Publications in English on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature (for and against)

Sapontzis, Steve F., “Predation”, Ethics and Animals , 5 (2), 1984, 27-38. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/ethicsandanimals/vol5/iss2/4/

Sapontzis, Steve F., Morals, Reason and Animals , Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. http://goo.gl/TvjES

Sagoff, Mark, “Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce”, Osgoode Hall Law Journal , 22, 1984, 297-307, reprinted in Zimmerman, Michael E.; Callicott, John Baird; Sessions, George; Warren, Karen J. & Clark, John (eds.), Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993), 84-94. http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Introduction_to_Philosophy_Fall_09/Sagoff_Animal_Liberatio n_%26_Env_Ethics.pdf

Næss, Arne, “Should We Try to Relieve Clear Cases of Suffering in Nature?”, Pan Ecology , 6 (1), 1991, 1-5. http://goo.gl/ADY1M

Rolston III, Holmes, “Disvalues in Nature”, The Monist , 75 (2), 1992, 250-278. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hrolston/disvalues.pdf

Gould, Stephen J., “Nonmoral Nature”, Natural History , 91, 1982, 19-26, reprinted in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History , New York: W. W. Norton, 1994, 32-44. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_nonmoral.html

Hettinger, Ned, “Valuing Predation in Rolston's Environmental Ethics: Bambi Lovers Versus Tree Huggers”, Environmental Ethics , 16 (1), 1994, 3-20. http://www.umweltethik.at/download.php?id=447

Dawkins, Richard, “God’s Utility Function”, Scientific American , 273, 1995 80-85, chapter 4 of River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life , New York: Basic Books, 1995. http://www.godslasteraar.org/assets/ebooks/Dawkins_Gods_Utility_Function_sec.pdf

1 Publications in English on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature

Ng, Yew-Kwang, “Towards Welfare Biology: Evolutionary Economics of Animal Consciousness and Suffering”, Biology and Philosophy , 10 (3), 1995, 255-285. http://goo.gl/uWk1a

Kirkwood, J. K. & Sainsbury, A. W., “Ethics of Interventions for the Welfare of Free-living Wild Animals”, Animal Welfare , 5 (3), 1996, 235-243. http://goo.gl/6K3RE

Everett, Jennifer, “Environmental Ethics, Animal Welfarism, and the Problem of Predation: A Bambi Lover's Respect for Nature”, Ethics and the Environment , 6 (1), 2001, 42-67. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/een/summary/v006/6.1everett.html

Benatar, David, “Why the Naive Argument against Moral Vegetarianism Really is Naïve”, Environmental Values , 10, 2001, 103-112. http://ethik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_ethik_wiss_dialog/Benatar__D._2001_Veg_- _the_naiv_argument_s6.pdf

Cowen, Tyler, “Policing Nature”, Environmental Ethics , 25 (2), 2003, 169-182. http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Environmental_Studies_695_Environmental_Philosophy/Cowe n_Policing_Nature.pdf

Bovenkerk, Bernice; Stafleu, Frans; Tramper, Ronno; Vorstenbosch, Jan & Brom, Frans W. A., “To Act or Not to Act? Sheltering Animals from the Wild: a Pluralistic Account of a Conflict between Animal and Environmental Ethics”, Ethics, Place and Environment, 6 (1), 2003, 13-26. http://goo.gl/dmtcR

Clement, Grace, “The Ethic of Care and the Problem of Wild Animals”, Between the Species , 10/3, 2003. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol13/iss3/2/

Fink, Charles K., “The Predation Argument”, Between the Species , 13 (5), 2005, 1-16. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol13/iss5/3

Clarke, Matthew & Ng, Yew-Kwang, “Population Dynamics and Animal Welfare: Issues Raised by the Culling of Kangaroos in Puckapunyal”, Social Choice and Welfare , 27 (2), 2006, 407- 422. http://goo.gl/cYwiS

2 Publications in English on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature

Nussbaum, Martha C., Frontiers of Justice , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. http://goo.gl/ke7qI

Hadley, John, “The Duty to Aid Nonhuman Animals in Dire Need,” Journal of Applied Philosophy , 23 (4), 2006, 445-451. http://goo.gl/baLvk

Raterman, Ty, “An Environmentalist’s Lament on Predation”, Environmental Ethics , 30 (4), 2008, 417-434. http://www1.pacific.edu/~traterma/raterman_predation.pdf

Pearce, David, “Blueprint for a Cruelty-Free World: Reprogramming Predators”, The Abolitionist Project , 2009. http://www.abolitionist.com/reprogramming/index.html

Pearce, David, “The End of Suffering”, The Hedonistic Imperative , 2010. http://www.hedweb.com/transhumanism/humanity-plus.html

Dawrst, Alan, “The Predominance of Wild-Animal Suffering over Happiness: An Open Problem”, Essays on Reducing Suffering , 2009. http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/wild-animals.pdf

Dawrst, Alan, “The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering”, Essays on Reducing Suffering , 2009. http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/suffering-nature.html

Simmons, Aaron, “Animals, Predators, the Right to Life and the Duty to Save Lives”, Ethics & the Environment , 14(1), 2009, 15-27. http://goo.gl/9AULt

Palmer, Clare, Animal Ethics in Context , New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. http://goo.gl/dHJXO

Horta, Oscar, “The Ethics of the Ecology of Fear against the Nonspeciesist Paradigm: A Shift in the Aims of Intervention in Nature”, Between the Species , 13 (10), 2010, 163-187. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol13/iss10/10/

3 Publications in English on wild animal suffering and intervention in nature

Horta, Oscar, “Debunking the Idyllic View of Natural Processes: Population Dynamics and Suffering in the Wild”, Télos , 17, 2010, 73-88. http://masalladelaespecie.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/debunkingidyllicviewhorta.pdf

Horta, Oscar, “Disvalue in Nature and Intervention”, Pensata Animal , 34, 2010. http://masalladelaespecie.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/disvaluenatureintervention.pdf

McMahan, Jeff, “The Meat Eaters”, The New York Times , 19 september 2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/the-meat-eaters/

McMahan, Jeff , “A Response”, The New York Times , 28 september 2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/predtors-a-response/

Donaldson, Sue & Kymlicka, Will, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights , New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. http://goo.gl/GyPcI

Alward, Peter, “Naïve! Who, me?”, unpublished manuscript. http://people.uleth.ca/~peter.alward/papers/Naive-who-me.htm

Other works that also tackle the issue

Mill, John Stuart, “On Nature”, in his Nature, The Utility of Religion and Theism , London: Rationalist Press, 1904 [1874], 7-33. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/texts/mill_on.htm

Jamieson, Dale, “Rights, Justice, and Duties to Provide Assistance: A Critique of Regan’s Theory of Rights”. Ethics , 100 (2), 1990, 349-362. http://goo.gl/7hjWX

Holtug, Nils, “Equality for Animals”, in Ryberg, Jesper; Petersen, Thomas S. & Wolf, Clark (eds.), New Waves in Applied Ethics , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 1-24. http://goo.gl/GYRAx

Hills, Alison, “Utilitarianism, Contractualism and Demandingness”, Philosophical Quarterly , 60 (239), 2010, 225-242. http://es.scribd.com/doc/30648958/Utilitarianism-Contractual-Ism-and-Demandingness-1-2

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