Animals and Modern Cultures investigates the dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the twentieth century. In the early part of the century these were based on a categorical distinction between humans and animals, where animals were still largely …
Ethics
by Lewy, Casimir, Broad, Charlie Dunbar
fromNijhoff International Philosophy Series
This resource offers a survey of the animal rights movement. The author looks at the different concerns surrounding companion animals, wild animals, research animals, work animals, and animals used for food, provides an assessment of the treatment of animals, and addresses the …
Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. This book shifts the debat…
Can animals act for moral reasons? Philosophical tradition answers, almost univocally, "no." Recent work in cognitive ethology, however, points in the other direction. Philosophical tradition has apparently convincing arguments on its side. But cognitive ethology can point to …
Interrogates one of the most important environmental conflicts in recent science and technology history: the controversy about a proposed genetically engineered futurenatural. It investigates the political technologies and regulatory manoeuvres in Australia which aim to contain …
"Decentering Biotechnology" explores the nature of technology, objects and patent law. Investigating the patenting of organic life and the manner in which artifacts of biotechnology are given their objective appearance, Carolan details the enrollment mechanisms that give biotec…
1. Introduction 2. Ethical Concepts and Principles 3. Mobility, Borders and Security 4. Human Rights 5. Medical Tourism 6. Sex Tourism 7. Tourism and Indigenous Peoples 8. Tourism and Disability 9. Nature-based Tourism 10. Tourism and Animals 11. Climate Change 12. Hospitality a…
Utilitarianism and beyond
Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological root of the "Deep Ecology" movement spre…
Are animals worthy recipients of justice? If so, what do we owe them, and what is to be gained by using the language of justice when considering our duties toward them? A Theory of Justice for Animals, written by one of the foremost scholars of animal ethics, argues that not onl…