Moral Complexities of Eating Meat

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-935390-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers on a vitally important topic: the ethics of eating meat. Some of the key questions examined include: Are animals harmed or benefited by our practice of raising and killing them for food? Do the realities of the marketplace entail that we have no power as individuals to improve the lives of any animals by becoming vegetarian, and if so, have we any reason to stop eating meat? Suppose it is morally wrong to eat meat--should we be blamed for doing so? If we should be vegetarians, what sort should we be?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bramble, Ben

Fischer, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Defending Meat

- 1. Christopher Belshaw, "Meat"

- 2. Donald Bruckner, "Strict Vegetarianism is Immoral"

- 3. J. Baird Callicott, "The Environmental Omnivore's Dilemma"

- Part II: Challenging Meat

- 4. Julia Driver, "Individual Consumption and Moral Complicity"

- 5. Mark Budolfson, "Is it Wrong to Eat Meat from Factory Farms? If So, Why?"

- 6. Clayton Littlejohn, Potency and Permissibility"

- 7. Tristram McPherson, "A Moorean Defense of the Omnivore"

- 8. Ben Bramble, "The Case Against Meat"

- Part III: Future Directions

- 9. Lori Gruen and Robert Jones, "Veganism as an Aspiration"

- 10. Neil Levy, "Vegetarianism: Towards Ideological Impurity"

- 11. Bob Fischer, "Against Blaming the Blameworthy"

- 12. Alexandra Plakias, "Beetles, Bicycles, and Breath Mints: How 'Omni' Should Omnivores Be?"

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Bramble received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2014. He is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests are in moral and political philosophy.

Bob Fischer earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago; he is now an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He works on issues in animal ethics, modal epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophical methodology.