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Selected Works

2013

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Full-Text Articles in Animal Studies

Why Do Small Dogs Have So Many Psychological Problems?, Harold Herzog Dec 2013

Why Do Small Dogs Have So Many Psychological Problems?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Do little dogs suffer from the Napoleon Complex?

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What Do People Care More About? Animal Abuse Or Child Abuse, Harold Herzog Nov 2013

What Do People Care More About? Animal Abuse Or Child Abuse, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

An experiment tests the hypothesis that we care more about puppies than kids.

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"Dogs Are Persons!" (The Other Side Of The Debate), Harold Herzog Oct 2013

"Dogs Are Persons!" (The Other Side Of The Debate), Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Three animal protectionists explain why I am wrong about animal personhood.

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Are Dogs People? Really?, Harold Herzog Oct 2013

Are Dogs People? Really?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Why MRI studies of the canine brain do not prove that "dogs are people."

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Animal Cruelty And The Sadism Of Everyday Life, Harold Herzog Sep 2013

Animal Cruelty And The Sadism Of Everyday Life, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

New studies shed light on the psychology of animal cruelty.

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Why Do Human Friends (But Not Pets) Make People Live Longer?, Harold Herzog Jul 2013

Why Do Human Friends (But Not Pets) Make People Live Longer?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

The lack of a "pet effect" on human longevity is puzzling.

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Would You Save A Puppy Or A Child From A Burning Building?, Harold Herzog Jun 2013

Would You Save A Puppy Or A Child From A Burning Building?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

A new study shows when we choose pets over people.

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Should We De-Sex All Of Our Pets?, Harold Herzog Feb 2013

Should We De-Sex All Of Our Pets?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

The ethics of neutering companion animals gets complicated.

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Crustacean Rights: The Case Of The "Lucky" Crabs, Harold Herzog Jan 2013

Crustacean Rights: The Case Of The "Lucky" Crabs, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Is it moral to rip the "arms" off a living creature?

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'Marvel At The Intelligence Of Unthinking Creatures!': Contemplative Animals In Gregory Of Nazianzus And Evagrius Of Pontus., Eric D. Meyer Dec 2012

'Marvel At The Intelligence Of Unthinking Creatures!': Contemplative Animals In Gregory Of Nazianzus And Evagrius Of Pontus., Eric D. Meyer

Eric Meyer

In The Animal that Therefore I Am, Derrida queries what (or who) feeds at the limit between the human and the animal. What is it that is nourished by this distinction? Who stands to benefit from maintaining a single line, a clean cut between the human and the animal. By the end of the text he has come to the conclusion that the thinking subject (the je suis that both ‘follows’ the animal and recognizes itself by means of the encounter with the animal) must be something neither dead nor alive; the ‘je suis’ is neither animal nor some thing …

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