Kant and Animals

by Callanan, John J.; Allais, Lucy

• ISBN13: 9780198859918
• ISBN10: 0198859910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-06-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

John J. Callanan, King's College London,Lucy Allais, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

John J. Callanan is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. His research focuses on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy as well as various other Early Modern philosophers.



Lucy Allais is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Henry Allison Chair of the History of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. She has authored a book on Kant's transcendental idealism, Manifest Reality (Oxford, 2015), and a number of articles on Kant's theoretical philosophy, as well as papers on forgiveness and other topics in ethics.

Table of Contents

Notes on Sources and Translations
Introduction, John J. Callanan and Lucy Allais
I. Theoretical Philosophy
1. The Comparison of Animals, John J. Callanan
2. Animals and Objectivity, Colin McLear
3. What Do Animals See? Intentionality, Objects, and Kantian Nonconceptualism, Sacha Golob
4. Kant on Nonhuman Animals and God, Ina Goy
5. Animality in Kant's Account of Human Nature, David Baumeister
6. Kant on Evolution: A Re-evaluation, Alix Cohen
II. Practical Philosophy
7. Directionality and Virtuous Ends, Arthur Ripstein and Sergio Tenenbaum
8. Kant and Responsibility for Animals, Helga Varden
9. What Do We Owe to Animals? Kant on Non-Intrinsic Value, Carol Hay
10. Against the Construction of Animal Ethical Standing, Jon Garthoff
11. Hope and the Threshold Chicken: A Kantian Argument Against Purchasing Meat, Andrew Chignell