Animal Rights Moral Theory and Practice

In this 2nd edition, the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights.

MARK ROWLANDS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami and author of ten books including Animals Like Us (2002), The Philosopher at the End of the Universe (2003), The Nature of Consciousness (2001) and Body Language (2006).

Animal Rights and Moral Theories	p. 1
Arguing for One's Species	p. 8
The Independence Day scenario	p. 8
The opening gambit: how to argue (morally) with aliens	p. 11
The alien response	p. 16
Thou art the man	p. 26
Who speaks for wolf?	p. 29
Utilitarianism and Animals: Peter Singer's Case for Animal Liberation	p. 31
Utilitarianism I: definition of utility	p. 32
Utilitarianism II: maximizing utility	p. 36
Problems with utilitarianism	p. 42
Utilitarianism and justice	p. 48
Rule utilitarianism	p. 51
Utilitarianism and animals	p. 53
Tom Regan: Animals Rights as Natural Rights	p. 58
Subjects-of-a-life	p. 59
Inherent value	p. 61
Inherent value as a theoretical postulate	p. 63
The respect principle	p. 66
The harm principle	p. 67
Moral rights	p. 68
The miniride principle	p. 71
The worse-off principle	p. 74
Regan on vegetarianism	p. 77
Inherent value is mysterious	p. 86
Inherent value is ad hoc	p. 89
Inherent value is unnecessary	p. 93
Virtue Ethics and Animals	p. 98
The concept of virtue?	p. 98
Virtue ethics and animals: Scruton versus Hursthouse	p. 100
The virtue of mercy	p. 113
Conclusion	p. 117
Contractarianism and Animal Rights	p. 118
Contractarianism and moral status	p. 118
Two forms of contractarianism	p. 123
Contractarianism and animal rights: the orthodox view	p. 129
Rawls and contractarianism	p. 131
The original position revisited	p. 142
The original position and animal rights	p. 147
Hobbesian remnants	p. 152
Other objections	p. 158
Contractarianism and vegetarianism	p. 162
Conclusion	p. 174
Animal Minds	p. 176
Introduction: morality and mentality	p. 176
HOT and the rejection of animal consciousness	p. 181
The problem of regress	p. 183
The holism of the mental	p. 187
An unsuccessful refutation	p. 193
Attributing content	p. 196
Belief and truth	p. 209
How animals can refer	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 217
Notes	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 231
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