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677Against moral intrinsicalismIn Elisa Aaltola & John Hadley (eds.), Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy, Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 31-45. 2014.This paper challenges a widespread, if tacit, assumption of animal ethics, namely, that the only properties of entities that matter to their moral status are intrinsic, cross‐specific properties—typically psychological capacities. According to moral individualism (Rachels 1990; McMahan 2002; 2005), the moral status of an individual, and how to treat him or her, should only be a function of his or her individual properties. I focus on the fundamental assumption of moral individualism, which I cal…Read more
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
UFR de Philosophie
Alumnus, 2014
APA Eastern Division
Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Animal Ethics |
Environmental Ethics |
Moral Status of Animals |
Agency |