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Animal ethics

Cheryl Abbate (Colorado): Compassion and Animals: How We Ought to Treat Animals in a World Without Justice. The philosophical necessity of animal rights: What could justify humanity’s cruel treatment of other creatures? From the Journal of Practical Ethics, Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard): The Claims of Animals and the Needs of Strangers: Two Cases of Imperfect Right; and Shelly Kagan (Yale): For Hierarchy in Animal Ethics. Ian James Kidd reviews Animals and Misanthropy by David E. Cooper. Justin F. Marceau (Denver) and Steve Wise (Nonhuman Rights Project): Exonerating the Innocent: Habeas for Nonhuman Animals. Garrett Broad (Fordham): Effective Animal Advocacy: Effective Altruism, the Social Economy, and the Animal Protection Movement.

Susana Monso and Judith Benz-Schwarzburg (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) and Annika Bremhorst (Bern): Animal Morality: What It Means and Why It Matters. California and Florida voters could change the lives of millions of animals on Election Day.