Birte Wrage
Biographic Data
| ID | 9637127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birte Wrage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birte |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrage |
| SIGNATURE | WRAGE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Unit of Ethics and Human-Animal Studies, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5007-8522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ubuntu in Elephant Communities
African (Bantu) philosophy conceptualizes morality through ubuntu , which emphasizes the role of community in producing moral agents. This community is characterized by practices that respond to and value interdependence, such as care, cooperation, and respect for elders and ancestral knowledge. While there have been attributions of morality to nonhuman animals in the interdisciplinary animal morality debate, this debate has focused on Western co…
Tactful animals
In this paper, we argue that scientists working on the animal morality debate have been operating with a narrow view of morality that prematurely limits the variety of moral practices that animals may be capable of. We show how this bias can be partially corrected by paying more attention to the touch behaviours of animals. We argue that a careful examination of the ways in which animals engage in and navigate touch interactions can shed new ligh…
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Tactful animals
In this paper, we argue that scientists working on the animal morality debate have been operating with a narrow view of morality that prematurely limits the variety of moral practices that animals may be capable of. We show how this bias can be partially corrected by paying more attention to the touch behaviours of animals. We argue that a careful examination of the ways in which animals engage in and navigate touch interactions can shed new ligh…
Ubuntu in Elephant Communities
African (Bantu) philosophy conceptualizes morality through ubuntu , which emphasizes the role of community in producing moral agents. This community is characterized by practices that respond to and value interdependence, such as care, cooperation, and respect for elders and ancestral knowledge. While there have been attributions of morality to nonhuman animals in the interdisciplinary animal morality debate, this debate has focused on Western co…
Biology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Morality (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · African philosophy (1 work) · Animal behavior (1 work)