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Animals and the Study of Consciousness

The nature and extent of consciousness in animals has been the source of hot debate in the scientific community. This paper examin...

The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

The Science of Consciousness

not sound in this matter due to the inability to gather all necessary data prior to the reduction (Cooney, 1999). Without the cor...

The Environmental Impact of the Element Cadmium

of problems with cadmium have not been ignored. Such concerns have been voiced over the past twenty-year or so and early issues h...

Bad Faith Concept of Jean Paul Sartre

rise to apprehension and fear, the individual then takes refuge in conscious reflection, which forms the second stage. However, th...

Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

'What Is It Like to be a Bat?' According to Nagel

not something that is specific to human beings; in fact, man is likely the only species that truly does not understand the depth a...

Prohibiting Laboratory Experiments on Primates, Cats, and Dogs

animals for whatever purpose he deems necessary without a thought for the animals needs. The issues that surround animal rights a...

Predicting Adolescent Crime

external controls are social and legal. Socialization is the reason for law-abiding citizens. Hirschi later offered a social bond...

The Case Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Humane Society Issues and Animal Cruelty

In a paper consisting of five pages the issue of animal rights are emphasized in this consideration of animal cruelty and the prob...

The Call of the Wild Still Calls

as he is "jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial" when a known and trusted human sell...

An Article Review on How Human Lives Are Saved by Animal Research

populations are exposed to the polio. In order to create a true research experiment, the subjects would be numbered and the doses...

Pros and Cons of Animals Being Used for Medical Research Purposes

such critical components as antibiotics, blood transfusions, dialysis, organ transplantation, vaccinations, chemotherapy, bypass ...

Sexual Mimicry and its Behavioral and Physiological Elements

between gender-specific characteristics and the process by which animals pursued beneficial reproductive dynamics. Theorists have...

Global Warming and Animals

the words of one individual, referring to studies involving plant and animal life in recent years, it seems that half of the plant...

Animal Testing

involve things humans use and things that clearly damage animals in many ways. In looking at the debate, however, one must look ...

An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

'Double Consciousness' and W.E. B. Du Bois

self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world" (Du Bois [1]). It is this par...

Double Consciousness Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois

anothers eyes, as it creates a sense of "twoness" (Perkins and Rice, 2000). In other words, African Americans saw themselves both ...

Adaptive Consciousness

Human consciousness has proved very adaptive throughout our existence. This paper discusses the nature of human consciousness and ...

Conflict and Characterization in Faulkner, Joyce, and James

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

The role of emotion and cognition in the development of consciousness.

This paper looks at the part played by emotion and cognition in the way we develop consciousness. Psychologists such as Ellis have...

Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained

there is some degree of understanding regarding what is meant by the term consciousness and how we can so easily define which are ...

Non Human Primate Study on a Zoo Trip

of their environment, they agreed to stay. And while they lived, as they might outside of the much watched house, there were certa...

The Study of Learning

models that could be related to different aspects of human behavior. Pavlov believed that studying conditioning, which is a learn...

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse on Consciousness's Pain and Joy

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

'A Psychobiological Approach to Shamanic Altered States of Consciousness' by Pegg A. Wright

In five pages this article that appeared in the ReVision journal in 1994 is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

'Health as Expanding Consciousness' Nursing Philosophy of Margaret Newman

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...