Ethical and political approaches to nonhuman animal issues / Andrew Woodhall, Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woodhall, Andrew, editor.

Trindade, Gabriel Garmendia da, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal welfare.

Animal rights--Political aspects.

Animal rights.

Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Contents:

Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues; Foreword; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; For the Reader's Use; 2 Making Light of the Ethical? The Ethics and Politics of Animal Rights; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Ethical Theory and Human Nature; 2.3 The Failure of ART?; 2.4 Utilitarianism and Nonhuman Animals; 2.5 Regan's Case for Animal Rights; 2.6 Contractualism; 2.7 Nonhuman Animals as Objects and Subjects; Bibliography; 3 Far-Persons; 3.1 Introduction: What's It Like to Be a Pig?; 3.2 Persons; 3.3 Near-Persons

3.4 The Merely Sentient3.5 The Problem, Restated: Are Pigs Merely Sentient?; 3.6 Far-Persons; 3.7 What Is the Value of Lyrical Experience?; 3.8 The Moral Status of Far-Persons; 3.9 Conclusion; Bibliography; 4 Evolution to Liberation: Political Reflections on Morality and Nonhumans; 4.1 My Goal; 4.2 Beginning Points; 4.3 What Is Morality for?; 4.4 The Origin of Morality; 4.4.1 Why Do We Have Non-Self-Centered Feelings?; 4.4.2 Why Do We Seek to Strengthen Our Other-Centered Feelings?; 4.4.3 What Does This Evolutionary Analysis Tell Us About Morality?; 4.5 Practical Inferences; 4.6 Summary

7 Justice for Animals in a Globalising World7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Global Justice; 7.3 Nonhuman Animals, Institutional Violence, and the Domain of Justice: The Need to Think Globally; 7.3.1 Trade in Animal Bodies; 7.3.2 Habitat Destruction; 7.3.3 Adaption to Climate Change; 7.3.4 Assistance in Conflict Situations and Natural Disasters; 7.4 Extending Cosmopolitanism Across Species Boundaries; 7.5 Why Cosmopolitanism for Animals; 7.6 Conclusion; Bibliography; 8 Animal Rights and the Distorting Power of Anthropocentric Prejudice; 8.1 The Question of Nonhuman Animal Personhood

8.2 The Question of Nonhuman Animal Rights8.3 The Question of Specific Human Duties Toward Nonhuman Animals; Bibliography; 9 Interspecies Encounters and the Political Turn: From Dialogues to Deliberation; 9.1 Nonhuman Animal Agency and Interspecies Dialogues; 9.1.1 Animal Deliberation on the Farm; 9.2 From Dialogues to Deliberation; 9.2.1 From Political Nonhuman Animal Agency to Deliberation Between Human and Nonhuman Animals; 9.2.2 Democratic Inclusion and Forms of Speech; 9.2.3 Animal Languages; 9.2.4 Embodied Political Communication; 9.3 From Dialogue to Deliberation: A Systemic View.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2017).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783319545493

3319545493

Publisher Number:

99993281675

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