Sunday 12 February 2012

Champagne reference

Last year Marc Champagne published an article in Sign Systems Studies in which he refers to my 2003 article "Umwelt ethics". This is the complete reference:
Champagne, Marc 2011. Axiomatizing umwelt normativity [25-26, 57 – Tønnessen 2003: 287]. Sign Systems Studies 39.1: 9-59.
Excerpt (Champagne's footnote no. 31):
Tønnessen (2003: 287) remarks that Uexküll never discussed "whether attribution of moral status to animals is possible within a Kantian framework".
The context is (here presented as fragment only) the following sentence: "Whereas in Kant's philosophy we find epistemological solipsism coupled with an assignment of ethical primacy to the Other (Kant countenancing other minds in practice but not in theory),31 ..."

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