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Amicus Brief (in the Case of Happy the Elephant)
(Project Muse, 2023-01)
II. SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT
This brief does not address the issue of Happy's personhood. The key question for the Court is not whether Happy can be called a "person." Instead, the key questions are, first, whether there ...
Précis of fellow creatures: Our obligations to the other animals
(Wiley, 2022-07)
Medical Research on Animals and the Question of Moral Standing
(Harvard Medical School, 2020)
This paper examines the difference between utilitarian and Kantian accounts of what it means to have moral standing and why non-human animals have it. It then considers the implications of these views for the question ...
Getting Animals in View
(2023-12-23)
Agency and morality
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)
The traditional categorization of ethical theories into consequentialist, deontological, and virtue-ethical theories ignores the significance of the fact that philosophers supposedly representing these categories are working ...
The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature
(2020)
We use the term “good” in two contexts: as the most general term of evaluation, and to refer to the final ends of life and action. I start from the question what evaluative and final goodness have to do with each other. ...
Valuing Our Humanity
(Oxford University Press, 2021-05-13)
In the past Christine Korsgaard has argued that when Kant claims we value our humanity as an end in itself, he means that we take the value of the power of rational choice to be the condition of the value of our ends, and ...
Thinking in Good Company
(American Philosophical Association, 2022-11)