Positive Duties to Wild Animals

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have never previously been used to ground our positive duties to wild animals. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment.

List of contents

1. Positive Duties to Wild Animals: Introduction 2. Wild Animals Ethics: A Freedom-Based Approach 3. Vulnerability and the Ethics of Environmental Enhancement 4. Solidarity with Wild Animals 5. Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Effectively: Why Impracticability and Normative Objections Fail Against the Most Promising Ways of Helping Wild Animals 6. Welcoming, Wild Animals, and Obligations to Assist 7. The Rebugnant Conclusion: Utilitarianism, Insects, Microbes, and AI Systems

About the author

Kyle Johannsen is a Sessional Faculty Member in the Department of Philosophy at Trent University, and an Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) fellow at Queen's University. He's also a podcast host on the New Books Network's Animal Studies Channel.

Summary

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have never previously been used to ground our positive duties to wild animals. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment.

Product details

• Authors: Kyle (Trent University Johannsen
• Assisted by: Kyle Johannsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032898186
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289818-6
• No. of pages: 114
• Series: Routledge Environmental Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Zoology & animal sciences, Ethics & moral philosophy, Animals & society, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Ethics and moral philosophy, Animals and society, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Zoology and animal sciences, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental