur Produktion von Nahrungsmitteln.

Gerne! Hier ist ein englisches Abstract für deine wissenschaftliche Arbeit mit dem Thema: **„Die Tötung von Tieren zur Produktion von Nahrungsmitteln. Ein Vergleich der Positionen von Peter Singer und Christine Korsgaard“** ---... more

2025

This paper is an attempt to critically review the article "Piece's of Evolution's Puzzle: A Social- Philosophical Perspective" by Gregory M. Sandstrom. I argue that Mr. Sandstrom's paper, though it may offer legitimate challenges to evolution in human-social thought, ultimately falls short in its failure to offer an alternative to evolutionary theory. Instead, he just tries to follow the main lines of logic developed by Steve Fuller to promote the ideas of Pitirim Sorokin. Sandstrom's paper nevertheless has many provocative and insightful contributions; he reintroduces Theodosius Dobzhansky's culturally-sensitive biology to current social sciences.

2025, Exchange. Journal of Contemporary Christianities

Christianity and the environment have a tense relationship. Although in recent years an eco-theology of stewardship has taken flight, according to theologians as well as philosophers the historical track record of Christians with regard to nature in general and animals in particular leaves much to be desired. However, this view has never been empirically tested. In this article three early modern accounts of Protestant missionaries who lived in Greenland, New Netherland (North America) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) are analysed in order to uncover attitudes towards animals. The accounts describe local fauna, reflect upon the way in which animals are treated and discuss 'pagan' attitudes towards animals. The concepts of tropicality and arcticality are used to help to frame the missionaries' views on animals in terms of othering non-European fauna. The article concludes that the critique of Christianity's track record is essentially justified, but also that it was more nuanced and complex than has hitherto been thought. As such, the early modern missionary accounts' focus on wildlife may well serve as a source of inspiration for present-day missionary organizations.

2025

Murray Bookchin: Η «περιορισμένη κυβέρνηση» οδηγεί πάντοτε σε απεριόριστη κυβέρνηση. Συνέντευξη του Murray Bookchin στο περιοδικό Reason, Οκτώβρης 1979

2025, ΟΚΤΑΝΑ

Τελική πλήρως αναθεωρημένη και επικαιροποιημένη έκδοση του καταστατικού για το ομώνυμο κίνημα Animal Liberation που πρωτοεκδόθηκε το 1975

2025, ACCIONES SALVAJES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCION

El artículo presenta diferentes ejemplos sobre la idea de lo "salvaje" como algo que bajo muchos lentes se quiere normar y controlar por su difícil comprensión bajo un contexto determinado, como en muchos casos es la danza, la ciencia, los pueblos originarios y el performance. El desarrollo reflexivo se origina a partir de un caso específico sobre la extinción de "El caballo de Przewalski", que se amplifica a diferentes reflexiones en torno a la posisbilidad de conservación y preservación de ejemplos "salvajes" para su futura observación en las próximas generaciones.

2025, Athens

Η πρωτοκαθεδρία της πρακτικής φιλοσοφίας έναντι της θεωρητικής φιλοσοφίας είναι ο μόνος βέβαιος κανόνας που μπορεί να χωρίσει το στάχυ από τα ζιζάνια, δηλαδή αυτούς που έχουν μέσα τους την φιλοσοφία από τους επίδοξους τσαρλατάνους. Τα πρακτικά ζητήματα λύνονται αφ’εαυτού με επίκληση στον πρακτικό λόγο, και είναι αναίδεια να προσπαθείς να διατυπώσεις θεωρητικές αντιρρήσεις στον πρακτικό λόγο. Η φιλοσοφία στο σωκρατικό της νόημα είναι πρώτα από όλα η τέχνη του πρακτικού βίου – το ερώτημα είναι λιγότερο οντολογικό παρά πρακτικό. Το ερώτημα της σωκρατικής φιλοσοφίας είναι το «πως πρέπει να ζήσω», και όχι το «τι είναι το είναι». Ο ρόλος της θεωρίας τότε είναι λιγότερο θετικής παρά αρνητικής φύσεως, θετικά η θεωρία είναι απλά η στάση του αδέκαστου δικαστή που συζητάει και διατυπώνει όλες τις πιθανές απόψεις γύρω από ένα θέμα – δηλαδή είναι η στάση της ανάλυσης – ενώ ο πραγματικός της ρόλος είναι να παραμερίζει όλες τις σοφιστείες γύρω από το θέμα. Η ατέρμονη θεωρητική συζήτηση απλά αποθαρρύνει τον επίδοξο φιλόσοφο, και τον οδηγεί στην αδράνεια και την απραξία. Κάθε πρωτόπειρος φιλόσοφος πρέπει να καταλάβει ότι τα πεδία του θεωρητικού λόγου και του πρακτικού λόγου αποτελούν δύο διαφορετικά πεδία που λειτουργούν σχεδόν αυτόνομα μεταξύ τους. Η ωριμότητα στον στοχασμό φθάνει μόνο όταν κλείσει αυτό το ζήτημα. Όταν δηλαδή ο επίδοξος φιλόσοφος καταλάβει ότι το πεδίο της κρίσεως είναι ο πρακτικός λόγος. Επειδή αυτό το θεμελιώδες ζήτημα είναι πολύ δύσκολο θα προσπαθήσουμε εδώ να το διαπραγματευθούμε μέσω παραδειγμάτων και στην βάση μιας υποτυπώδους ανάλυσης. Όποιος θέλει μια εμπεριστατωμένη διαπραγμάτευση αυτού του ζητήματος στην βάση ενός αποδεικτικού και αναλυτικού λόγου δεν έχει παρά να διαβάσει το έργο μας «Η καντιανή συστηματική» στην οποία θέσαμε το ζήτημα ex professo.

2025, The Journal of Ethics

In the animal ethics literature, speciesism is defined in all sorts of manners. It is construed as a behaviour or a philosophical view, as necessarily anthropocentric or possibly centred on other species, as involving the idea that species membership is morally significant or compatible with the rejection of that idea, as necessarily immoral or possibly ethically acceptable. Up to a point, this variety is unobjectionable. We are at liberty to stipulate the sense in which we use words. But this is true only within limits. Some definitions are good and some bad, depending on whether or not they meet certain conditions. In this contribution, I define speciesism as unequal treatment based on species and argue that this definition fares better than extant accounts insofar as it satisfies two desiderata: matching a good account of racism and making the concept of speciesism most useful.

2025, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Barnhill and Bonotti ask how liberals might justify public policies to promote healthier diets. Milburn asks how a decent food system would involve other animals, and considers why liberal states should foster such a system. I welcome these attempts to imagine ways to feed people better and treat other animals with humanity, and to relate these to liberal ideals. My comments offer some reservations, however. Barnhill, Bonotti and Milburn suggest compelling grounds for states to intervene. I would prefer to say: there are compelling grounds for states to intervene differently. These books set aside the structure of existing food systems. But to explain why the world’s more liberal states have ignored similar arguments over many decades, we need to take some view of these systems. In fact, these systems rest on interventions by liberal-democratic states. These interventions show little regard for liberal reasoning. Their results are bad for human health, and disastrous for animal and planetary well-being. These points support the authors’ calls for more rational, liberal and humane food policies, with one caveat. Democratic debate can only make headway if we appreciate how many policies carry us in the wrong directions. When we consider how ideals support state intervention, we should be realistic about how states currently intervene.

2025, A ECOLOGIA INTEGRAL E OS DIREITOS DOS ANIMAIS NÃO HUMANOS

Integral Ecology claims our attention to the great systemic crisis that our common home – the Earth – is facing, where we are all interconnected, asserting that the oppression of one species can cause the suffering and extinction of another. The Universal Declaration on the Rights of Animals, proclaimed in 1978, inaugurated a new ecological conscience in defense of animals and contributed to the growth of protective legislation that condemned cruelty and mistreatment of non-human animals. However, despite this advance, it still prevails in society anthropocentric ideas of domination of the nature by the men, discrimination through speciesism and utilitarianism, which believes in the submission of the animals, whose existence is limited to the needs of humanity. From the book A Ética da Vida, a Nova Centralidade, by Leonardo Boff (2009), the objective of this work is to bring some concepts of integral ecology as an argument to think about social responsibility in defense of animal rights and to problematize the culture of animal exploitation and the cruelty of the food industry. The research was articulated around the concept of integral ecology, having animal rights as the main issue. The methodology used involves bibliographic research on animal protection legislation, using the following authors: Carla de Abreu Medeiros (2019) and Ana Conceição Barbuda Sanches Guimarães Ferreira (2014). Themes about animal exploitation are studied and presented through the analysis of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation (1989) and some articles from magazines and online newsletters that bring research on the livestock farming and animal bioethics.

2025

Hayvanlar, ne akılla kötülük planlar, ne kibirle başkasını küçümser. Onların doğası içgüdülerle örülüdür, ama bu doğa ne eksikliktir ne de düşkünlük. Belki de onları bu kadar özel ve saf kılan şey tam da budur. Biz insanlara düşen ise, aklımızı onların hakkını koruyacak şekilde kullanmak. Çünkü bu akıl, aynı zamanda egonun da kaynağıdır: Kendimizi üstün görme tuzağının.
Bu yazı bir çözüm önerisi değil; bir çağrıdır. Hayvanlara nasıl davranacağımızı tartışmadan önce, onlara nasıl baktığımızı hatırlamak içindir. Eğer onları yalnızca bir sorun, bir kalabalık, bir tehlike gibi görüyorsak; önce kendi bakışımızı değiştirmemiz gerekir. Belki de sorulması gereken şey şudur: Bir melek gibi sessiz olan bir varlığa karşı ne kadar sesimizi yükseltebiliriz?

2025, LA PROTECCIÓN DEL BIOMA MATA ATLÁNTICA Y LA INCONSTITUCIONALIDAD DEL PL 364/2019 Y SUS POTENCIALES DAÑOS CLIMÁTICOS

O presente trabalho analisa o Projeto de Lei 364/2019, que reduz a proteção de campos nativos, afastando a aplicação da Lei Federal 11.428/2006 nesses ecossistemas, sob o prisma da ordem constitucional socioambiental e dos compromissos internacionais assumidos pelo Brasil. Parte-se da contextualização do regime especial de proteção jurídica do bioma Mata Atlântica, para logo em seguida, contrapor a proposição de lei com os fundamentos constitucionais do direito ambiental. Por fim, analisa-se o descompasso do projeto em relação aos compromissos brasileiros assumidos na Convenção Quadro das Nações Unidas. A metodologia empregada é a pesquisa bibliográfica multidisciplinar e documental sobre o tema. Conclui-se pela dissonância do PL 364/2019 com o ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, quer seja quando posto sob um crivo do controle de constitucionalidade, quer seja quando se observa os possíveis impactos climáticos decorrentes da sua aprovação.

2025, Παρουσιάση του βιβλιου της Χρ. Κούρφαλη Ποιός θέλεις να είσαι.

Φιλοσοφώντας με αφορμή μια βιβλιοπαρουσίαση Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου της Χριστίνας Κούρφαλη, «Ποιος θέλεις να είσαι; Μαθήματα στωικής φιλοσοφίας με τον Επίκτητο», εκδ. iWrite, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2025. Η Χριστίνα Κούρφαλη, σε αυτό το βιβλίο της, επιχειρεί να απαντήσει στο οντολογικό και συνακόλουθα ανθρωπολογικό ερώτημα προτείνοντας μια θεωρία και μια μέθοδο για μια ζωή με πληρότητα, σκοπό, νόημα και θάρρος για την αντιμετώπιση των προβλημάτων της ζωής, της φθοράς και του θανάτου.

2025, Between the Species

2025, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

In Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully, I sketch a food system in which people have access to animal-based foods and animals' rights are respected. I present this as an ideal theoretic vision in the liberal tradition of political philosophy. In this article, I respond to the commentaries provided in this symposium by Bardon, Bernardi, and Gentile; Pellegrino; Bailey; Fischer; Chiang and Sebo; and Williams. I group my responses around the three themes identified by Bailey in his introduction: public reason, political constituencies, and markets.