Animals and the moral community
Subtitle: mental life, moral status, and kinship
By: Gary Steiner.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780231142342; 9780231512602
Subjects: Consciousness in animals; Animal psychology; Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arguments against rationality in animals; title: Arguments for rationality in animals; title: An associationist model of animal cognition; title: Liberal individualism and the problem of animal rights; title: The ideal of cosmic holism; title: "Cosmo-politics" : grounding liberal individualism in cosmic holism.