This paper offers a moral history of the industrialisation of seaweed harvesting in Norway. Industrialisation is often seen as degrading natural resources. Ironically, we argue, it is precisely the scale and scope of ...

Det antas av mange filosofer at kantianske teorier i prinsippet er for hardhjertete eller for abstrakte til å kunne fange hvordan vi handler og burde handle i verden. I møte med noen som spør «finnes det virkelige grunner ...

Up against capacity-based approaches to animal ethics, Cora Diamond has put the idea of animals as our fellow creatures. The aim of this article is to explore the implications of this concept for our treatment of fish. ...

The question of the moral status of animals is a central problem in animal ethics. A range of questions arises when discussing the moral status of animals. How should we understand the concept of moral status? What kind ...

The genome editing technology CRISPR is described as a technological game-changer because of its flexibility and precision, and as an ethical game-changer due to its ability to engineer traits in living organisms without ...

Sammendrag Oppgaven undersøker hvordan ansvar kan aktualiseres og anvendes i en tid som er preget av teknologi. Med teknologi så finnes det muligheter, samtidig som at risikoene ved noen teknologier er store. Konsekvensene ...

In a world where issues of food safety and food security are increasingly important, the social responsibility of central actors in the food chain—producers and the main grocery chains—becomes more pressing. As a response, ...