1st Edition

Positive Duties to Wild Animals

Edited By Kyle Johannsen Copyright 2025
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Positive Duties to Wild Animals: Introduction
Kyle Johannsen

 

2. Wild Animals Ethics: A Freedom-Based Approach
Eze Paez

 

3. Vulnerability and the Ethics of Environmental Enhancement
Catia Faria

 

4. Solidarity with Wild Animals
Mara-Daria Cojocaru and Alasdair Cochrane

 

5. Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Effectively: Why Impracticability and Normative Objections Fail Against the Most Promising Ways of Helping Wild Animals
Oscar Horta and Dayrón Terán

 

6. Welcoming, Wild Animals, and Obligations to Assist
Josh Milburn

 

7. The Rebugnant Conclusion: Utilitarianism, Insects, Microbes, and AI Systems
Jeff Sebo

 

Biography

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.