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Books by Corinne Painter
The Contemporary Crisis of the Alienated Non-Human Animal: In Defesne of the Vegan Imperative
This book is about the unjust, morally and politically indefensible treatment of non-human animal... more This book is about the unjust, morally and politically indefensible treatment of non-human animals within contemporary capitalism, as well as about what is necessary to bring about genuine animal liberation, both in terms of lifestyle changes that should be made by individuals and in terms of systematic social, political and economic changes that are required to achieve this end. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to offer a critical analysis of the way in which the expansionist capitalism of today fails to regard and treat animals as they deserve, who is to blame for this, and why and how we should begin to fix this. However, while I will argue that the dissolution of capitalism and the structures and systems that it necessarily relies upon and promotes is required for lasting and comprehensive animal liberation, beyond arguing that Marx’s famous principle “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” should be extended to animals as well as that the system that replaces capitalism requires veganism, I do not articulate what the alternative to capitalism is, nor do I address the many and varied challenges that a post-capitalist society would surely face. To be sure, this important and pressing project is beyond the scope of this book, and it is a complex consideration that many scholars ranging from Marx to contemporary theorists of various kinds, including critical theorists, social theorists, Marxists, ecology theorists, and anarchists (for example) have engaged in, or at least have attempted to. Nevertheless, I hope that the examination of the negative relationship between capitalism and animal liberation that I offer in this book will provide some helpful pointers for those who are engaged in the difficult work of elucidating a just alternative to capitalism that is workable and realistic, which takes into account justice for animals alongside its concern for bringing about justice for humans.
Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience, 2007
As Max Horkheimer wrote sixty years ago, Modern insensitivity to nature is indeed only a variatio... more As Max Horkheimer wrote sixty years ago, Modern insensitivity to nature is indeed only a variation of the pragmatic attitude that is typical of Western Civilization as a whole. Only the forms are different.
Introductory Logic for College Students: What is an Argument?, Jan 2014
Papers by Corinne Painter
In Praise of Speaking, Reading, Writing, Teaching, Discussing: Philosophical Discussions Inspired by Adriaan Peperzak ., 2017
"Aristotelian Forgiveness": The Non-Culpability Requirement of Forgiveness, 2017
In this paper I offer an explication of Aristotle’s account of forgiveness, which provides the fo... more In this paper I offer an explication of Aristotle’s account of forgiveness, which provides the foundation for the comparison of his account to the leading contemporary secular view of forgiveness advanced by Jeffrie Murphy. By focusing on Aristotle’s claim that forgiveness is only appropriate for those wrongdoers who are not morally responsible for their actions, I show that unlike the leading account, forgiveness is intimately connected to excusing and to justifying wrongdoings, and that resentment need not precede forgiveness. I conclude by claiming not only that Aristotle’s account of forgiveness is more coherent than the leading contemporary account, but also by suggesting that it is more compelling, given the importance Aristotle places on compassion for wrongdoers as opposed to blaming them and then attempting to foreswear one’s resentment against them.
Animal Oppression and Capitalism, ed. David Nibert, 2017
Although, in recent years, the literature on non-human animal rights has begun to include explici... more Although, in recent years, the literature on non-human animal rights has begun to include explicit examinations of the political nature and significance of genuine non-human animal liberation, sustained critical treatment of the human exceptionalism that defines the attitudes both of the property-less working class and of the property-owning capitalist class are lacking. This chapter examines not only the way in which capitalism as the structure of our society is responsible for the systematic, horribly exploitative, abusive and violent treatment of non-human animals, but also why even property-less working individuals are responsible for many of the unjustified ways in which they relate to and treat other animals. In this connection, I will argue (1) that one of the primary reasons that a majority of property-less wage workers continue, unquestioningly, to hold onto human exceptionalist beliefs and to engage in practices that uphold these beliefs, is because doing so helps to identify them as more valuable than other animals who are simply treated as slaves, which thereby elevates their status, and (2) that this phenomenon is exacerbated by capitalism’s commodification and accompanying devaluation of the wage labourer. The chapter concludes by arguing that in addition to the need to abolish capitalism, given its logic of oppression and domination, society and the human individuals that organize and live within it, must adopt not only a human egalitarianism but a species egalitarianism that appreciates that the interests of non-human animals must be viewed as an essential ingredient of the common social, political and economic good.
The Stranger as a Socratic Philosopher: The Socratic Nature of the Stranger’s Investigation of the Sophist, 2014
The Connection Between Animal Rights and Animal Liberation: A Reconsideration of the Relation Between Non-human Animal Autonomy and Animal Rights, 2014
The Analogy Between the Holocaust and Factory Farming: A Defense, 2014
The Vegetarian Polis: in Plato’s Republic and in Ours, 2013
Husserl as the Modern Plato? On Hopkin’s Reading of Husserl, 2011
Burt Hopkins's The Philosophy of Husserl presents a challenging and thoughtful elucidation of Hus... more Burt Hopkins's The Philosophy of Husserl presents a challenging and thoughtful elucidation of Husserl's phenomenology that pays special attention to important methodological aspects of Husserl's philosophy, and, thereby, to Husserl's characterization of phenomenology as a pure and transcendental philosophy. Unlike other texts that attempt to elucidate Husserl's philosophy, Hopkins carries out his project in an unusual fashion, by beginning with a consideration of the conflict between Plato and Aristotle regarding the meaning and status of the eide, and ending with a systematic critique of two of Husserl's most fierce opponents, Heidegger and Derrida. This review essay gives an overview of Hopkins's book and offers some critical remarks.
Len Lawlor’s This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida , 2008
Within the last several years, phenomenological reflections on the status of non-human animals an... more Within the last several years, phenomenological reflections on the status of non-human animals and their possible integration into the moral community have begun to increase. Len Lawlor’s newest book, which is a successor to his last book, The Implications of Immanence: Toward a New Concept of Life (2006), is a fine example of this trend. In This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida, Lawlor navigates the rough terrain that links ontological analyses, which tend to provide the focus in most Continental considerations of animals, with explicitly normative–ethical–political reflections on the animal, insofar as he tries to do justice both to the ethical motivation of his analysis and to the ontological and conceptual considerations that figure into his ethical concerns. In this connection, Lawlor himself states that ethics provides the proper motivation and impetus for our philosophical turn towards the non-human animal, which he then claims provides the ba
A Critical Appropriation of Aristotle’s Conception of the Non-moral status of the Animal: On the Connection Between Action, Natural Capacity, Blameworthiness, and Morality, 2006
Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience, 2007
In this paper, [1] I shall employ Edmund Husserl's account of animal consciousness as he presents... more In this paper, [1] I shall employ Edmund Husserl's account of animal consciousness as he presents it in Ideas II, in order to present a compelling description of animality that emphasizes the phenomenological basis for acknowledging the psychic qualities that human and non-human animals share, after which [2] I shall complement Husserl's account of animal consciousness with an elucidation of Edith Stein's phenomenological account of empathy (Einfühlung) as it is laid out in her seminal philosophical work, On the Problem of Empathy. On this basis [3] I will attempt to establish that empathy makes human access to the psychic life of the animal other possible, and that as such it characterizes one of the most fundamental intersubjective relations not only between humans but also between human and non-human animals. In so doing, in contrast to their own respective understandings of animal consciousness and empathy, which neither thinker (explicitly) characterizes as moral, 2 I shall try to argue, rather provocatively, that insofar as both accounts rely upon a notion of a psycho-physical individual's relation to nature (or the world), to objects in nature, and to other subjects in nature that is possessed by nonhuman and by human animals alike and is characterized by care and concern, moral subjectivity is located in the animal psyche rather than in the human psyche. Finally, [4] I will conclude by arguing that because moral subjectivity is located in the animal psyche rather than in the human 2 psyche, empathy provides an appropriate foundation for an ethic of care that crosses species boundaries.
In Defense of Socrates: The Stranger’s Role in Plato’s Sophist, 2005
Aristotle and Functionalism: A Re-Examination of their ‘Natural’ Disagreement, 2004
What It Means to Be Human: Aristotle on Virtue and Skill, 2004
New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2004
Continental Philosophy Review, 2000
Sheehan and Painter present a close paraphrase of Martin Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit (Being and Ti... more Sheehan and Painter present a close paraphrase of Martin Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), Section 74," together with an analytical outline found in the Appendix, and a brief commentary on the text.
The Contemporary Crisis of the Alienated Non-Human Animal: In Defesne of the Vegan Imperative
This book is about the unjust, morally and politically indefensible treatment of non-human animal... more This book is about the unjust, morally and politically indefensible treatment of non-human animals within contemporary capitalism, as well as about what is necessary to bring about genuine animal liberation, both in terms of lifestyle changes that should be made by individuals and in terms of systematic social, political and economic changes that are required to achieve this end. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to offer a critical analysis of the way in which the expansionist capitalism of today fails to regard and treat animals as they deserve, who is to blame for this, and why and how we should begin to fix this. However, while I will argue that the dissolution of capitalism and the structures and systems that it necessarily relies upon and promotes is required for lasting and comprehensive animal liberation, beyond arguing that Marx’s famous principle “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” should be extended to animals as well as that the system that replaces capitalism requires veganism, I do not articulate what the alternative to capitalism is, nor do I address the many and varied challenges that a post-capitalist society would surely face. To be sure, this important and pressing project is beyond the scope of this book, and it is a complex consideration that many scholars ranging from Marx to contemporary theorists of various kinds, including critical theorists, social theorists, Marxists, ecology theorists, and anarchists (for example) have engaged in, or at least have attempted to. Nevertheless, I hope that the examination of the negative relationship between capitalism and animal liberation that I offer in this book will provide some helpful pointers for those who are engaged in the difficult work of elucidating a just alternative to capitalism that is workable and realistic, which takes into account justice for animals alongside its concern for bringing about justice for humans.
Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience, 2007
As Max Horkheimer wrote sixty years ago, Modern insensitivity to nature is indeed only a variatio... more As Max Horkheimer wrote sixty years ago, Modern insensitivity to nature is indeed only a variation of the pragmatic attitude that is typical of Western Civilization as a whole. Only the forms are different.
Introductory Logic for College Students: What is an Argument?, Jan 2014
In Praise of Speaking, Reading, Writing, Teaching, Discussing: Philosophical Discussions Inspired by Adriaan Peperzak ., 2017
"Aristotelian Forgiveness": The Non-Culpability Requirement of Forgiveness, 2017
In this paper I offer an explication of Aristotle’s account of forgiveness, which provides the fo... more In this paper I offer an explication of Aristotle’s account of forgiveness, which provides the foundation for the comparison of his account to the leading contemporary secular view of forgiveness advanced by Jeffrie Murphy. By focusing on Aristotle’s claim that forgiveness is only appropriate for those wrongdoers who are not morally responsible for their actions, I show that unlike the leading account, forgiveness is intimately connected to excusing and to justifying wrongdoings, and that resentment need not precede forgiveness. I conclude by claiming not only that Aristotle’s account of forgiveness is more coherent than the leading contemporary account, but also by suggesting that it is more compelling, given the importance Aristotle places on compassion for wrongdoers as opposed to blaming them and then attempting to foreswear one’s resentment against them.
Animal Oppression and Capitalism, ed. David Nibert, 2017
Although, in recent years, the literature on non-human animal rights has begun to include explici... more Although, in recent years, the literature on non-human animal rights has begun to include explicit examinations of the political nature and significance of genuine non-human animal liberation, sustained critical treatment of the human exceptionalism that defines the attitudes both of the property-less working class and of the property-owning capitalist class are lacking. This chapter examines not only the way in which capitalism as the structure of our society is responsible for the systematic, horribly exploitative, abusive and violent treatment of non-human animals, but also why even property-less working individuals are responsible for many of the unjustified ways in which they relate to and treat other animals. In this connection, I will argue (1) that one of the primary reasons that a majority of property-less wage workers continue, unquestioningly, to hold onto human exceptionalist beliefs and to engage in practices that uphold these beliefs, is because doing so helps to identify them as more valuable than other animals who are simply treated as slaves, which thereby elevates their status, and (2) that this phenomenon is exacerbated by capitalism’s commodification and accompanying devaluation of the wage labourer. The chapter concludes by arguing that in addition to the need to abolish capitalism, given its logic of oppression and domination, society and the human individuals that organize and live within it, must adopt not only a human egalitarianism but a species egalitarianism that appreciates that the interests of non-human animals must be viewed as an essential ingredient of the common social, political and economic good.
The Stranger as a Socratic Philosopher: The Socratic Nature of the Stranger’s Investigation of the Sophist, 2014
The Connection Between Animal Rights and Animal Liberation: A Reconsideration of the Relation Between Non-human Animal Autonomy and Animal Rights, 2014
The Analogy Between the Holocaust and Factory Farming: A Defense, 2014
The Vegetarian Polis: in Plato’s Republic and in Ours, 2013
Husserl as the Modern Plato? On Hopkin’s Reading of Husserl, 2011
Burt Hopkins's The Philosophy of Husserl presents a challenging and thoughtful elucidation of Hus... more Burt Hopkins's The Philosophy of Husserl presents a challenging and thoughtful elucidation of Husserl's phenomenology that pays special attention to important methodological aspects of Husserl's philosophy, and, thereby, to Husserl's characterization of phenomenology as a pure and transcendental philosophy. Unlike other texts that attempt to elucidate Husserl's philosophy, Hopkins carries out his project in an unusual fashion, by beginning with a consideration of the conflict between Plato and Aristotle regarding the meaning and status of the eide, and ending with a systematic critique of two of Husserl's most fierce opponents, Heidegger and Derrida. This review essay gives an overview of Hopkins's book and offers some critical remarks.
Len Lawlor’s This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida , 2008
Within the last several years, phenomenological reflections on the status of non-human animals an... more Within the last several years, phenomenological reflections on the status of non-human animals and their possible integration into the moral community have begun to increase. Len Lawlor’s newest book, which is a successor to his last book, The Implications of Immanence: Toward a New Concept of Life (2006), is a fine example of this trend. In This is Not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida, Lawlor navigates the rough terrain that links ontological analyses, which tend to provide the focus in most Continental considerations of animals, with explicitly normative–ethical–political reflections on the animal, insofar as he tries to do justice both to the ethical motivation of his analysis and to the ontological and conceptual considerations that figure into his ethical concerns. In this connection, Lawlor himself states that ethics provides the proper motivation and impetus for our philosophical turn towards the non-human animal, which he then claims provides the ba
A Critical Appropriation of Aristotle’s Conception of the Non-moral status of the Animal: On the Connection Between Action, Natural Capacity, Blameworthiness, and Morality, 2006
Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience, 2007
In this paper, [1] I shall employ Edmund Husserl's account of animal consciousness as he presents... more In this paper, [1] I shall employ Edmund Husserl's account of animal consciousness as he presents it in Ideas II, in order to present a compelling description of animality that emphasizes the phenomenological basis for acknowledging the psychic qualities that human and non-human animals share, after which [2] I shall complement Husserl's account of animal consciousness with an elucidation of Edith Stein's phenomenological account of empathy (Einfühlung) as it is laid out in her seminal philosophical work, On the Problem of Empathy. On this basis [3] I will attempt to establish that empathy makes human access to the psychic life of the animal other possible, and that as such it characterizes one of the most fundamental intersubjective relations not only between humans but also between human and non-human animals. In so doing, in contrast to their own respective understandings of animal consciousness and empathy, which neither thinker (explicitly) characterizes as moral, 2 I shall try to argue, rather provocatively, that insofar as both accounts rely upon a notion of a psycho-physical individual's relation to nature (or the world), to objects in nature, and to other subjects in nature that is possessed by nonhuman and by human animals alike and is characterized by care and concern, moral subjectivity is located in the animal psyche rather than in the human psyche. Finally, [4] I will conclude by arguing that because moral subjectivity is located in the animal psyche rather than in the human 2 psyche, empathy provides an appropriate foundation for an ethic of care that crosses species boundaries.
In Defense of Socrates: The Stranger’s Role in Plato’s Sophist, 2005
Aristotle and Functionalism: A Re-Examination of their ‘Natural’ Disagreement, 2004
What It Means to Be Human: Aristotle on Virtue and Skill, 2004
New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2004
Continental Philosophy Review, 2000
Sheehan and Painter present a close paraphrase of Martin Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit (Being and Ti... more Sheehan and Painter present a close paraphrase of Martin Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), Section 74," together with an analytical outline found in the Appendix, and a brief commentary on the text.