Details

Subjects:

Ethics.
Animal welfare.

Contents:

Introduction
Outside ethics: tracing a trend in contemporary moral philosophy
The moral dimension of mind: philosophy of psychology as a guide to ethics
More on animals minds: dogs and concepts
All human beings and animals are inside ethics: reflections on cognitive disability and the dead
A couple of competing views: Foot's ethical naturalism and Wolfe's posthumanism
Extending the argument: literary accounts of moral kinship between humans and animals
Two issues in ethics: eating animals and experimenting on them
Concluding comment.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780674967816
067496781X

OCLC:

908448179