Animal Neopragmatism From Welfare to Rights /

• Main Author: Hadley, John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Animal welfare.; Pragmatism.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Philosophy of Language.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Social Philosophy.

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis. Following a method traceable to Dewey, Wittgenstein and Rorty, Hadley argues that many enduring puzzles about human interactions with animals...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Political Problem of Welfare
• 3. The Philosophical Problem of Welfare
• 4. Relational Hedonism
• 5. Responses to the Welfare Problems
• 6. Two Problems for Animal Rights Theory
• 7. Objections to Animal Neopragmatism
• 8. Welfare, Rights, and Pragmatism.