Bernard Rollin

Bernard Rollin ( born February 18, 1943) is an American philosopher and animal ethicists. He is Professor of Philosophy and Animal Sciences at Colorado State University.

Work

Rollin received his doctorate in 1972 from Columbia University. His research interests include traditional and applied philosophy. He became known in addition to the two-volume work, The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research (1989 & 1995), and by the 2012 featured film "The Superior Human? " ( " The superior man ?") In which he. Opposite direction to René Descartes philosophical position that it is in non-human animals is according to insentient and not thinking machines that argues for that other animals can think and feel

In the anthology work, The Cry unheeded. Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Science. (1989 ) recapitulates Rollin scientific debate about animal consciousness and in particular the pain sentience of animals from Charles Darwin to the late 20th century. He analyzed that the interplay of philosophical and historical developments, especially the denial of the res cogitans of Descartes in relation to animals and the rise of awareness skeptical behaviorism on the one hand and the emancipation and specialization of the individual sciences, including particularly true of psychology led on the other side to an extremely unfavorable situation for the animals of the 20th century. The scientific folklore proclaimed a continuous separation of science and ethics, the limitations in the course and the orientation of research as unscientific and restrictive entirely rejected. At the same time the behaviorist orientation for decades allowed an agnostic at best, but most decidedly negative attitude in relation to any morally relevant features of non-human animals. Thus the way was paved scientists, unrestricted and uncontrolled use animals for all the possible types of experiments. Rollin points out the absurdity of a mindset that on the one hand for decades with supposedly scientific justification (which in reality is a product of the acceptance of the behaviorist paradigm was ) stated emphatically, animals are unable to feel pain and can therefore eg be subjected without the use of analgesics surgery of any kind, and on the other side on animals carried out experiments as a test of knowledge about people defended, especially when it involves human pain or discomfort.

Rollin continues since the 1970s actively to improve the use of animals one, particularly in the fields of veterinary medicine and scientific use of animals. Through his efforts he achieved at many universities and research institutions far-reaching improvements in the use of laboratory animals. Rollin is widely renowned as a philosophical speaker on animal ethics - in the medical, scientific, political and Tierrechts-/Tierschutzbereich and is a member of numerous advisory committees. He argues for an adequate moral status of animals that have remained largely ignored in the history of philosophy and calls that animals can live their conspecific under Telos should. In Putting the Horse before Descartes. My Life 's Work on Behalf of Animals (2011) describes in detail Rollin its role in the gradual improvement of the position of animals in scientific, medical and political context.

Writings

  • Bernard E Rollin: Natural and Conventional meaning: An examination of the distinction. Mouton, 1976, ISBN 9,027,932,743th
  • Bernard E. Rollin: The Teaching of Responsibility. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare ( UFAW ), 1983, ISBN 0,900,767,332th
  • Bernard E. Rollin: The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research: A Survey of Scientific and Ethical Issues for Investigators, Volume I, 1, CRC Press, August 27, 1990, ISBN 0,849,349,818th
  • Bernard E. Rollin: Farm Animal Welfare: School, Bioethical, and Research Issues, 1, Iowa State Press, January 15, 1995, ISBN 0,813,825,636th
  • Bernard E. Rollin: The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals. Cambridge University Press, June 30, 1995 ISBN 0,521,478,073th
  • Bernard Rollin: The unheeded cry, 1, Wiley, May 11, 1999 ISBN 081382575X.
  • David W. Ramey, Bernard E. Rollin: Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered, 1, Wiley -Blackwell, November 17, 2003, ISBN 0,813,826,160th
  • G. John Benson, Bernard E. Rollin: The Well -Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions, 1, Wiley- Blackwell, January 19, 2004, ISBN 0,813,804,736th
  • Bernard E. Rollin: Science and Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 27 March 2006, ISBN 0521674182nd
  • Bernard E. Rollin: An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics: Theory And Cases, Second Edition, 2, Wiley -Blackwell, June 23, 2006 ISBN 0813803993rd
  • Bernard E. Rollin: Animal Rights & Human Morality, 3, Prometheus Books, September 30, 2006 ISBN 1591024218th
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