Nin gii nisaa a'aw waawaashkeshii: Engaging Animal Rights Theory with Ojibwe and Cree Theories of Hunting Ethics
In this paper, it is argued that animal rights theorists commit willful hermeneutical ignorance (WHI), a form of epistemic injustice, when they fail to engage with Indigenous hunting practices as components of robust and nuanced philosophical traditions. In doing so, they obscure the nature of their...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Environmental ethics
Year: 2025, Volume: 47, Issue: 3, Pages: 327-347 |
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| Summary: | In this paper, it is argued that animal rights theorists commit willful hermeneutical ignorance (WHI), a form of epistemic injustice, when they fail to engage with Indigenous hunting practices as components of robust and nuanced philosophical traditions. In doing so, they obscure the nature of their disagreement with Indigenous theories over the ethicality of hunting. There is a fundamentally different understanding of taking life at the heart of the disagreement between animal rights and certain Indigenous theories. These different conceptions are essential to these theories' moral evaluations of hunting and are supported by distinct conceptual frameworks. Yet inter-framework disagreement is exactly the kind of thing rendered invisible to those who perpetrate WHI - as they uncritically privilege their own conceptual framings. Ultimately, it is concluded that responsible cross-cultural philosophical dialogue must engage with this disagreement at the framework-level. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Environmental ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics2025106104 |
