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The ethics of killing animals / edited by Tatjana Višak and Robert Garner, with afterword by Peter Singer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal welfare.
- Animal rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Animal rights.
- Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title examines the fields of value theory, normative and applied ethics on the issue of killing animals. It addresses a number of questions: Can painless killing harm or benefit an animal and, if so, why and under what conditions? Can coming into existence harm or benefit an animal? Is killing animals morally acceptable? Should animals have the legal right to life? In addressing these questions, animal rights and animal welfare positions are articulated and debated by some of the foremost thinkers on these issues, with a distinction made between rights-based and utilitarian approaches.
- Contents:
- pt. I : Animals and the harm of death
- 1. Killing as a welfare issue / T.J. Kasperbauer and Peter Sandøe
- 2. Death, pain, and animal life / Christopher Belshaw
- 3. Is death bad for a cow? / Ben Bradley
- 4. The comparative badness for animals of suffering and death / Jeff McMahan
- 5. Animal interests / Steven Luper
- 6. The value of coming into existence / Nils Holtug
- pt. II. Moral evaluation of killing animals
- 7. Do utilitarians need to accept the replaceability argument? / Tatjana Višak
- 8. Singer on killing animals / Shelly Kagan
- 9. A Kantian case for animal rights / Christine M. Korsgaard
- 10. Kantian constructivism and the ethics of killing animals / Frederike Haldewaij
- pt. III. Killing animals and the politicization of normative ethics
- 11. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Specifying the rights of animals / Alasdair Cochrane
- 12. Welfare, rights, and non-ideal theory / Robert Garner.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-939610-8
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