A review of research on animal ethics and tourism, based on a sample of 74 articles in ten
tourism journals is presented. A range of ethics positions was identified including rights …

Human cerebral organoids (HCOs) are an in vitro model of early neural development, aimed
at modelling and understanding brain development and neurological disorders. In just a few …

Who, or what, is a'person'according to the law? How did this understanding of personhood
come about? In the twenty-first century, environmentalism, animal rights, artificial …

Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among
roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents …

Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science,
data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell …

Consciousness plays an important role in debates around the mind-body problem, the
controversy over strong vs. weak artificial intelligence (AI), and bioethics. Strikingly …

Human cerebral organoids are three-dimensional biological cultures grown in the laboratory
to mimic as closely as possible the cellular composition, structure, and function of the …

This paper provides a systematic account of how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies
could harm nonhuman animals and explains why animal harms, often neglected in AI ethics …

Can machines be conscious and what would be the ethical implications? This article gives
an overview of current robotics approaches toward machine consciousness and considers …

While philosophers have been debating for decades on whether different entities—including
severely disabled human beings, embryos, animals, objects of nature, and even works of art …