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    Kantian Ethics and our Duties to Nonhuman Animals
    (California Polytechnic State University, 2023) Kahn, Samuel; Philosophy, School of Liberal Arts
    Many take Kantian ethics to founder when it comes to our duties to animals. In this paper, I advocate a novel approach to this problem. The paper is divided into three sections. In the first, I canvass various passages from Kant in order to set up the problem. In the second, I introduce a novel approach to this problem. In the third, I defend my approach from various objections. By way of preview: I advocate rejecting the premise that nonhuman animals are nonrational.