Animals and the moral community : mental life, moral status, and kinship / Gary Steiner.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steiner, Gary, 1956-
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Consciousness in animals.
Animal psychology.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physical Description:xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Arguments against rationality in animals
  • Arguments for rationality in animals
  • An associationist model of animal cognition
  • Liberal individualism and the problem of animal rights
  • The ideal of cosmic holism
  • "Cosmo-politics" : grounding liberal individualism in cosmic holism.