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More than Zombies: Considering the Animal Subject in De-Extinction

Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter (2022) More than Zombies: Considering the Animal Subject in De-Extinction. [Preprint]

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Katz (2022) provides arguments drawn from the environmental philosophy literature to criticize the conceptualisation and practice of de-extinction with a focus on the ontological and epistemological issues - the human dimension of de-extinction, using concepts relevant only to us and our understanding of the world. In this commentary we wish to draw attention to how this can erase the animals as subjects, instead taking them as objects that are instantiations of other values – naturalness, authenticity, wildness, human artifice, domination. We need also to include the perspective and interests of the animals themselves as additional sources of value for consideration.


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Item Type: Preprint
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCID
Browning, Heatherheather.browning@anu.edu.au0000-0003-1554-7052
Veit, Walterwrwveit@gmail.com0000-0001-7701-8995
Keywords: de-extinction, animal welfare, values in science, philosophy of animal minds
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Biology
Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation
Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology
General Issues > Ethical Issues
General Issues > Rhetoric of Science
General Issues > Science and Society
General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User: Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited: 09 May 2022 04:05
Last Modified: 15 Feb 2023 00:57
Item ID: 20558
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Biology
Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation
Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology
General Issues > Ethical Issues
General Issues > Rhetoric of Science
General Issues > Science and Society
General Issues > Values In Science
Date: 2022
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20558

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