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30Protection for the Sentient in the Nonideal World: A Review of Robert Garner’s A Theory of Justice for Animals (review)Journal of Animal Ethics 5 (1). 2015.Presenting a series of powerful arguments, Robert Garner proposes that animal rights must be considered within the discourse on justice. The book offers an ideal theory of animal rights as well as a more achievable nonideal theory which we must use to get to the ideal, rejecting an array of alternative positions. The work contains much that is of value to animal ethicists, such as a novel consideration of the argument from marginal cases, and much that will be convincing for those political thin…Read more
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17Book Review: Joachim Wündisch, Towards a Right-Libertarian Welfare State (review)Political Studies Review 14 (2): 252-253. 2016.
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112Chewing Over In Vitro Meat: Animal Ethics, Cannibalism and Social ProgressRes Publica 22 (3): 249-265. 2016.Despite its potential for radically reducing the harm inflicted on nonhuman animals in the pursuit of food, there are a number of objections grounded in animal ethics to the development of in vitro meat. In this paper, I defend the possibility against three such concerns. I suggest that worries about reinforcing ideas of flesh as food and worries about the use of nonhuman animals in the production of in vitro meat can be overcome through appropriate safeguards and a fuller understanding of the i…Read more
Josh Milburn
Loughborough University
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Loughborough UniversityLecturer
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Animal Ethics |