Sentence examples for animal argument from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, many replies to animalism do concern questions raised by the thinking animal argument and may fruitfully be seen as addressing one or another of its premises.

And, although not initially developed as a response to the thinking animal argument, S. Shoemaker's (1984, 1999, 2004) view represents a direct and formidable challenge to (P2).

If the thinking animal argument were sound, then it would follow (per impossibile) that you are identical with each of an infinite number of nonidentical thinking parts.

His view that animals cannot think and the implications of that claim for the thinking animal argument are discussed in Árnadóttir 2010, Hershenov 2006, Olson 2002b, and S. Shoemaker 2004, 2008, 2011, forthcoming.

Not all replies to the thinking animal argument have focused exclusively on, or even addressed themselves directly, to one or the other of the three premises that make up that argument.

Even if these objections to the thinking animal argument can be answered, there is some irony in the fact that the fate of the hallmark argument for animalism should hang in the balance of disputes over the nature of mental properties and the individuation of thinkers.

Like other traditional animal ethics arguments, though, the argument depends upon controversial claims about the sufficient conditions for full, or near-full, moral status.

After all, it would satisfy the animal spirits argument.

The animal testing argument is trapped in a 1980s time warp.

The "animal ancestors argument" takes the form of a reductio.

There is the ethical, or animal-rights, argument, which holds that the pain and terror suffered by slaughter animals is morally indefensible.