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This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking
its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre
of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey,
Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles
about human interactions with animals can be 'dissolved' by
understanding why people use terms like dignity, respect,
naturalness, and inherent value. Hadley shifts the debate about
animal welfare and rights from its current focus upon contentious
claims about value and animal mindedness, to the vocabulary people
use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of
animals. With its emphasis on public concern for animals, animal
neopragmatism is a uniquely progressive and democratic theory of
animal ethics.
Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals
represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights
theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the
traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and
bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal
reside. John Hadley argues that both proponents of animal rights
and environmentalists ought to support animal property rights
because protecting habitat promotes ecological values and helps to
ensure animals live free from human interference. Hadley's focus is
pragmatist - he locates animal property rights within the
institution of property as it exists today in liberal democracies.
He argues that attempts to justify animal property rights on labor
and first occupancy grounds will likely fail; instead, he grounds
animal property rights upon the importance of habitat for the
satisfaction of animals' basic needs. The potential of animal
property rights as a way of reinvigorating existing public policy
responses to the problem of biodiversity loss due to habitat
destruction is thoroughly explored. Using the concept of
guardianship for cognitively impaired human beings, Hadley
translates habitat rights as a right to negotiate - human guardians
ought to be allowed to negotiate, on behalf of wild animals, with
human landholders whose development activities put animals at risk.
In addition to a theory of animal property rights, Animal Property
Rights affords a critique of Donaldson and Kymlicka's wild animal
sovereignty theory, a defence of indirect approaches to animal
rights, an extensive discussion of euthanasia as a 'therapeutic
hunting' tool, and the first discussion of Locke's theory of
original acquisition in animal rights literature.
Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals
represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights
theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the
traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and
bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal
reside. John Hadley argues that both proponents of animal rights
and environmentalists ought to support animal property rights
because protecting habitat promotes ecological values and helps to
ensure animals live free from human interference. Hadley's focus is
pragmatist - he locates animal property rights within the
institution of property as it exists today in liberal democracies.
He argues that attempts to justify animal property rights on labor
and first occupancy grounds will likely fail; instead, he grounds
animal property rights upon the importance of habitat for the
satisfaction of animals' basic needs. The potential of animal
property rights as a way of reinvigorating existing public policy
responses to the problem of biodiversity loss due to habitat
destruction is thoroughly explored. Using the concept of
guardianship for cognitively impaired human beings, Hadley
translates habitat rights as a right to negotiate - human guardians
ought to be allowed to negotiate, on behalf of wild animals, with
human landholders whose development activities put animals at risk.
In addition to a theory of animal property rights, Animal Property
Rights affords a critique of Donaldson and Kymlicka's wild animal
sovereignty theory, a defence of indirect approaches to animal
rights, an extensive discussion of euthanasia as a 'therapeutic
hunting' tool, and the first discussion of Locke's theory of
original acquisition in animal rights literature.
Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers
have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes
whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent
attention largely unexamined. This timely collection of essays
brings together new theory and critical perspectives on key topics
in animal ethics, foregrounding questions relating to moral status,
moral epistemology and moral psychology. Is an individualistic
approach based upon capacities the best way to ground the moral
status of non-human animals or should philosophers pursue
relational perspectives? What does it mean to "know" animals and
"speak" for them? What is the role of emotions such as disgust,
empathy, and love, in animal ethics and how does emotion inform the
rationalism inherent in analytic animal ethics theory? The
collection aims to broaden the scope of animal ethics, rendering it
more inclusive of important contemporary philosophical themes and
pushing the discipline in new directions.
Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers
have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes
whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent
attention largely unexamined. This timely collection of essays
brings together new theory and critical perspectives on key topics
in animal ethics, foregrounding questions relating to moral status,
moral epistemology and moral psychology. Is an individualistic
approach based upon capacities the best way to ground the moral
status of non-human animals or should philosophers pursue
relational perspectives? What does it mean to "know" animals and
"speak" for them? What is the role of emotions such as disgust,
empathy, and love, in animal ethics and how does emotion inform the
rationalism inherent in analytic animal ethics theory? The
collection aims to broaden the scope of animal ethics, rendering it
more inclusive of important contemporary philosophical themes and
pushing the discipline in new directions.
This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking
its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre
of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey,
Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles
about human interactions with animals can be 'dissolved' by
understanding why people use terms like dignity, respect,
naturalness, and inherent value. Hadley shifts the debate about
animal welfare and rights from its current focus upon contentious
claims about value and animal mindedness, to the vocabulary people
use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of
animals. With its emphasis on public concern for animals, animal
neopragmatism is a uniquely progressive and democratic theory of
animal ethics.
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