Bob Fischer

The Ethics of Eating Animals

Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contends that the major arguments for veganism fail: they don't establish the right sort of connection between producing and eating animal-based foods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9780367230043
• ISBN-10: 0367230046
• Artikelnr.: 57733934

Autorenporträt

Bob Fischer teaches philosophy at Texas State University. He's the author of Animal Ethics - A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, forthcoming) and the editor of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Contemporary Animal Agriculture
3. Bad Arguments for Eating Animals
4. Utilitarianism and the Causal Inefficacy Problem
5. Causal Inefficacy Aside, Utilitarianism Requires Eating Unusually
6. The Rights View and the Production/Consumption Gap
7. Eating Animals the Rights Way
8. Beyond Utilitarianism and the Rights View
9. Activist Ethics
10. Taking Stock

Rezensionen

"This is one of the most honest books I've ever read. Rather than grinding an axe, Fischer follows the reasons to the conclusions they support-conclusions at odds with what he had hoped to establish." - Donald Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington, USA