Conversations about Harming Animals

Do animal lives matter?

In this delicious conversation, leading thinkers Bob Fischer and Dustin Crummett discuss the problems of eating meat and caging animals.

Should we test medicines on bunny rabbits? Should we protect polar bears?

But if we think animals should be protected, why do we eat them?

Our lives are filled with animals. From our restaurant dinners to our pets at home, for better or worse, we cannot avoid moral questions around how we treat animals.

If you want to understand the humanity we owe to animals, and you're looking for an accessible, intelligent guide to animal welfare, you'll love this book.

Buy it now.



"Readers: I am so glad you picked up this book. Here we have two incredibly nuanced and provocative conversations on the moral permissibility of harming animals. I am confident that you will find it a tremendously rewarding read." - Alison Suen



About the Authors

Bob Fischer is an associate professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He is the author of Animal Ethics (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics (2020).

Dustin Crummett is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has twenty-five papers or book chapters published or forthcoming, many in prestigious journals.

Mark Oppenheimer studied philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He is a practicing advocate at the Johannesburg Bar, and has appeared in the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court.

Jason Werbeloff is a science fiction author with a PhD in Philosophy. He has published over a dozen novels, and co-hosts the Brain in a Vat Philosophy YouTube channel together with Mark Oppenheimer.