1st Edition

What Do We Owe Other Animals? A Debate

By Bob Fischer, Anja Jauernig Copyright 2024
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophers Bob Fischer and Anja Jauernig agree that human society often treats animals in indefensible ways and that all animals morally matter; they disagree on whether humans and animals morally matter equally. In What Do We Owe Other Animals?: A Debate , Fischer and Jauernig square off over this central question in animal ethics. Jauernig defends the view that all living beings morally... Read more

Foreword by Dustin Crummett

Opening Statements

1. Opening Statement
Anja Jauernig

2. Opening Statement
Bob Fischer

First Round of Replies

3. Reply to Bob Fischer
Anja Jauernig

4. Reply to Anja Jauernig
Bob Fischer

Second Round of Replies

5. Second Reply to Bob Fischer
Anja Jauernig

6. Second Reply to Anja Jauernig's Response
Bob Fischer

Biography

Anja Jauernig is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, working in the history of European modern philosophy (seventeenth to nineteenth century), aesthetics, and animal ethics. Her book on Immanuel Kant’s theoretical philosophy, The World According to Kant—Appearances and Things in Themselves in Kant’s Critical Idealism (Oxford University Press), was published in 2021.

Bob Fischer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, a Research Manager for Rethink Priorities, and Director of the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals. He has written and edited several books about animal ethics, including, Animal Ethics—A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2021).