Can animals be moral?
By: Mark Rowlands
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780199842001
Subjects: Ethics; Animals (Philosophy); History; Animal psychology; Emotions in animals
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Can animals be moral?; title: Attributing emotions to animals; title: Moral agents, patients, and subjects; title: The reflection condition: Aristotle and Kant; title: The idiot; title: The phenomenology of moral motivation; title: Moral motivation and meta-cognition; title: Moral reasons and practice; title: Reconstructing normativity and agency; title: A cognitive ethologist from Mars.