SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Anthropocentrism, Animal Cognition, Masahisa Fukase
8 Feb 2018
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As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Readings: l. castro, e. wasserman, what birds can teach us about animal intelligence. , h. herzog, the moral status of mice: the use of animals in science. 205-236. Terms: vivisection, anthropomorphism, analogic thinking, descartes, darwin, evolution, survival of the fittest, mind vs. body dualism, consciousness. Vivisection: 19th century term for invasive animal research. Links: new alternatives: https://www. youtube. com/watch?time_continue=168&v=mg2fj0ubj_0, plants neurobiology https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=mpql1vhbyl4, octopusses, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zu_2czhnbdg. L. castro, e. wasserman, what birds can teach us about animal intelligence. Vivisection currently 9 out of 10 experimental drugs fail in clinical studies. We cannot accurately predict, how they will behave in people. Cancer research the history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades & it simply didn"t work in humans. Describes the tendency for human beings to see themselves as most significant. Reality is considered only through human perspectives.
