Animals Deserve Moral Consideration

Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 177 - 185
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Abstract
Timothy Hsiao asks a good question: Why believe animals deserve moral consideration? His answer is that we should not. He considers various other answers and finds them wanting. In this paper I consider an answer Hsiao has not yet discussed: We should accept a conservative view about how to form beliefs. And such a view will instruct us to believe that animals deserve moral consideration. I think conservatives like Hsiao do best to answer his...
Paper Details
Title
Animals Deserve Moral Consideration
Published Date
Apr 1, 2020
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
177 - 185
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