1st Edition
The Ethics of Eating Animals Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible
1. Introduction
2. Contemporary Animal Agriculture
3. Bad Arguments for Eating Animals
4. Utilitarianism and the Causal Inefficacy Problem
5. Causal Inefficacy Aside, Utilitarianism Requires Eating Unusually
6. The Rights View and the Production/Consumption Gap
7. Eating Animals the Rights Way
8. Beyond Utilitarianism and the Rights View
9. Activist Ethics
10. Taking Stock
Biography
Bob Fischer teaches philosophy at Texas State University. He’s the author of Animal Ethics — A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, forthcoming) and the editor of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming).
"This is one of the most honest books I’ve ever read. Rather than grinding an axe, Fischer follows the reasons to the conclusions they support—conclusions at odds with what he had hoped to establish." – Donald Bruckner, Penn State University, New Kensington, USA
