Animal Ethics and Philosophy

Questioning the Orthodoxy
Herausgeber: Aaltola, Elisa; Hadley, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together new theory and critical perspectives on a broad range of topics in animal ethics, this book examines the implications of recent developments in the various fields that bear upon animal ethics. Showcasing a new generation of thinkers, it exposes some important shortcomings in existing animal rights theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781783481828
• ISBN-10: 178348182X
• Artikelnr.: 41627628

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elisa Aaltola and John Hadley

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Questioning the Orthodoxy, John Hadley and Elisa Aaltola
Part I: Intrinsic Value and Moral Status: Rethinking Sentience
1. A Meta-level Problem for Animal Rights Theory, John Hadley
2. Against Moral Intrinsicalism, Nicolas Delon
3. Beyond Sentience: Biosemiotics as Foundation for Animal and Environmental Ethics, Morton Tonnesen and Jonathan Beever
4. Animal Agency: What It Is, What It Isn't, and How It Can be Realized, Zipporah Weisberg
Part II: Epistemology: Knowing and Speaking for Nonhuman Animals
5. Enchanted Worlds and Animal Others, Wayne Williams
6. 'The Flesh of My Flesh': Animality, Difference, and 'Radical' Community in Merleau-Ponty's Late Philosophy, Jonathan D. Singer
7. The Problem of Speaking for Animals, Jason Wyckoff
8. Doing Away with Rights, Elizabeth Foreman
Part III: Moral Psychology: Emotions and Metaethics
9. Disgust and the Collection of Bovine Foetal Blood, Robert Fischer
Hume on Animals and the Rest of Nature, Angela Coventry and Avram Hiller
11.The Politicization of Animal Love, Tony Milligan
12. The Sentimentalism Revival and Animal Philosophy, Elisa Aaltola
Further Reading
Index