Ethics and Animals: An Introduction

by Lori Gruen

• ISBN13: 9780521717731
• ISBN10: 0521717736
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Reflects on our ethical obligations and responsibilities to other animals, encouraging readers to engage with the philosophical issues at stake.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Why animals matter	p. 1
Analyzing human exceptionalism	p. 4
Who is ethically considerable?	p. 25
Attending to other animals	p. 33
The natural and the normative	p. 4
Doing what comes naturally	p. 47
Species and speciesism	p. 50
Humans and persons	p. 55
Moral agents and moral patients	p. 60
The argument from marginal cases	p. 64
Eating animals	p. 76
The evolution of industrial agriculture	p. 78
Living and dying on factory farms	p. 82
Arguments against factory farms	p. 86
Is vegetarianism ethically required?	p. 92
Experimenting with animals	p. 105
The pursuit of knowledge	p. 108
Changing attitudes and developing regulations	p. 111
Animal pain and psychological well-being	p. 114
Weighing values	p. 118
Abolition of animal experimentation	p. 126
Dilemmas of captivity	p. 130
Zoos	p. 136
Liberty	p. 141
Autonomy	p. 144
Wild dignity	p. 151
Companion animals	p. 155
Sanctuary	p. 158
Animals in the wild	p. 163
Extinction	p. 166
The value of species	p. 169
Conflicts between humans and wild animals	p. 174
Conflicts between animals	p. 179
Conflicts between native species and non-native species	p. 185
Animal protection	p. 188
Can the ends justify the means?	p. 192
Strategies for fighting speciesism	p. 195
Empathetic action	p. 205
References	p. 207
Index	p. 224
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