Fellow Creatures Our Obligations to the Other Animals

by Korsgaard, Christine M.

• ISBN13: 9780198854876
• ISBN10: 0198854870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-03-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Christine M. Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1991. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. Before coming to teach at Harvard she held positions at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago, and visiting positions at Berkeley and UCLA. She is the author of The Sources of Normativity (1996), Creating the Kingdom of Ends (1996), The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology (2008), and Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (2009).

Table of Contents

Part One: Human Beings and the Other Animals
1. Are People More Important than the Other Animals?
2. Animal Selves and the Good
3. What's Different about Being Human?
4. The Case Against Human Superiority
Part Two: Immanuel Kant and the Animals
5. Kant, Marginal Cases, and Moral Standing
6. Kant Against the Animals, Part 1: The Indirect Duty View
7. Kant Against the Animals, Part 2: Reciprocity and the Grounds of Obligation
8. A Kantian Case for Our Obligations to the Other Animals
9. The Role of Pleasure and Pain
Part Three: Consequences
10. The Animal Antinomy, Part 1: Creation Ethics
11. Species, Communities, and Habitat Loss
12. The Animal Antinomy, Part 2: Abolition and Apartheid