Positive Duties to Wild Animals

Kyle Johannsen (Trent University, Canada)

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Routledge
02 December 2024

Ethics & moral philosophy; Animals & society; Zoology & animal sciences; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Conservation of the environment

Series: Routledge Environmental Ethics

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have never previously been used to ground our positive duties to wild animals.

Though we’ve always known that the wild is a nasty place where predators lethally attack prey, only recently have most animal ethicists come to realize that most wild animals fail to flourish. In fact, what we know about wild animal reproduction suggests that the majority of sentient beings born into the world may not even live lives worth living. It’s not unreasonable for one to initially respond to the above with a sense of depressed resignation, but a growing number of ethicists believe that we both can and should intervene. The purpose of this book is to further develop the interventionist literature by bringing together philosophers who agree that we have significant duties to help wild animals, but who use different theoretical frameworks, or who disagree about the details, e.g., about the reasons that ground our obligations to help wild animals, about how those obligations should be classified, about the content of our obligations, about the means we should use to fulfill our obligations, etc.

This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers and students of animal ethics, animal welfare, environmental ethics, philosophy, and sustainability. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment.

Edited by: Kyle Johannsen (Trent University Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032898186
ISBN 10: 1032898186
Series: Routledge Environmental Ethics
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 02 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kyle Johannsen is a Sessional Faculty Member in the Department of Philosophy at Trent University, and an Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) fellow at Queen's University. He’s also a podcast host on the New Books Network's Animal Studies Channel.