Overview

This is the first edited collection devoted entirely to the question of the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant. Though the topic is not one treated systematically in his work, mentions of animals occur throughout his corpus in relation to many of his central concerns. In this volume, a team of leading scholars address issues ranging over Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy, including questions regarding the possibility of objective representation and intentionality in animals, the role of animals in Kant's scientific picture of nature, the status of our moral responsibilities to animals' welfare, and more. It also includes chapters concerning contemporary questions relating to animals and Kantian ethics and metaethics, making a use of Kant's philosophy to help contend with one of the most crucial ethics issues facing us today.

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Author:   John J. Callanan (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London) ,  Lucy Allais (Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9780198859918

ISBN 10:   0198859910
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   23 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Sources and Translations John J. Callanan and Lucy Allais: Introduction I. Theoretical Philosophy 1: John J. Callanan: The Comparison of Animals 2: Colin McLear: Animals and Objectivity 3: Sacha Golob: What Do Animals See? Intentionality, Objects, and Kantian Nonconceptualism 4: Ina Goy: Kant on Nonhuman Animals and God 5: David Baumeister: Animality in Kant's Account of Human Nature 6: Alix Cohen: Kant on Evolution: A Re-evaluation II. Practical Philosophy 7: Arthur Ripstein and Sergio Tenenbaum: Directionality and Virtuous Ends 8: Helga Varden: Kant and Responsibility for Animals 9: Carol Hay: What Do We Owe to Animals? Kant on Non-Intrinsic Value 10: Jon Garthoff: Against the Construction of Animal Ethical Standing 11: Andrew Chignell: Hope and Despair at the Kantian Chicken Factory: Moral Arguments about Making a Difference

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...informative and thought provoking. * Gary Steiner, Journal of the History of Philosophy *

Author Information

John J. Callanan is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. His research focuses on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy as well as various other Early Modern philosophers. Lucy Allais is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Henry Allison Chair of the History of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. She has authored a book on Kant's transcendental idealism, Manifest Reality (Oxford, 2015), and a number of articles on Kant's theoretical philosophy, as well as papers on forgiveness and other topics in ethics.

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