Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

Gary Steiner

October, 2008
Cloth, 232 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14234-2
$40.00 / £27.50

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Arguments against Rationality in Animals

2. Arguments for Rationality in Animals

3. An Associationist Model of Animal Cognition

4. Liberal Individualism and the Problem of Animal Rights

5. The Ideal of Cosmic Holism

6. “Cosmo-Politics”: Grounding Liberal Individualism in Cosmic Holism

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies

About the Author

Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism and Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy.

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