The Psychological Speciesism of Humanism
Philosophical Studies 178:1545-1569 (2021)
Abstract
Humanists argue for assigning the highest moral status to all humans over any non-humans directly or indirectly on the basis of uniquely superior human cognitive abilities. They may also claim that humanism is the strongest position from which to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of within-species discrimination. I argue that changing conceptual foundations in comparative research and discoveries of advanced cognition in many non-human species reveal humanism’s psychological speciesism and its similarity with common justifications of within-species discrimination.Author's Profile
Reprint years
2020
DOI
10.1007/s11098-020-01495-y
My notes
Similar books and articles
From moral rights to constitutional rights: beyond élitist and electiv speciesism.Sônia T. Felipe - 2007 - [email protected] - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 6 (2):205–216.
Shock the Monkey: Confessions of a Rational Animal Liberationist.Jeremy Yunt - 2004 - Philosophy Now 44:7-10.
Singer’s Notion of Speciesism: A Case for Animal Rights in Ejagham Culture.Lawrence Odey Ojong - 2019 - International Journal of Environmental Pollution and Environmental Modelling 2 (3):116-121.
Como Não Devemos Discriminar com Base na Espécie.Diogo Santos & Ricardo Miguel - 2017 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 73 (3-4):1495-1516.
Deep ethology, animal rights, and the great ape/animal project: Resisting speciesism and expanding the community of equals. [REVIEW]Marc Bekoff - 1997 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 (3):269-296.
McMahan on Speciesism and Deprivation.Christopher Grau - 2015 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 53 (2):216-226.
A compassionate autonomy alternative to speciesism.Constance K. Perry - 2001 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 22 (3):237-246.
The Relevance of Speciesism to Life Sciences Practices.Roger Wertheimer - 2007 - Journal of Philosophical Research 32 (9999):27-38.
Animals, Moral Status of.Oscar Horta - 2013 - In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley.
Special Relations, Special Obligations, and Speciesism.Eric X. Qi - 2016 - Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 7 (3):12-22.
The Relevance of Speciesism to Life Sciences Practices.Roger Wertheimer - 2007 - Journal of Philosophical Research 32 (9999):27-38.
Analytics
Added to PP
2020-06-14
Downloads
701 (#12,582)
6 months
150 (#4,319)
2020-06-14
Downloads
701 (#12,582)
6 months
150 (#4,319)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Relationship between Cognition and Moral Status Needs Overhaul.Carrie Figdor - 2020 - Animal Sentience 29 (3):1-2.
Avoiding anthropocentrism in evolutionarily inclusive ethics.Simon Fitzpatrick - 2020 - Animal Sentience 5 (29).
References found in this work
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture.Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides & John Tooby - 1992 - Oxford University Press.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.Edward O. Wilson - 1975 - Journal of the History of Biology 33 (3):577-584.