The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics

Book Overview

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.

Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and vegetarianism, but only around the last quarter of the twentieth century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019935197X
• ISBN13: 9780199351978
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1008 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"