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Introduction: Speciesism, Sexism, and Male Privilege
The first chapter introduces core ideas—sexism, speciesism, and male privilege—through an examination of the labor and crimes of pig farmer and...
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Speciesism and tribalism: embarrassing origins
Animal ethicists have been debating the morality of speciesism for over forty years. Despite rather persuasive arguments against this form of...
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Speciesism and Speciescentrism
The term ‘speciesism’ was once coined to name discrimination against nonhuman animals (Ryder
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Speciesism, Arbitrariness and Moral Illusions
Just as one line appears to be longer than another in an optical illusion, we can have a spontaneous moral judgment that one individual is more...
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Transformational Approaches: Equine Speciesism
By exploring the various approaches that artists employed to represent the equine species, Chapter Four will seek to identify how donkeys have been...
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Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’
The literature on the epistemology of ignorance already discusses how certain forms of discrimination, such as racism and sexism, are perpetuated by...
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The psychological speciesism of humanism
Humanists argue for assigning the highest moral status to all humans over any non-humans directly or indirectly on the basis of uniquely superior...
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Is Speciesism Wrong by Definition?
Oscar Horta has argued that speciesism is wrong by definition. In his view, there can be no more substantive debate about the justification of...
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Previewing Post-Anthropocene Themes
This chapter previews themes that have emerged during the post-Anthropocene era. They include eco-modernism, nature-culture divide, new materialism,...
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Interconnections: Theory, Myth, and Science
The first half of Chap. 2 introduces ecofeminist theory to debunk dualisms and explore the interface of...
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Animals: Vulnerable Beings?
This chapter discusses whether some animals fulfill the previously outlined conditions for vulnerability ascription. It shows that sentient animals...
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Guidelines for a Post-speciesist Epistemology in the Age of Anthropocene
This chapter proposes guidelines to start the construction of an alternative theoretical framework based on the notion of post-speciesism as a mark...
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Moral Difference and Moral Differences
The idea that human beings have a distinct moral worth—a moral significance over and above any moral worth, such as that may be, possessed by other...
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Anthropological Mutations
This article takes up and develops Michel Foucault’s intuition (The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences. Pantheon Books, New York...
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A debunking argument against speciesism
Many people believe that human interests matter much more than the like interests of non-human animals, and this “speciesist belief” plays a crucial...
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A Kantian Approach to the Moral Considerability of Non-human Nature
A Kantian approach can establish that non-human natural entities are morally considerable and that humans have duties to them. This is surprising,...
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Utilitarianism and the Moral Status of Animals: A Psychological Perspective
Recent years have seen a growing interest among psychologists for debates in moral philosophy. Moral psychologists have investigated the causal...
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Beyond Diet: Veganism as Liberatory Praxis
“Beyond Diet: Veganism as Liberatory Praxis” posits veganism as part of a comprehensive social justice praxis that includes non-human animals...