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Girl, Timothy Eves
Girl, Timothy Eves
Between the Species
“Girl” is a short story about the relationship a family has with their dog. Over the course of the dog’s life, the family grapples with a series of moral issues, including abuse of companion animals, euthanasia of companion animals, and the ethics of diet.
Review Of Lori Gruen's Critical Terms For Animal Studies, Angus Taylor
Review Of Lori Gruen's Critical Terms For Animal Studies, Angus Taylor
Between the Species
Review of Critical Terms for Animal Studies, edited by Lori Gruen
Living Like A Dog: Can The Life Of Non-Human Animals Be Meaningful?, Michael Hauskeller
Living Like A Dog: Can The Life Of Non-Human Animals Be Meaningful?, Michael Hauskeller
Between the Species
Most philosophers addressing the issue of meaning in life seem to think that non-human animals cannot have a meaningful life because only humans have what it takes to do so. In this paper, I discuss three prominent philosophical theories of meaning in life, all of which implicitly or explicitly deny non-human animals the possibility of living a meaningful life. I will argue that none of them is convincing and that we should embrace a more comprehensive and inclusive understanding of meaning in life that allows for non-human lives to be meaningful and in their own right worth living.
Torture And The Corrida, Andrew Brei
Torture And The Corrida, Andrew Brei
Between the Species
In recent years the debate over the moral status of bullfighting has been focused on whether or not it should be characterized as a form of torture. Francis Wolff has argued that it should not be, and Gabriel Andrade has claimed that it should be. But in my view neither author adequately defines bullfighting or torture. In this essay I have three goals. The first is to provide an adequate account of bullfighting, including its structure and meaning. The second is to define the necessary conditions for torture. And the third is to show that bullfighting meets those conditions. Thus, …
Review Of The Oxford Handbook Of Food Ethics, Josh Milburn
Review Of The Oxford Handbook Of Food Ethics, Josh Milburn
Between the Species
The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett, contains 35 chapters over 8 sections. Many of these chapters are directly relevant to animal ethicists. Even many of those that do not initially appear to be, however, should be of interest. I thoroughly recommend The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics to all animal ethicists interested in addressing food-related questions in their research or teaching.
Review Of Dominique Lestel's Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto, Angus Taylor
Review Of Dominique Lestel's Eat This Book: A Carnivore's Manifesto, Angus Taylor
Between the Species
Dominique Lestel sets out to demolish the fundamental claims of ethical vegetarianism (including veganism) and to propose as an alternative what he calls ethical carnivorism. Although he fails to present a logically sound case against ethical vegetarianism, that fact is unlikely to diminish the lure of the “circle of life” ideology that he articulates.
Review Of Christine Korsgaard's Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations To The Other Animals, A. G. Holdier
Review Of Christine Korsgaard's Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations To The Other Animals, A. G. Holdier
Between the Species
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Fishy Reasoning And The Ethics Of Eating, Mylan Engel Jr.
Fishy Reasoning And The Ethics Of Eating, Mylan Engel Jr.
Between the Species
Ethical vegetarians believe that it is morally wrong to eat meat. Yet, many self-ascribed “ethical vegetarians” continue to eat fish. The question I explore here is this: Can one coherently maintain that it is morally wrong to eat meat, but morally permissible to eat fish? I argue that it is morally inconsistent for ethical vegetarians to eat fish, not on the obvious yet superficial ground that fish flesh is meat, but on the morally substantive ground that fish are sentient intelligent beings capable of experiencing morally significant pain and thus deserve moral consideration equal to that owed birds and mammals.
On The Ethical Significance Of Ecological Restoration: Domination Or Collaboration?, Roger J.H. King
On The Ethical Significance Of Ecological Restoration: Domination Or Collaboration?, Roger J.H. King
Between the Species
Ecological restoration is essential both to a sustainable human culture and to the well being of the more-than-human world. Yet some philosophers criticize enthusiasm for restoration as yet another manifestation of human domination and anthropocentric arrogance. The paper critiques this view as persistently presented by Eric Katz, and offers an alternative view of restoration’s ethical significance. Rather than seeing restoration as a unilateral human imposition on nature, restoration deserves defense as an expression of an interspecies etiquette, attentive to collaboration with the more-than-human world. But the full ethical significance of ecological restoration will not be realized without deep change in …
Bentham And The “Famous Footnote”, Randall Otto
Bentham And The “Famous Footnote”, Randall Otto
Between the Species
It is the contention of this paper that animal liberationists have misconstrued and misused Bentham’s “famous footnote” as an advocacy of species equivalency of interests, as though he were an incipient opponent of what has come to be known as “speciesism.” The context of Bentham’s footnote was of mistreatment of others that are capable of feeling pain. He was advocating in the footnote for laws that would end what he viewed as instances of cruelty toward animals. He was not advocating for vegetarianism or an end to killing animals where they can be of benefit to human beings, where “we …