"Individuals in the wild" by Bob Fischer

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Citation

Fischer, Bob (2018) Individuals in the wild. Animal Sentience 23(8)

Author Website

http://www.bobfischer.net/

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Abstract

If many wild animals have net negative lives, then we have to consider how likely it is that the good for animals, considered as individuals, aligns with the good for species, or the climate, or the preservation of wild spaces.

Author Biography

Bob Fischer, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University, works on animal ethics and the epistemology of modality, and is co-director the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1382

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