Michael Huemer

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032291031
• ISBN-10: 1032291036
• Artikelnr.: 72542639

Autorenporträt

Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than 80 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as about twelve brilliant and amazing books that he thinks you should immediately buy, including Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Knowledge, Reality, and Value (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Day 1: Suffering
Intelligence
and the Risk Argument Day 2: Other Defenses of Meat Consumption Day 3: Consciousness and Rational Belief Day 4: The Vegan life
Abstract Theory
and Moral Motivation Day 5: Health
Religious Arguments
and Progressive Arguments Appendix 1: Recipes Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography

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Foreword Peter Singer Day 1: Suffering, intelligence, and the risk argument Day 2: Other defenses of meat consumption Day 3: Consciousness and rational belief Day 4: The vegan life, abstract theory, and moral motivation. Annotated Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"In the future, when people ask me why I don't eat meat, I will tell them to read this book."

--Peter Singer, Princeton University and University of Melbourne