Ethical and political approaches to nonhuman animal issues. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Woodhall, Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, editors.
• Editors: Woodhall, Andrew; Trindade, Gabriel Garmendia da
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 179.3; Philosophy; Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects; Animal rights -- Political aspects; Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects; PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects; Human-animal relationships -- Moral and ethical aspects; Philosophy -- Political; Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Bio-ethics; Philosophy of nature; Ethics; Political science_xPhilosophy; Bioethics; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319545493; 3319545493
• Related ISBNs: 9783319545486; 3319545485
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2017).
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