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Animal Neopragmatism: From Welfare to Rights
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019)
Abstract
I present a neopragmatist theory of animal ethics. The two key elements of animal neopragmatism are 'relational hedonism' and an expressivist analysis of animal rights vocabulary. The theory can avoid the pitfalls faced by orthodox analytic animal rights theories and solves two pressing problems: the so-called changing the subject problem and the political problem of welfare.Author's Profile
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Welfare, Rights, and Pragmatism
In this chapter I reiterate the main elements of animal neopragmatism and discuss some of the central themes of the book. The main elements of animal neopragmatism are relational hedonism and expressivism. The former is a theory of folk concern for pain and a related claim about the proper focus of ... see more
Objections to Animal Neopragmatism
In this chapter, I address two objections to animal neopragmatism: the anything goes objection and the no practical difference objection. The anything goes objection is in response to pragmatism’s signature rejection of philosophical realism and the correspondence theory of truth. The claim is that ... see more
Two Problems for Animal Rights Theory
In this chapter, I argue that orthodox analytic animal rights theory faces two metalevel problems: the equivocation problem and the placement problem. The equivocation problem is that the basic animal rights argument commits a fallacy of equivocation. Following Darwin, it is a truism that human and ... see more
Responses to the Welfare Problems
In this chapter I present two theories that stand as putative solutions to the problems of welfare. The two theories are experiential pluralism and expressivism. Experiential pluralism is the view that there are feelings other than pleasure and pain that can impact upon the welfare of an individual.... see more
Relational Hedonism
In this chapter I outline a key element of animal neopragmatism: relational hedonism. Relational hedonism is a psychological-cum-anthropological thesis about public concern for pain. The central claim is that to show concern for the pain of an individual is to betray concern for them in a much broad... see more
The Philosophical Problem of Welfare
In this chapter I explain the philosophical problem of welfare. The philosophical problem of welfare is also known as the changing the subject problem. The problem arises as a consequence of the background framing assumptions operative on all sides in the contemporary animal ethics debate. The assum... see more
The Political Problem of Welfare
In this chapter I explain the political problem of welfare. There is a question mark hanging over the democratic legitimacy of the prevailing policy conception of welfare. The political problem of welfare arises because of a key difference between the policy conception of welfare and the folk concep... see more
Introduction
In this chapter I explain the main elements of animal neopragmatism and the theoretical motivations for it. Neopragmatism has both a negative case and a positive case supporting it. The negative case is the critique of orthodox animal rights theory in Chapter 6 and the familiar pragmatist arguments ... see more
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