Sökning: "animal ethics"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden animal ethics.

  1. 21. On the origins of physical cognition in corvids

    Författare :Ivo Jacobs; LUCS grupp för kognitiv zoologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; physical cognition; causal cognition; tool use; evolution of cognition; anthropomorphism; corvids;

    Sammanfattning : Physical cognition involves a host of cognitive abilities that enable understanding and manipulation of the physical world. Corvids, the bird family that includes crows, ravens and jays, are renowned for their cognitive abilities, but still little is known about their folk physics. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Human enhancement and technological uncertainty : Essays on the promise and peril of emerging technology

    Författare :Karim Jebari; Sven-Ove Hansson; Sarah Chan; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct communication between the brain and a machine possible by means of electrical stimuli. This essay reviews the existing and emerging technologies in this field and offers an inquiry into the ethical problems that are likely to emerge. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary

    Författare :Ryan Palmer; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Michael Lundblad; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecocriticism; ecofiction; re-enchantment; wonder; disenchantment; noir; environmental ethics; climate change; affect; environmental justice; Thomas Pynchon; Lydia Millet; Karen Tei Yamashita; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. LÄS MER

  5. 24. A Beautiful Failure : The Event of Death and Rhetorical Disorder in the Gospel according to Mark

    Författare :Joel Kuhlin; Bibelvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Death of Jesus; he Gospel according to Mark; Mk 15:6–39; Papias of Hierapolis; Progymnasmata; rhetoric; failure hamartêma ; narrative διήγησις; diêgêsis ; taxis τάξις ; lexis λέξις ; ; disorder; social death; The Logic of Sense; Gilles Deleuze; event; ataxia; diêgêma διήγημα ; chreia χρεία ; parataxis; paradox; parable; Franz Kafka; Der Prozeß; Josef K.; suspension-execution σταυροῦν: staurôn ; suspension-pole σταυρός: stauros ; Aelius Theon; dianoia διάνοια ; Francis Bacon;

    Sammanfattning : Is there beauty in rhetorical failure? This study is an exploration of disorder and death in the Gospel according to Mark (Mk). With a surviving fragment from the second-century theologian Papias of Hierapolis, the early reception of Mk locates insights into the composition of Jesus’s death, especially through the concepts of ataxia and rhetorical failure. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Liksom ett par nya ögon. Frithiof Holmgren och synsinnets problematik

    Författare :Jan-Eric Olsén; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of ideas; History of philosophy; vivisections; colour perception; colour-blindness; the visual organ; the human body; sensations; scientific ideals; industrial technology; Frithiof Holmgren; scientific instruments; physiological experiments; laboratory medicine; physiology; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria; History of science; Vetenskapshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with research on the visual organ as pursued in experimental physiology during the latter half of the nineteenth-century. In the 1850's och 60's experimental physiology developed as a new, scientific discipline within the curriculum of western medicine. LÄS MER