Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days.

List of contents

Day 1: Suffering, Intelligence, and the Risk Argument Day 2: Other Defenses of Meat Consumption Day 3: Consciousness and Rational Belief Day 4: The Vegan life, Abstract Theory, and Moral Motivation Day 5: Health, Religious Arguments, and Progressive Arguments Appendix 1: Recipes Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography

About the author

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 80 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as about twelve brilliant and amazing books that you should immediately buy, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Knowledge, Reality, and Value (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Michael Huemer, Michael (University of Colorado Huemer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032291031
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229103-1
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, contract law, Environmental Economics, Animal behaviour, Animal law, Ethics and moral philosophy, Politics and government, Botany & plant sciences, Zoology and animal sciences, Botany and plant sciences