Preordered! Very cool - thank you Christine!

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Christine D Overall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am very pleased to announce the upcoming publication (on March 1, 2017)
> of *Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion
> Animals*.
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> Published by Oxford University Press (New York), *Pets and People* is a
> collection of articles by philosophers from the United States, Canada,
> Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
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> The book focuses on ethical issues connected to a category of individuals
> who play an extremely important role in human lives: companion animals
> (“pets”), with a special emphasis on dogs and cats. Companion animals are
> both vulnerable to and dependent upon us. What responsibilities do we owe
> to them, especially since we have the power and authority to make literal
> life-and-death decisions about them? What kinds of relationships should we
> have with our companion animals? And what might we learn from cats and dogs
> about the nature and limits of our own morality?
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> The contributors write from a variety of philosophical perspectives,
> including utilitarianism, care ethics, feminist ethics, phenomenology, and
> the genealogy of ideas. The eighteen chapters are divided into two
> sections, to provide a general background to ethical debate about companion
> animals, followed by a focus on a number of crucial aspects of human
> relationships to companion animals. The first section discusses the nature
> of our relationships to companion animals, the foundations of our moral
> responsibilities to companion animals, what our relationships with
> companion animals teach us, and whether animals themselves can act
> ethically. The second part explores some specific ethical issues related to
> crucial aspects of companion animals' lives: breeding, reproduction,
> sterilization, cloning, adoption, feeding, training, working, sexual
> interactions, longevity, dying, and euthanasia.
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> *Pets and People* is dedicated to the memory of the late Jean Harvey,
> Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada,
> whose work was the inspiration for the book.
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> Oxford is offering a pre-order discount for *Pets and People*, which can
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> It is available in paperback and hardcover, as well as e-book form.
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> Christine Overall, editor
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> Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
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