The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible

Author:   Bob Fischer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367230043


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bob Fischer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780367230043


ISBN 10:   0367230046
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   10 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Contemporary Animal Agriculture 3. Bad Arguments for Eating Animals 4. Utilitarianism and the Causal Inefficacy Problem 5. Causal Inefficacy Aside, Utilitarianism Requires Eating Unusually 6. The Rights View and the Production/Consumption Gap 7. Eating Animals the Rights Way 8. Beyond Utilitarianism and the Rights View 9. Activist Ethics 10. Taking Stock

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"""This is one of the most honest books I’ve ever read. Rather than grinding an axe, Fischer follows the reasons to the conclusions they support—conclusions at odds with what he had hoped to establish."" – Donald Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington, USA"


This is one of the most honest books I've ever read. Rather than grinding an axe, Fischer follows the reasons to the conclusions they support-conclusions at odds with what he had hoped to establish. - Donald Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington, USA


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Bob Fischer teaches philosophy at Texas State University. He’s the author of Animal Ethics — A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, forthcoming) and the editor of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming).

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