Animals, Agency, and Obligation in Kantian Ethics.

The writer examines efforts to defend, supplement, and amend Immanuel Kant's account of obligations to animals. She argues that nonrevisionist efforts to derive a robust account of obligations to animals create only the appearance of moral concern for animals. She further argues that revisionist s...

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Published in:Social Theory & Practice Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 531 - 555
Main Author: O'Hagan, Emer
Format: Article
Published: Florida State University, Dept. of Philosophy October 2009
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