The Oxford handbook of animal ethics / edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and R.G. Frey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beauchamp, Tom L.

Frey, R. G. (Raymond Gillespie)

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal welfare.

Animal rights.

Physical Description:

xiii, 982 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction / Tom L. Beauchamp

Animals in classical and late antique philosophy / Stephen R.L. Clark

Animals and ethics in the history of modern philosophy / Aaron Garrett

Interacting with animals : a Kantian account / Christine M. Korsgaard

Virtue ethics and the treatment of animals / Rosalind Hursthouse

A Humean account of the status and character of animals / Julia Driver

Utilitarianism and animals / R.G. Frey

Rights theory and animal rights / Tom L. Beauchamp

The capabilities approach and animal entitlements / Martha Nussbaum

The idea of moral standing / Christopher W. Morris

Animals, fundamental moral standing, and speciesism / David Copp

Human animals and nonhuman persons / Sarah Chan and John Harris

Are nonhuman animals persons? / Michael Tooley

Animal mentality : its character, extent, and moral significance / Peter Carruthers

Mindreading and moral significance in nonhuman animals / José Luis Bermúdez

Minimal minds / Bryce Huebner

Beyond anthropomorphism : attributing psychological properties to animals / Kristin Andrews

Animal pain and welfare : can pain sometimes be worse for them than for us? / Sahar Akhtar

Animals that act for moral reasons / Mark Rowlands

The moral life of animals / Michael Bradie

On the origin of species notions and their ethical limitations / Mark Greene

On the nature of species and the moral significance of their extinction / Russell Powell

Are all species equal? / David Schmidtz

Genetically modified animals : should there be limits to engineering the animal kingdom? / Julian Savulescu

Human/nonhuman chimeras : assessing the issues / Henry T. Greely

The moral relevance of the distinction between domesticated and wild animals / Clare Palmer

The moral significance of animal pain and animal death / Elizabeth Harman

The ethics of confining animals : from farms to zoos to human homes / David DeGrazia

Keeping pets / Hilary Bok

Animal experimentation in biomedical research / Hugh LaFollette

Ethical issues in the application of biotechnology to animals in agriculture / Robert Streiffer and John Basl

Environmental ethics, hunting, and the place of animals / Gary Varner

Vegetarianism / Stuart Rachels

The use of animals in toxicological research / Andrew N. Rowan

What's ethics got to do with it? The roles of government regulation in research-animal protection / Jeffrey Kahn

Literary works and animal ethics / Tzachi Zamir.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195371963

0195371968

OCLC:

688643588