Mount Pleasant, MI, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory
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    Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics (edited book)
    with Drucilla Cornell, Julian H. Franklin, Eduardo Mendieta, Andrew Linzey, Paola Cavalieri, Rod Preece, Ted Benton, Michael J. Thompson, Michael Allen Fox, Lori Gruen, Ralph R. Acampora, Bernard Rollin, and Peter Sloterdijk
    Lexington Books. 2012.
    Strangers to Nature brings together many of the leading scholars who are working to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. This volume will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about the human/non-human animal relationship that is currently taking place
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    Animals in the Kingdom of Ends
    Between the Species 13 (10): 2. 2010.
    Kant claimed that human beings have no duties to animals because they are not autonomous ends in themselves. I argue that Kant was wrong to exclude animals from the realm of moral consideration. Animals, although they do not set their own ends and thus cannot be regarded as ends in themselves, do have ends that are given to them by nature. As beings with ends, they stand between mere things that have no ends, and rational beings that are ends in themselves. I propose a broader version of Kant's …Read more