Positive Duties to Wild Animals

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-89818-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Ethics

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have never previously been used to ground our positive duties to wild animals.

Though we’ve always known that the wild is a nasty place where predators lethally attack prey, only recently have most animal ethicists come to realize that most wild animals fail to flourish. In fact, what we know about wild animal reproduction suggests that the majority of sentient beings born into the world may not even live lives worth living. It’s not unreasonable for one to initially respond to the above with a sense of depressed resignation, but a growing number of ethicists believe that we both can and should intervene. The purpose of this book is to further develop the interventionist literature by bringing together philosophers who agree that we have significant duties to help wild animals, but who use different theoretical frameworks, or who disagree about the details, e.g., about the reasons that ground our obligations to help wild animals, about how those obligations should be classified, about the content of our obligations, about the means we should use to fulfill our obligations, etc.

This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers and students of animal ethics, animal welfare, environmental ethics, philosophy, and sustainability. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johannsen, Kyle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Positive Duties to Wild Animals: Introduction 2. Wild Animals Ethics: A Freedom-Based Approach 3. Vulnerability and the Ethics of Environmental Enhancement 4. Solidarity with Wild Animals 5. Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Effectively: Why Impracticability and Normative Objections Fail Against the Most Promising Ways of Helping Wild Animals 6. Welcoming, Wild Animals, and Obligations to Assist 7. The Rebugnant Conclusion: Utilitarianism, Insects, Microbes, and AI Systems

Über Autor(innen)

Kyle Johannsen is a Sessional Faculty Member in the Department of Philosophy at Trent University, and an Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) fellow at Queen's University. He’s also a podcast host on the New Books Network's Animal Studies Channel.