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Simran Puri

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Two distinctive trends within environmental ethics and animal ethics have backgrounded questions about urban animals. First, within environmental ethics, a focus on the wilderness has historically been foregrounded over human-influenced environments, and second, within animal ethics, not only has the focus been on more urgent harms but also the ethical prescriptions have traditionally been universalist, based solely on animal capacities, abstracted from their particular contexts. These trends have led to a sort of "invisibilization" of urban wildlife, and, I will argue, that this ignorance is morally culpable, at least to some degree. Since the urban setting consists of many varied human-animal interactions and histories, more careful analysis of ethical relationships in this environment seems to be called for. In this thesis, I will be exploring a distinctively urban animal ethics. I will focus specifically on sentient urban wildlife and will first argue that, on the basis of their sentience and capacity to suffer, animals matter and are morally considerable. I will focus my research on a) feral animals who were formerly companion animals, b) "pest" animals, and c) relict populations that have been trapped within urban pockets. To inform my research, I will draw on existing literature that emphasizes more nuanced, contextual approaches to human-animal relationships, and these approaches will help me to develop a critique of existing human-urban wildlife relationships and ultimately an account of what ethical relations should look like. Validation of the Performance of the GEM GE2/1 muon Detectors for the CMS Experiment at the LHC Using Cosmic Ray Data Kyla Martinez

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Texas A&M University / 2024

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