2nd Edition

Animal Ethics A Contemporary Introduction

By Bob Fischer Copyright 2027
342 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

There are many introductions to animal ethics. There aren't many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer's Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but tackles them in an empirically... Read more

Acknowledgments Preface to the second edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Moral Community; Chapter 3 Animal Minds; Chapter 4 Welfare and Death; Chapter 5 Moral Theory; Chapter 6 Animal Agriculture and Aquaculture; Chapter 7 Production and Consumption Ethics; Chapter 8 Fishing; Chapter 9 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees; Chapter 10 Animal Research; Chapter 11 Zoos; Chapter 12 Indigenous Rights and Conservation; Chapter 13 Pests; Chapter 14 Companion Animals; Chapter 15 Activism; Chapter 16 Conclusion; Index.

Biography

Bob Fischer is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He's also one of the authors of Wildlife Ethics: The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation (Wiley, 2023) and the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (Routledge, 2019) and Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-being Across Species (Oxford University Press, 2024).