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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gruen, Lori. Ethics and animals. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010041515 (OCoLC)663441407 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lori Gruen |
ISBN: | 9780511991134 0511991134 9780511993145 0511993145 9780511976162 051197616X 9780511989322 0511989326 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976162 |
OCLC Number: | 705009277 |
Awards: | Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2011 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) |
Contents: | 1. Why animals matter. Analyzing human exceptionalism ; Who is ethically considerable? ; Attending to other animals -- 2. The natural and the normative. Doing what comes naturally ; Species and speciesism ; Humans and persons ; Moral agents and moral patients ; The argument from marginal cases -- 3. Eating animals. The evolution of industrial agriculture ; Living and dying on factory farms ; Arguments against factory farms ; Is vegetarianism ethically required? -- 4. Experimenting with animals. The pursuit of knowledge ; Changing attitudes and developing regulations ; Animal pain and psychological well-being ; Weighing values ; Abolition of animal experimentation -- 5. Dilemmas of captivity. Zoos ; Liberty ; Autonomy ; Wild dignity ; Companion animals ; Sanctuary -- 6. Animals in the wild. Extinction ; The value of species ; Conflicts between humans and wild animals ; Conflicts between animals ; Conflicts between native species and non-native species -- 7. Animal protection. Can the ends justify the means? ; Strategies for fighting speciesism ; Empathetic action. |
Series Title: | Cambridge applied ethics. |
Responsibility: | Lori Gruen. |
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'Ethics and Animals is a work of exceptional clarity and intelligence, and it is hard to imagine how it could be surpassed as a concise introduction to the competing philosophical approaches that underpin contemporary animal protection.' Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO, The Humane Society of the United States 'Ethics and Animals is a wonderfully readable introduction to the range of issues that come under that heading. Lori Gruen is not only a fine philosopher, but also a person with genuine empathy for animals, and the ability to express that in writing.' Peter Singer, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University Read more...