Overthink

Animal Justice with Martha Nussbaum

Jan 17, 2023

59:06

Episode guests

Martha Nussbaum

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Kantian Approach to Animal Welfare

01:23

Animals Are Not Just Genetically Programmable to a Certain Life

03:32

Are Nonhuman Animals Able to Have Better Conditions?

02:39

The Capabilities Approach to Animal Ethics

02:31

Introduction

2min

Martha Nussbaum - A Woman of Great Influence

4min

She's a Heavyweight Philosopher, and I Love Her Style

2min

Justice for Animals by Martha C Nussbaum

3min

What Happens to the Whales?

5min

The Capabilities Approach to Animal Ethics

3min

Are Nonhuman Animals Able to Have Better Conditions?

3min

Animals Are Not Just Genetically Programmable to a Certain Life

4min

The Utilitarian Approach to Animals

2min

10.

Sensience and the Ability to Feel Pain

3min

11.

I've Been Thinking a Lot About the Role of Predators in the World

2min

12.

The Partially Examined Life

4min

13.

Why You Shouldn't Stagger Predation

2min

14.

Are You a Passive Versus an Active Citizen?

3min

15.

Do We Need Animal Contraception?

5min

16.

What Are Your Obligations to Animals?

5min

17.

Overthink Podcast Interview With Martha Nussbaum

2min

18.

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

3min

19.

Do Animals Have Subjective Attitudes?

3min

20.

Plants Are Not Just Individuals, Right?

3min

Wild animals who build communities, domestic companions who love, and captive creatures who suffer. In episode 69 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk with renowned philosopher Martha Nussbaum about her capabilities approach to animal justice. They touch on topics as varied as animal sentience, factory farming, habitat destruction, and the ethics of predation. Together, they discuss the failure of established ethical frameworks to fully incorporate the more-than-human world, explore our ethical responsibilities to other animals, and consider how our legal system might need to change in order to facilitate the flourishing of all life on earth.

Works Discussed
Rachel Aviv, The Philosopher of Feelings
Martha Nussbaum, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

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