A theory of justice for animals : animal rights in a nonideal world / Robert Garner.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garner, Robert, 1960-
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Animal rights.
Physical Description:197 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : animals, justice and nonideal theory
  • Contractarianism, animals and justice
  • Why animals need justice
  • Indirect duties, virtue ethics and animals
  • The animal welfare ethic
  • Animal rights and justice
  • Three positions rejected
  • Animal rights as ideal and nonideal theory
  • The argument from marginal cases revisited
  • Conclusion.