Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I worked in ethics. Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. I didn't like Mylan at the time, and I'm sure he didn't like me. Mylan worked in epistemology.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Jonathan is a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington , where I have been a professor since the fall of 1989. He received the highest score in both my fall 2005 Social and Political Philosophy course and my spring 2006 Ethics course. This blog has a new member: my former (and perhaps future) student Jonathan Hubbell.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

According to the HPMAJ column, "Loos told cattle producers the livestock industry must show the public that there are moral and ethical justifications for taking the life of an animal to feed a person. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason. Doublespeak at its worst.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 28, 2007

Jean and I overlapped by one year: August 1987 (when she arrived in Tucson) to August 1988 (when I departed for College Station, Texas). Here is a blog by one of my fellow graduate students at the University of Arizona. (I I will add it to the blogroll.) Jean teaches philosophy just down the road from me at Southern Methodist University.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. By the way, one answers questions and solves problems. One does not answer problems. Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings.

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