S6E3: Moral Imagination and Habitat Rights with Steve Cooke

The Animal Turn

In this episode Steve Cooke discusses the significance of philosophy in helping to foster moral imagination. Such imagination allows for conceptual development, making moral progress and political change possible. With this backdrop, Steve unpacks how the development of habitat rights for animals would be an important step in ensuring animal vital interests are protected.

Date Recorded: 7 September 2023.

Steve Cooke is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leicester. He works on justice and nonhuman animals, and in the ethics of protest and activism. His main interests are in what a just society for human and nonhuman animal might look like, and the ethics of different ways of achieving it. He recently published What are Animal Rights For?, published by Bristol University Press. Learn more about Steve on his university profile page or connect with him on Mastodon.
Claudia (Towne) Hirtenfelder is the founder and host of The Animal Turn. She has a PhD in Geography from Queen’s University, and her research is focused on the significance of the problematization of urban animals. She was awarded the AASA Award for Popular Communication for her work on the podcast. Contact Claudia via email ([e-mail]) or follow her on Twitter (@ClaudiaFTowne).

Featured:

• What are Animal Rights For? by Steve Cooke.
• Imagined Utopias: Animals Rights and the Moral Imagination by Steve Cooke
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals by Christine M. Korsgaard.

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. A bit about Steve (00:03:30)

3. Moral Imagination, The Humanities, and The Arts (00:07:00)

4. Justice: Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory (00:12:47)

5. Animal Rights, Moral Progress, and Vocabulary (00:16:54)

6. Habitat Rights vs. Conservation (00:19:58)

7. Property Rights (00:25:52)

8. Valuing Environments and Individual Rights (00:28:54)

9. The Mobility of Habitat Rights (00:34:54)

10. Sovereignty, Self Determination, and Animal Territories (00:40:05)

11. Quote (Kant) (00:44:20)

12. Critique of Rights (00:50:48)

13. Habitat Rights Among Animals? (00:52:50)

14. What are you working on now? (00:58:10)

15. Animal Highlight: Pale Male (01:01:48)

16. Credits (01:12:59)