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Animal Liberation, Environmental Ethics and DomesticationEnvironmental Values 5 (2): 187-188. 1996.
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2Fat Companions: understanding canine and feline obesity and its effects on welfareIn Michael C. Appleby, Daniel M. Weary & Peter Sandøe (eds.), Dilemmas in Animal Welfare, Cabi International. pp. 28-45. 2014.
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74The Idea of the Domesticated Animal ContractEnvironmental Values 6 (4). 1997.Some recent works have suggested that the relationship between human beings and domesticated animals might be described as contractual. This paper explores how the idea of such an animal contract might relate to key characteristics of social contract theory, in particular to issues of the change in state from 'nature' to 'culture'; to free consent and irrevocability; and to the benefits and losses to animals which might follow from such a contract. The paper concludes that there are important di…Read more
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1Le contrat domestiqueIn Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa & Jean-Baptsite Jeangène Vilmer (eds.), Philosophie animale. Différence, éthique et communauté, Vrin. pp. 333-373. 2010.
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8Review of Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea and Leonard Kahn (eds.), Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics (review)Environmental Values 24 (2): 259-261. 2015.
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95Environmental EthicsAnnual Review of Environment and Resources 39 419-442. 2014.Environmental ethics—the study of ethical questions raised by human relations with the nonhuman environment—emerged as an important subfield of philosophy during the 1970s. It is now a flourishing area of research. This article provides a review of the secular, Western traditions in the field. It examines both anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric claims about what has value, as well as divergent views about whether environmental ethics should be concerned with bringing about best consequences,…Read more
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135An Overview of Environmental EthicsIn Holmes Rolston & Andrew Light (eds.), Environmental Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 15-37. 2002.
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57Colonization, urbanization, and animalsPhilosophy and Geography 6 (1). 2003.Urbanization and development of green spaces is continuing worldwide. Such development frequently engulfs the habitats of native animals, with a variety of effects on their existence, location and ways of living. This paper attempts to theorize about some of these effects, drawing on aspects of Foucault's discussions of power and using a metaphor of human colonization, where colonization is understood as an "ongoing process of dispossession, negotiation, transformation, and resistance." It argue…Read more
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122What (If Anything) Do We Owe Wild Animals?Between the Species 16 (1): 4. 2013.It’s widely agreed that animal pain matters morally – that we shouldn’t, for instance, starve our animal companions, and that we should provide medical care to sick or injured agricultural animals, and not only because it benefits us to do so. But do we have the same moral responsibilities towards wild animals? Should we feed them if they are starving, and intervene to prevent them from undergoing other forms of suffering, for instance from predation? Using an example that includes both wild and…Read more
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104Animal Disenhancement and the Non-Identity Problem: A Response to ThompsonNanoEthics 5 (1): 43-48. 2011.In his paper The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken problem (Nanoethics 2:305–316, 2008) Paul Thompson argues that the possibility of disenhancing animals in order to improve animal welfare poses a philosophical conundrum. Although many people intuitively think such disenhancement would be morally impermissible, it’s difficult to find good arguments to support such intuitions. In this brief response to Thompson, I accept that there’s a conundrum here. But I argue…Read more
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153The moral relevance of the distinction between domesticated and wild animalsIn Beauchamp Tom & Frey R. G. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics,, Oxford University Press. pp. 701-725. 2011.This article considers whether a morally relevant distinction can be drawn between wild and domesticated animals. The term “wildness” can be used in several different ways, only one of which (constitutive wildness, meaning an animal that has not been domesticated by being bred in particular ways) is generally paired and contrasted with“domesticated.” Domesticated animals are normally deliberately bred and confined. One of the article's arguments concerns human initiatives that establish relation…Read more
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44Saving Species but Losing Wildness: Should We Genetically Adapt Wild Animal Species to Help Them Respond to Climate Change?Midwest Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 234-251. 2016.
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31Inconvenient Desires: Should we routinely neuter companion animals?Anthrozoos 25 (1): 153-172. 2012.Influential parts of the veterinary profession, and notably the American Veterinary Medicine Association, are promoting the routine neutering of cats and dogs that will not be used for breeding purposes. However, this view is not universally held, even among representatives of the veterinary profession. In particular, some veterinary associations in Europe defend the view that when reproduction is not an issue, then neutering, particularly of dogs, should be decided on a case-by-case basis. How…Read more
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18Quantum physics, 'postmodern scientific worldview' and Callicott's environmental ethicsIn Wayne Ouderkirk & J. Hill (eds.), Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 171-184. 2002.
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107Contested frameworks in environmental ethicsIn Ricardo Rozzi, Steward Pickett, Clare Palmer, Juan Armesto & J. Baird Callicott (eds.), Linking ecology and ethics for a changing world, Springer. pp. 191-206. 2014.This paper provides an overview of some key, and contrasting, ideas in environmental ethics for those unfamiliar with the field. It outlines the ways in which environmental ethicists have defended different positions concerning what matters ethically, from those that focus on human beings (including issues of environmental justice and justice between generations) to those who argue that non-human animals, living organisms, ecosystems and species have some kind of moral status. The paper also con…Read more
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1437Harm to Species? Species, Ethics, and Climate Change: The Case of the Polar BearNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 23 (2): 587-604. 2009.
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9Attfield and Animals: Capacities and Relations in Attfield's Environmental EthicsIn Rebekah Humphries & Sophie Vlacos (eds.), Creation, Environment and Ethics, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 105-120. 2011.Robin Attfield's work has been central to the development of environmental philosophy in a number of key areas, including stewardship, population, human development and the moral standing of living organisms. In this paper, I'll focus primarily on just one aspect of Attfield's work: human moral obligations to sentient animals. I'll first outline how, and in what ways, Attfield has argued that such animals are morally important. I'll then suggest that while providing a good grounding for some ce…Read more
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21Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change
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TN Khoshoo, Mahatma Gandhi: An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (6): 392-395. 1997.
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11Rethinking Animal Ethics in Appropriate Context: How Rolston's Work Can HelpIn Christopher J. Preston & Wayne Ouderkirk (eds.), Nature, Value Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III, Springer. pp. 183-200. 2006.
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15Review of Paola Cavalieri (ed.), The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.
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10Environmental Ethics and Agricultural IntensificationIn Paul Thompson (ed.), The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Chang, Springer. pp. 131-148. 2008.
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13Animal Rights (edited book)Ashgate. 2008.Do animals have moral rights? If so, which ones? How does this affect our thinking about agriculture and experimentation? If animals have moral rights, should they be protected by law? These are some of the questions addressed in this collection, which contains more than 30 papers spanning nearly 40 years of debates about animal rights. It includes work by leading advocates of animal rights both in philosophy and law, as well as contributions by those resolutely opposed to the very idea of anima…Read more
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David Strong, Crazy Mountains: Learning from Wilderness to Weigh Technology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (6): 392-395. 1997.
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1478The Blind Hens' Challenge: Does It Undermine the View That Only Welfare Matters in Our Dealings with Animals?Environmental Values 23 (6): 727-742. 2014.Animal ethicists have recently debated the ethical questions raised by disenhancing animals to improve their welfare. Here, we focus on the particular case of breeding hens for commercial egg-laying systems to become blind, in order to benefit their welfare. Many people find breeding blind hens intuitively repellent, yet ‘welfare-only’ positions appear to be committed to endorsing this possibility if it produces welfare gains. We call this the ‘Blind Hens’ Challenge’. In this paper, we argue tha…Read more
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79Animal Ethics in ContextColumbia University Press. 2010.It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions about when we should, and should not, assist animals that are hungry or distressed. Should we feed a starving stray kitten? And if so, does this commit us, if we are to be consistent, to feeding …Read more
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60Value Conflicts in Feral Cat Management: Trap-Neuter-Return or Trap-EuthanizeIn Michael C. Appleby, Daniel M. Weary & Peter Sandøe (eds.), Dilemmas in Animal Welfare, Cabi International. pp. 148-168. 2014.This chapter explores the key values at stake in feral cat management, focusing on the debate over whether to use trap-neuter-return or trap-euthanize as management tools for cat populations. The chapter provides empirical background on unowned cats, sketches widely used arguments in favour of reducing cat populations and considers how these arguments relate to important and widely held values including the value of lives, subjective experiences and species. The chapter promotes critical underst…Read more
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