How to Count Animals, more or less

A thorough, insightful, accessible, and immensely rewarding discussion of the kind of relative status we should seek between humans and nonhumans.

Auteur
Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale, where he has taught since 1995. He was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1982. Before coming to Yale, Professor Kagan taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Limits of Morality, Normative Ethics, and The Geometry of Desert. The videos of his undergraduate class on death (available online) have been popular around the world, and the book based on the course, Death, was a national bestseller in South Korea.

Texte du rabat

Shelly Kagan argues for a hierarchical position in animal ethics where people count more than animals do, and some animals count more than others. In arguing for his account of morality, Kagan sets out what needs to be done to establish our obligations toward animals and to fulfil our duties to them.

Contenu

• Introduction

• 1: Standing

• 2: Unitarianism

• 3: The Argument from Distribution

• 4: Hierarchy and the Value of Outcomes

• 5: Status

• 6: Worries about Hierarchy

• 7: Deontology

• 8: Restricted Deontology

• 9: Hierarchical Deontology

• 10: Defense

• 11: Limited Hierarchy