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Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the "kind" argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals.

Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.
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Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the "kind" argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals.

Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.
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VerlagBloomsbury eBooks US
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Seitenangabe326 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Abbildungen5 b/w illustrations;
Auflage16001 A. 1. Auflage
PlattformEPUB
AutorEngel Jr., Mylan (Hrsg.) / Comstock, Gary Lynn (Hrsg.)

Über den Autor Mylan (Hrsg.) Engel Jr.

Mylan Engel Jr. is Presidential Engagement Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. He specializes in epistemology and ethics. His work in epistemology focuses on epistemic luck, the internalism/externalism debate, the lottery paradox, the regress problem, and the role of reason and coherence in justification. His work in ethics focuses on moral epistemology and on applied ethics (especially animal ethics, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of food). Representative publications in epistemology include: "Personal and Doxastic Justification in Epistemology," Philosophical Studies; "Is Epistemic Luck Compatible with Knowledge?" Southern Journal of Philosophy; "Positism: The Unexplored Solution to the Epistemic Regress Problem," Metaphilosophy; "Epistemic Luck," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; "What's Wrong with Contextualism," Erkenntnis; "Lotteries, Knowledge, and Inconsistent Belief," Synthese; and "Coherentism and the Epistemic Justification of Moral Beliefs," Southern Journal of Philosophy; "Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology," Oxford Bibliographies; "Epistemology and the Ethics of Animal Experimentation," in Applied Epistemology, ed. Jennifer Lackey; and "Evidence, Epistemic Luck, Reliability, and Knowledge," Acta Analytica. He is co-editor of The Moral Rights of Animals (Lexington 2016) and co-author of The Philosophy of Animal Rights (Lantern 2010). Joseph Campbell recently retired as Professor of Philosophy from Washington State University after teaching at WSU for twenty-six years. His interests include free will, moral responsibility, skepticism, and the philosophy of David Hume, and he is an acknowledged expert on the consequence argument for incompatibilism. Campbell is co-founder of the Northwest Philosophy Conference, and a former Program Chair and Program Committee Member of the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Publications include "A Compatibilist Theory of Alternative Possibilities," Philosophical Studies; "Free Will and the Necessity of the Past," Analysis; "Comptatibilist Alternatives," Canadian Journal of Philosophy; "P. F. Strawson's Free Will Naturalism," International Journal for the Study of Skepticism; and "Keith Lehrer on Compatibilism" (co-written with Keith Lehrer), The Journal of Ethics. Campbell was also the recipient of two of WSU's most prestigious teaching awards: the Marion E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award (2005) and the Honors Thesis Advisor Award (2006). This is his 10th co-edited volume.

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