While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. This volume presents a collection of contributions from major thinkers in ethics and animal welfare, with a special focus on the moral evaluation of killing animals.
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. This volume presents a collection of contributions from major thinkers in ethics and animal welfare, with a special focus on the moral evaluation of killing animals.
Tatjana Visak is a postdoctoral fellow at the Philosophy Department of Mannheim University and the Philosophy Department of Saarland University, Germany. Robert Garner is Professor of Politics at the University of Leicester.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Contributors * List of Figures * Acknowledgments * Introduction (Tatjana Visak and Robert Garner) * Part I: Animals and the Harm of Death * 1. Killing as a Welfare Issue (T.J. Kasperbauer and Peter Sandøe) * 2. Death, Pain and Animal Life (Christopher Belshaw) * 3. Is Death Bad for a Cow? (Ben Bradley) * 4. The Comparative Badness for Animals of Suffering and Death (Jeff McMahan) * 5. Animal Interests (Steven Luper) * 6. The Value of Coming into Existence (Nils Holtug) * Part II: Moral Evaluation of Killing Animals * 7. Do Utilitarians Need to Accept the Replaceability Argument? (Tatjana Visak) * 8. Singer on Killing Animals (Shelly Kagan) * 9. A Kantian Case for Animal Rights (Christine Korsgaard) * 10. Kantian Constructivism and the Ethics of Killing Animals (Frederike Kaldewaij) * Part III: Killing Animals and the Politicization of Normative Ethics * 11. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? Specifying the Rights of Animals (Alasdair Cochrane) * 12. Welfare, Rights, and Non-ideal Theory (Robert Garner) * Afterword by Peter Singer * References * Index
* List of Contributors * List of Figures * Acknowledgments * Introduction (Tatjana Visak and Robert Garner) * Part I: Animals and the Harm of Death * 1. Killing as a Welfare Issue (T.J. Kasperbauer and Peter Sandøe) * 2. Death, Pain and Animal Life (Christopher Belshaw) * 3. Is Death Bad for a Cow? (Ben Bradley) * 4. The Comparative Badness for Animals of Suffering and Death (Jeff McMahan) * 5. Animal Interests (Steven Luper) * 6. The Value of Coming into Existence (Nils Holtug) * Part II: Moral Evaluation of Killing Animals * 7. Do Utilitarians Need to Accept the Replaceability Argument? (Tatjana Visak) * 8. Singer on Killing Animals (Shelly Kagan) * 9. A Kantian Case for Animal Rights (Christine Korsgaard) * 10. Kantian Constructivism and the Ethics of Killing Animals (Frederike Kaldewaij) * Part III: Killing Animals and the Politicization of Normative Ethics * 11. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? Specifying the Rights of Animals (Alasdair Cochrane) * 12. Welfare, Rights, and Non-ideal Theory (Robert Garner) * Afterword by Peter Singer * References * Index
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