"Beasts Versus the Biosphere?"
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
Hub Zwart reflects on the possibility of a moral relationship with animals.
Keekok Lee discusses why posing the question “what is an animal?” is neither irrelevant nor futile.
Clare Palmer discusses the concept of the domesticated animal contract.
H.A.E. Zwart discusses Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as the origin of a new animal science.
In this paper, Derek D. Turner argues that by focusing too narrowly on consequentialist arguments for ecosabotage, environmental philosophers such as Michael Martin (1990) and Thomas Young (2001) have tended to overlook important facts about monkeywrenching.
In this essay, Freya Mathews argues that the moral point of view involves a feeling for the inner reality of others and explains the consequences of this idea for other-than-human life forms and systems.
The author’s aim in this paper is to show, by means of a phenomenological investigation, that the “scepticism regarding animal minds” presupposes an implausible account of how we relate to others, both humnan and nonhuman.
In this article the author poses the question whether rationality can be the reason why humans deserve moral consideration and animals do not.