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Publications

Books by Members

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Selected Journal Articles

2025

Bossert, L.N. and Wulf, L. 2025. Why the carbon footprint of generative large language models alone will not help us assess their sustainability. Nature Machine Intelligence, 7: 164-165 (Comment).

Bossert, L.N. and Höll, D. 2025. On the values of microbes: An ethical investigation of relational values associated with the microbial world, People and Nature, 1-11.

Linder, E. 2025. What is it like to see an animal? Self-examination and the moral relevance of ordinary descriptions of animals. In: Leibowitz, U.D., Coko, K., Nevo, I. (eds) Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits. Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 141-157.

2024

Blatter, C. E., Bossert, L.N. 2024: Das Kontinuum tierlicher Arbeit und dessen Bedeutung für gerechte Interspezies-Gesellschaften. In: Tierstudien 26, 21-30.
Bossert, L. N. and Potthast, T. 2024. Genetic engineering, nature conservation, and animal ethics: Why genetically modifying wild sentient animals is not a good option. Environmental Ethics, online first.
Bossert, L.N.; Coeckelbergh, M. 2024. From MilkingBots to RoboDolphins: How AI changes human-animal relations and enables alienation towards animals. Nature – Humanities and Social Science Communications 11, 920: 1-7.
Bossert, L.N. 2024. Interspecies Justice within a normative Sustainable Development framework – Animal-friendly energy systems as a test case. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 37: 14.
Deininger, K., Aigner, A., and Grimm, H. 2024. "Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics." The Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (3): 495-513.
Deininger, K., and Grimm, H. 2024. "Certainties and the Bedrock of Moral Reasoning: Three Ways the Spade Turns," Analytic Philosophy.
Deininger, K., Karg, J., and Grimm, H. 2024. "Mission Veterinary Medicine: Learning from Methodological Aspects in Just War Theory," In EurSafe2024 Proceedings: Back to the Future – Sustainable Innovations for Ethical Food Production and Consumption, edited by Mona Giersberg, Franck Meijboom and Bernice Bovenkerk, 318-323. Leiden: Wageningen Academic.
Eckl, K., and Deininger, K. A. 2024. Tempered Rationalism for a Tempered Yuck Factor—Using Disgust in Bioethics. ABR 16, 575–594.
Ferrari, A., 2024. Carne coltivata: La rivoluzione a tavola? Transformation Governance.
Hirtenfelder, C.T., 2024. Finding Traces of Cows in the Archives and Telling Stories Differently. Archivaria, 98(1): 6-41.
Hirtenfelder, C.T., 2024. An Analytical Framework to Understand the Problematization of Urban (Historical) Animals. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(5): 2182-2203.
Kummer, R., Benz-Schwarzburg, J., Veit, A. 2024. Facetten der Mensch-Tier-Beziehung: eine Fortbildung für Lehrkräfte, politische Bildner:innen und ihre Zielgruppen. In: Firsova-Eckert, E., Lange, D. (eds) Innovationen in der politischen (Weiter-)Bildung. Bürgerbewusstsein. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Linder, E. 2024. Live and let die—The distinction between doing and allowing harm and the veterinarian’s integrity. In EurSafe2024 Proceedings (pp. 348-353). Wageningen Academic.
Ryan, M. and Bossert, L.N. 2024. Dr. Doolittle uses AI: Ethical challenges of trying to speak whale. In: Biological Conservation 295:
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Salzani, C., and Weisberg, Z. 2024.“Animals as Victims”, in dePICTions 4, Victimhood.
Salzani, C. 2024. Leni’s Hand: Animality and Redemption in Kafka’s Women, International Review of Literary Studies 6(1): 56-63.
Salzani, C. 2024.Gli animali di Agamben, Philosophy and Animality, Aut aut (401):37-50.
Weisberg, Z. 2024. (In)Visible Subjects: A Review of Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory. Society & Animals.
Wrage, B. Papadopoulos, D., and Benz-Schwarzburg, J., 2024. Ubuntu in Elephant Communities. Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 2024;10(4): 814-835.

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