Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction Fischer Bob
Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction Fischer Bob There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. Bob Fischer's Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering…
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Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction Fischer Bob
There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. Bob Fischer's Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. There aren't many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics.
It also covers a range of relatively neglected issues in animal ethics, such as the possibility of insect sentience and the ethics of dealing with pests. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but tackles them in an empirically informed and nuanced way. Finally, the book doesn't assess every current practice using standard ethical theories, but tries to evaluate some of them using the moral frameworks endorsed by those involved.
So, for instance, there is a chapter on the way that animal care and use committees try to justify some of the