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Author: John J. Callanan
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0198859910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is devoted entirely to exploring the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant. Leading scholars address questions regarding the possibility of objective representation and intentionality in animals, the role of animals in Kant's scientific picture of nature, the status of our moral responsibilities to animals' welfare, and more.
Author: Christine Marion Korsgaard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0198753853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals
Author: Tom Regan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780520054608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780826494047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this acclaimed book, Scruton takes the issues relating to vivisection, hunting, animal testing and BSE and places them in a wider framework of thought and feeling. Now available in paperback
Author: Tatjana Višak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0199396086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. This volume presents a collection of contributions from major thinkers in ethics and animal welfare, with a special focus on the moral evaluation of killing animals.
Author: Matthew C. Altman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-08-26
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1118114132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant’s ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses Examines the controversies surrounding the most important ethical discussions taking place today, including abortion, the death penalty, and same-sex marriage Joins innovative thinkers in contemporary Kantian scholarship, including Christine Korsgaard, Allen Wood, and Barbara Herman, in taking Kant’s philosophy in new and interesting directions Clarifies Kant's legacy for applied ethics, helping us to understand how these debates have been structured historically and providing us with the philosophical tools to address them
Author: Toby Svoboda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1317498445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human organisms in their own right and to value their flourishing independently of human interests, since doing so is constitutive of certain (environmental) virtues. Svoboda argues that Kant’s account of indirect duties regarding nature can ground a compelling environmental ethic: the Kantian duty to develop morally virtuous dispositions strictly proscribes unnecessarily harming organisms, and it also gives us moral reason to act in ways that benefit such organisms. Svoboda’s account engages the recent literature on environmental virtue (including Rosalind Hursthouse, Philip Cafaro, Ronald Sandler, Thomas Hill, and Louke van Wensveen) and provides an original argument for an environmental ethic firmly rooted in Kant’s moral philosophy.
Author: Mark Rowlands
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 019024030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan animals act morally? Philosophical tradition answers "no," and has apparently convincing arguments on its side. Cognitive ethology supplies a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests these arguments are wrong. This groundbreaking book assimilates both philosophical and ethological frameworks into a unified whole and argues for a qualified "yes."
Author: Robert Wright
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-08-29
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0679763996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review). "Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book Review Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. Illustrations.
Author: Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-28
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1107047943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and Korsgaard concludes with her own version of the Kantian account. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.
