In this essay, we explore the philosophical and ethical issues concerning de-extinction. First,
we will characterize what de-extinction is. This requires clarification of the process of …

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I will entertain and reject three arguments which putatively establish that the individuals
produced through de-extinction ought to be the same species as the extinct population …

TJ Kasperbauer presents an analysis of the ethics of de-extinction that is fairly distinctive in
its focus on the welfare of individual animals. But while he is right to express concerns about …

Abstract" De-extinction" projects propose to re-create or" resurrect" extinct species. Perhaps
the most common justification offered for these projects is that humans have an obligation to …

Cafaro and Primack (2014) accuse us of what might be called" conservation immorality" for
failing to express sufficient outrage about extinction and failing to champion the intrinsic …

There now appears to be a plausible pathway for reviving species that have been extinct for
several decades, centuries, or even millennia. I conducted an ethical analysis of de …

A number of influential biologists are currently pursuing efforts to restore previously extinct
species. But for decades, philosophers of biology have regarded “de-extinction” as …

This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western
analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible …

De-extinction of species has been criticised for being unnatural, as have the techniques that
might be used to accomplish de-extinction. This objection of unnaturalness will be dismissed …