Can animals be moral
Rowlands, MarkAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
Building on the ethological evidence, this book engages in meticulous philosophical analysis and argument, and decides that animals can indeed be moral. Animals can act morally in the sense they can act for moral reasons. Or, at least, they are no compelling logical obstacles to supposing that this is the case. This conclusion has important implications not just for our understanding of animals but also of the central concepts we employ in understanding the moral lives of humans, such as motivation, action, and agency.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Building on the ethological evidence, this book engages in meticulous philosophical analysis and argument, and decides that animals can indeed be moral. Animals can act morally in the sense they can act for moral reasons. Or, at least, they are no compelling logical obstacles to supposing that this is the case. This conclusion has important implications not just for our understanding of animals but also of the central concepts we employ in understanding the moral lives of humans, such as motivation, action, and agency.
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Can animals be moral? -- Attributing emotions to animals -- Moral agents, patients, and subjects -- The reflection condition: Aristotle and Kant -- The idiot -- The phenomenology of moral motivation -- Moral motivation and meta-cognition -- Moral reasons and practice -- Reconstructing normativity and agency -- A cognitive ethologist from Mars.
Ethics
Animals (Philosophy)
Emotions in animals
Animal psychology
Ethics
Eukaryota
Psychology, Social
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Psychiatry and Psychology
Organisms
Humanities
Philosophy
Morals
Animals
Emotions
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
Ethics