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OverviewMost people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussions is that animals have the same moral status that people do, and so in moral deliberation the similar interests of animals and people should be given the very same consideration. In How to Count Animals, more or less, Shelly Kagan sets out and defends a hierarchical approach in which people count more than animals do and some animals count more than others. For the most part, moral theories have not been developed in such a way as to take account of differences in status. By arguing for a hierarchical account of morality - and exploring what status sensitive principles might look like - Kagan reveals just how much work needs to be done to arrive at an adequate view of our duties toward animals, and of morality more generally. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shelly Kagan (Clark Professor of Philosophy, Clark Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.604kg ISBN: 9780198829676ISBN 10: 0198829671 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 16 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Standing 2: Unitarianism 3: The Argument from Distribution 4: Hierarchy and the Value of Outcomes 5: Status 6: Worries about Hierarchy 7: Deontology 8: Restricted Deontology 9: Hierarchical Deontology 10: Defense 11: Limited HierarchyReviewsAuthor InformationShelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale, where he has taught since 1995. He was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1982. Before coming to Yale, Professor Kagan taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Limits of Morality, Normative Ethics, and The Geometry of Desert. The videos of his undergraduate class on death (available online) have been popular around the world, and the book based on the course, Death, was a national bestseller in South Korea. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |