Confining 'Disenhanced' Animals.
Drawing upon evolutionary theory and the work of Daniel Dennett and Nicholas Agar, I offer an argument for broadening discussion of the ethics of disenhancement beyond animal welfare concerns to a consideration of animal 'biopreferences'. Short of rendering animals completely unconscious or decerebr...
| Publicado en: | NanoEthics Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 41 - 47 |
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