Citation
Batavia, Chelsea (2020) Is anthropocentrism really the problem?. Animal Sentience 27(20)
Thread
Adrian Treves, Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, and William S. Lynn, Just preservation
Abstract
Treves et al. (2019) highlight what they consider soft forms of anthropocentrism in the practice and philosophy of conservation, e.g., when even professed non-anthropocentrists assert the precedence of human over nonhuman interests. I consider a few philosophical cases for maintaining human precedence, but ultimately offer a more psychological explanation: our explanations for why humans take precedence serve to reduce dissonance and discomfort, which arise because the norms and institutions of society often compel us to act in ways that violate our moral responsibilities to nonhuman beings.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1557
