Utilitarianism and nonhuman animals
In Richard Yetter Chappell, Darius Meissner, and William MacAskill, An Introduction to Utilitarianism, Oxford, 2023
Abstract
This essay advances three broad claims about utilitarianism and nonhuman animals. First, utilitarianism plausibly implies that all vertebrates and many invertebrates morally matter, but that some of these animals might matter more than others. Second, utilitarianism plausibly implies that we should
