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Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy

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Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy

Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent attention largely unexamined.

This timely collection of essays brings together new theory and critical perspectives on key topics in animal ethics, foregrounding questions relating to moral status, moral epistemology and moral psychology. Is an individualistic approach based upon capacities the best way to ground the moral status of non-human animals or should philosophers pursue relational perspectives? What does it mean to â€œknowâ€ animals and â€œspeakâ€ for them? What is the role of emotions such as disgust, empathy, and love, in animal ethics and how does emotion inform the rationalism inherent in analytic animal ethics theory?

The collection aims to broaden the scope of animal ethics, rendering it more inclusive of important contemporary philosophical themes and pushing the discipline in new directions.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781783481835
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Rowman & Littlefield International
Manufacturer	Rowman & Littlefield International
NumberOfPages	238
PublicationDate	2014-11-24
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield International
ReleaseDate	2014-11-24
Studio	Rowman & Littlefield International

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