Amy Linch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3805702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Linch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Linch |
| SIGNATURE | LINCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8448-1578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Friendship in Captivity? Plato’s Lysis as a Guide to Interspecies Justice
How should a just society treat the many non-human animals that live entirely within human societies? If securing the capabilities of non-human animals is a basic commitment of justice, how can we know which capabilities to secure, and at what level, to enable them to live lives worthy of their dignity? Friendship, as understood through Plato’s Lysis, suggests a posture toward animals that can enable humans to better apprehend what their flourish…
Cultural Killing and Human-Animal Capability Conflict
The capabilities approach provides a promising basis for developing a theory of interspecies justice grounded in the inherent dignity of all sentient striving beings. As currently formulated, the approach provides guidance for identifying the entitlements of each being, but not for managing tradeoffs between the capabilities of humans and nonhumans. Through considering cultural practices that put human capabilities in conflict with the capabiliti…
Cultivating Human and Non-human Capabilities for Mutual Flourishing
The commitment to human flourishing in various traditions of political thought has been an important bridge between anthropocentrically conceived political theory and the more encompassing concerns of biocentrism and eco-centrism in environmental political theory. This chapter explores how this commitment has been developed and applied by scholars drawing on the theory of human capabilities—or “capabilities theory”—to imagine and construct an env…
Engaging Nature
Pi Sigma Alpha Announces Award Winners
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Domesticating the Conscience
Michael McKeon’s The Secret History of Domesticity offers a powerful theory for understanding the intensity of religious conflict during the 17th century and its role in advancing the central categories of liberal political thought. Through McKeon’s framework we can see the struggle for confessional homogeneity as a conflict over interpretations of the public and the role of the private with respect to its legitimacy, purpose and direction result…
Cultural Killing and Human-Animal Capability Conflict
The capabilities approach provides a promising basis for developing a theory of interspecies justice grounded in the inherent dignity of all sentient striving beings. As currently formulated, the approach provides guidance for identifying the entitlements of each being, but not for managing tradeoffs between the capabilities of humans and nonhumans. Through considering cultural practices that put human capabilities in conflict with the capabiliti…
Domesticating the Conscience
Michael McKeon’s The Secret History of Domesticity offers a powerful theory for understanding the intensity of religious conflict during the 17th century and its role in advancing the central categories of liberal political thought. Through McKeon’s framework we can see the struggle for confessional homogeneity as a conflict over interpretations of the public and the role of the private with respect to its legitimacy, purpose and direction result…
Pi Sigma Alpha Announces Award Winners
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Cultivating Human and Non-human Capabilities for Mutual Flourishing
The commitment to human flourishing in various traditions of political thought has been an important bridge between anthropocentrically conceived political theory and the more encompassing concerns of biocentrism and eco-centrism in environmental political theory. This chapter explores how this commitment has been developed and applied by scholars drawing on the theory of human capabilities—or “capabilities theory”—to imagine and construct an env…
Engaging Nature
Cultural Killing and Human-Animal Capability Conflict
The capabilities approach provides a promising basis for developing a theory of interspecies justice grounded in the inherent dignity of all sentient striving beings. As currently formulated, the approach provides guidance for identifying the entitlements of each being, but not for managing tradeoffs between the capabilities of humans and nonhumans. Through considering cultural practices that put human capabilities in conflict with the capabiliti…
Friendship in Captivity? Plato’s Lysis as a Guide to Interspecies Justice
How should a just society treat the many non-human animals that live entirely within human societies? If securing the capabilities of non-human animals is a basic commitment of justice, how can we know which capabilities to secure, and at what level, to enable them to live lives worthy of their dignity? Friendship, as understood through Plato’s Lysis, suggests a posture toward animals that can enable humans to better apprehend what their flourish…
Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Dignity (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)