Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

Hey there, Just discovered your nice blog on animals and ethics. I've touched on relevant issues off and on, but most specifically in a 2004 piece on arguments for and against whale hunts. www.nytimes.com/dotearth I'm going to add Animal Ethics to my blogroll. A very under-appreciated arena.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Hi Keith— In case you want to put a link on Animal Ethics— here 's a post about traditional Eskimo whaling and the perennial question, what to eat for Thanksgiving dinner. Complete with recipe!

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

If we judge this moral elite by its adherence to something like the Golden Rule of the New Testament, there is not all that much room for its improvement, except, as I suggested earlier, for the extension of our moral sympathies to nonhuman animals. But this is a digression and I must return to my main theme. (

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

You can find his recent post on the current state of whale hunting here. Andrew Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for the New York Times. About Dot Earth By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2009

In the past I have been concerned to advocate a normative utilitarian theory from the point of view of a non-cognitivist meta-ethics. Many prominent animal-rights advocates (such as Tom Regan ) are deontologists rather than consequentialists.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 1, 2010

As regards animals, the position is clear. If an animal has the relevant moral capacities, actually or potentially, then it can be a possessor of rights. It may for this reason be morally appropriate for us meanwhile to act towards the former animals as if they are possessors of rights.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. as is the humane ethic. as is the humane ethic. On the top, from left to right, distinguish between (nonhuman) animals and plants.

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