A new collection offering provocative and often counterintuitive conclusions on the ethics of meat eating

In a world of industralized farming and feed lots, is eating meat ever a morally responsible choice? Is eating organic or free range sufficient to change the moral equation? Is there a moral cost in not eating meat? As billions of animals continue to be raised and killed by human beings for human consumption, affecting the significance and urgency in answering these questions grow.

This volume collects twelve new essays by leading moral philosophers who address the...

This collection highlights the new trend toward empiricism in modal epistemology. The book represents much of the range of positions on the sources of modal knowledge, featuring essays that explore candidate empirical sources. Contributing authors explore the recent trend away from modal rationalism and toward modal empiricism, and the epistemology of modality. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work. Early chapters focus on the prospects of essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, before challenges for rationalist theories are...

According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she believes that claim on the basis of that theory, and (c) she has no defeaters for her belief in that claim.