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21Colb and Dorf on Abortion and Animal RightsBetween the Species 20 (1). 2017.In their recent book, Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf defend the following ethical theses: sentience is sufficient for possessing the right not to be harmed and the right not to be killed; killing sentient animals for food is almost always seriously wrong; aborting pre-sentient fetuses raises no moral concerns at all; and aborting sentient fetuses is wrong absent a reason weighty enough to justify killing the fetus. They also discuss strategies and tactics for activists: They oppose the use of grap…Read more
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20Review of Practical Ethics, 3rd Edition by Peter Singer1 (review)American Journal of Bioethics 11 (12): 73-75. 2011.
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15InconsistencyGrazer Philosophische Studien 40 (1): 113-130. 1991.The relationship between inconsistency and Lehrerian coherence is scrutinized. Like most coherence theorists of epistemic justification, Lehrer contends that consistency is necessary for coherence. Despite this contention, minimally inconsistent belief-sets prove coherent and rationally acceptable on Lehrer's account of coherence. Lehrer is left with the following dilemma: If consistency is necessary for coherence, then (i) he must revise his account of coherence accordingly and, more importantl…Read more
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3The Commonsense Case against Animal ExperimentationIn Jeremy Garret (ed.), The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy, Mit Press. pp. 215-236. 2012.
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2Epistemic LuckIn Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa & Matthias Steup (eds.), A Companion to Epistemology, Second Edition, Blackwell. pp. 336-340. 2010.
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Paul Warren TaylorIn Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 2, Gale Cengage Learning. pp. 302-304. 2008.
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Tierethik, Tierrechte, und moralische IntegritätIn Rainer Ebert (ed.), Tierrechte – Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung, Harald Fischer Verlag. pp. 105-133. 2007.
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Ethical ExtensionismIn Engel Jr Mylan (ed.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 1, Gale Cengage Learning. pp. 396-398. 2008.
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Review of Mark Devries’s documentary film "Speciesism: The Movie"The Philosophers’ Magazine (65): 123-124. 2014.
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Zebras and Cleverly Disguised MulesIn Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa & Matthias Steup (eds.), A Companion to Epistemology, Second Edition, Oxford. pp. 788-793. 2010.
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The Kiefer ArgumentIn Wolfgang Leopold Gombocz (ed.), Philosophy of Religion, D. Reidel [distributor]. 1984.
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Part Two : Epistemological Perspectives. When Freeing Your Mind Isn't Enough : Framework Approaches to Social Transformation and its Discontents / Kristie Dotson and Ezgi Sertler ; Situated Knowledge, Purity, and Moral Panic / Quill R. Kukla ; Epistemology and the Ethics of Animal ExperimentationIn Jennifer Lackey (ed.), Applied Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2021.
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