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4The Endless StoryIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: The Animal Conundrum Innovations, Alliances Public Activism Personal Change.
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Front MatterIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents.
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4Vanishing AnimalsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Why Species Matter Man Is the Measure Mild versus Wild Culture Clash.
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4Science and SurvivalIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Vaccine Hunting Horrible Harry Into the Lab Necessary Questions.
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7Caveman EthicsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: The “Ur” Problem Respect Carnivores and Cannibals The Social Contract The Mini‐Beasts Compassion.
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4The Lives of AnimalsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Pride and Prejudice People and Chickens Weighing Lives Animal Lives A Painful Question People and People Choosing Equality.
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3Going, Going, WrongIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Hunter, Herder, Farmer Losing Our Balance Animal Farm Creating and Destroying How Now Meat is not Green.
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2Dumb Brutes?In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Human, All Too Human Thinking Self and Other Locked in the Present? Human Morality Animal Morality? What Else?
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7The Order of ThingsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Ecce Homo The Great Chain of Being The Absent Soul The Tree of Life The Kind that Counts.
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11Animal ConsciousnessIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: The Question Mind and Brain What It Does Global Availability The Grey Area What It's Like.
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3The Myth of ConsentIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010-01-08.This chapter contains sections titled: Animal Spirits Divine Consent Let's Make a Deal.
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41Old Age as a Stage of LifeJournal of Applied Philosophy 40 (3): 521-534. 2023.The objective list account of wellbeing is usually taken to say that the same set of goods is relevant to wellbeing for any person, regardless of age. Coupled with reasonable assumptions about how goods are distributed over the lifespan, that leads to a picture of wellbeing as higher in midlife and lower in childhood and old age. I argue that a stage-relativized objective list theory is more plausible, after exploring several ways to understand the concept of a life stage. On the stage-relativiz…Read more
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67The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 95 109-112. 2021.
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10Persistent AnosmiaThe Philosophers' Magazine 92 108-109. 2021.John Stuart Mill famously maintained that “animal pleasures” – like enjoying good smells and tastes – are lower quality than the pleasures tied to higher cognition, like the pleasure of enjoying an opera or understanding a mathematical proof. This downgrading is particularly common in the ethical literature about eating animals. Peter Singer, James Rachels, Gary Francione, Alastair Norcross and dozens of other ethicists make quick work of defending vegetarianism by presuming that “gustatory plea…Read more
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Southern Methodist UniversityAdjunct Assistant Professor (Part-time)
University Park, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |