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- Ethical extensionism or moral extensionism is a metaethical or metaphilosophical approach in environmental ethics and animal ethics that extends existing ethical theories and concepts to include entities (animals, plants, species, the earth) that are traditionally excluded.
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Ethical extensionism or moral extensionism is a metaethical or metaphilosophical approach in environmental ethics and animal ethics that extends existing ethical theories and concepts to include entities (animals, plants, species, the earth) that are traditionally excluded.
Ethical extensionism is an approach to environmental and animal ethics in which the scope of ethical theories is extended to cover beings traditionally thought to fall outside the purview of those theories. As traditionally understood, the dominant moral theories in Western philosophy restrict the class of morally considerable beings to ...
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Aug 1, 2011 · Abstract. Ethical extensionism generally involves drawing one or more lines of moral standing. I argue (i) for all living organisms, there is a non-zero probability of sentience and consciousness, and (ii) we cannot justify excluding beings from consideration on the basis of uncertainty of their sentience, etc., and rather we should incorporate ...
Ethical extensionism is a common argument pattern in environmen- tal and animal ethics, which takes a morally valuable trait already recognized in us and argues that we should recognize that value in other entities such as nonhuman animals.
Aug 1, 2011 · Abstract. Ethical extensionism generally involves drawing one or more lines of moral standing. I argue (i) for all living organisms, there is a non-zero probability of sentience and...
Aug 6, 2019 · This expansion outwards of ethics is called ‘ethical extensionism’ (Vilkka 1997). History shows its extension over the centuries from the personal to the group, to women (universal suffrage), to all people (the end of slavery), and largely to sentient animals (animals welfare).
Oct 22, 2013 · Ethical Extensionism under Uncertainty of Sentience: Duties to Non-Human Organisms without Drawing a Line. Creator. Chan, Kai Ming Adam, 1975-. Publisher. The White Horse Press. Date Issued. 2013-10-22. Description. Ethical extensionism generally involves drawing one or more lines of moral standing.
