I define speciesism as unequal treatment based on species and argue that this definition fares better than extant accounts insofar as it satisfies these two conditions.
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I define speciesism as unequal treatment based on species and argue that this definition fares better than extant accounts insofar as it satisfies these two conditions.
A good definition of speciesism must therefore satisfy two conditions: it must match a good definition of racism, and it must make the concept speciesism useful to debate the way we treat animals.
I argue that the word ‘speciesism’ has as its main function to designate a phenomenon analogous to racism, and thereby allow us to draw instructive parallels between this phenomenon and racism, parallels that we can then use to investigate and debate the morality of this phenomenon.
Up to a point, this variety is unobjectionable. We are at liberty to stipulate the sense in which we use words. But this is true only within limits. Some definitions are good and some bad, depending on whether or not they meet certain conditions.
In the animal ethics literature, speciesism is defined in all sorts of manners: as a behaviour or a philosophical view, as necessarily anthropocentric or possibly centred on other species, as necessarily based on species or possibly not, as necessarily immoral or possibly ethically acceptable.
New paper out in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑠! The title is intentionally ambiguous, as I defend both a procedure for defining speciesism and a substantive definition of speciesism. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@dominic-hfb.bsky.social a lu le nouveau livre de @francoisjaquet.bsky.social et @malou-amsel.bsky.social aux éd. Sciences humaines sur l’éthique du véganisme. À quelles conditions peut-il être moralement acceptable de manger des produits animaux? Réponse dans l’article.
lamorce.co/le-veganisme...
Seconde partie de mon passage au podcast animaliste Kumquat. Il y est question des raisonnements par analogie, de l'argument antispéciste de Peter Singer, d'un meilleur argument contre le spécisme et de la place à accorder aux intuitions dans la réflexion morale.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjz2...
Récemment de passage à Toulouse, j'ai eu le plaisir de participer au podcast animaliste Kumquat.
Dans cette première partie, nous abordons deux questions: "Qu'est-ce, exactement, que le spécisme?" et "Le spécisme existe-t-il?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqKr...
"Rédigé dans un style sans verbiage, l’ouvrage se distingue par sa clarté et la rigueur de son argumentation. Il offre une introduction incontournable au débat contemporain sur l’éthique du véganisme." Ce n'est pas moi qui le dis; c'est la quatrième de couverture.
Après avoir défini le véganisme, comme le mode de vie consistant à ne pas produire, acheter et utiliser des biens d'origine animale, Malou et moi examinons les arguments le plus souvent mobilisés en faveur et à l’encontre de ces trois pratiques.
Tu veux tout savoir sur l'éthique du véganisme? Ton ou ta libraire a, dès aujourd'hui, le livre qui comblera tes attentes: 𝑭𝒂𝒖𝒕-𝒊𝒍 𝒆̂𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆́𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒆?
www.scienceshumaines.com/editions/fau...
Vendredi prochain, j'aurai l'honneur de donner la conférence d'ouverture de la 10ème édition du Festival Histoire et Cité, dont le thème est "Animal". Rendez-vous à Lausanne, de 18h à 19h30!
histoire-cite.ch/programme/co...
C'est ce soir en ligne à 18H !
Avec @francoisjaquet.bsky.social
Lien de connexion disponible sur demande en MP.
By the way, while I reject Timmerman’s and Kagan’s definitions of speciesism, I don’t provide a positive account here. I do that in another paper that’s forthcoming in the 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑠.
In response, I argue that two of these arguments rest on bad accounts of speciesism and that all three generate implausible empirical predictions. Until proved otherwise, it very much seems that speciesism exists.
Stijn Bruers does not deny the existence of speciesism, but he defends a claim that seems to entail that speciesism doesn’t exist - namely, the claim that most people use species only as a proxy for personhood. See link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Shelly Kagan argues that most people are actually not speciesists on the grounds that they do not believe that the interests of humans would count more than the like interests of intelligent aliens. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Travis Timmerman argues that most people are actually not speciesists on the grounds that they would reject some implications of the claim that humans possess a moral status higher than that of all non-humans. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The speciesism debate focuses on an ethical question: Can speciesism be justified, or is it immoral? Another question has received much less attention: Does speciesism exist? Animal ethicists have largely assumed that speciesism is pervasive. But this assumption has been challenged recently.
Excited to share my new paper in the 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦! This one’s about the existence of speciesism, and it’s a response to three philosophers whose work I appreciate a lot: Travis Timmerman, Shelly Kagan, and @stijnbruers.bsky.social. Thread ⬇️ jesp.org/index.php/je...
Dernière étape: correction des épreuves!
This is (I believe) the first time cultivated meat has been available for sale in Europe. In a WORLD first, it's available as pet food! When I started talking and writing about this a decade ago, people thought the idea was laughable.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
En raison de l'incertitude qui pèse sur l'accessibilité de l'Université Rennes 2 la semaine prochaine ⤵️
Lundi 17 février de 16h30 à 18h (campus Aix), première séance du séminaire de philosophie contemporaine (coordonné par Christophe Salvat) avec @francoisjaquet.bsky.social avec une intervention intitulée « Qu'importent les plantes ! » : cggg.fr/agenda/qu-im...
Dans une semaine ✨
Our new animal #morality / #speciesism paper shows children deem it more morally wrong to eat meat than adults. They don't show (yet) the cognitive dissonance reducing reasoning about factory farming we adults use.
#psychscisky #socialpsyc #moralPhil
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Dans l’abattoir Rhône Ouest, des vaches sont égorgées conscientes, d'autres décapitées vivantes, des cochons tentent de fuir au moment d’être étourdis, …
L214 porte plainte et demande la fermeture de cet établissement!
Aidez-nous ➡️ L214.com/abattoir-rhone-ouest-X
Our most recent essays! The next essay is going to number 200! What's it going to be on?
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