Citation

Author Website

personal.lse.ac.uk/birchj1

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Irina Mikhalevich and Russell Powell, Minds without spines: Evolutionarily inclusive animal ethics

Abstract

My commentary focusses on Mikhalevich & Powell’s criticisms of the Animal Sentience Precautionary Principle. I emphasize the pragmatic nature of my rationale for proposing that, rather than extending the scope of animal welfare protection on a species-by-species basis, we should be willing to protect entire Linnaean orders on the basis of evidence from a single species.

Author Biography

Jonathan Birch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is the Principal Investigator on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1605