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

Title: Animals and the moral community : mental life, moral status, and kinship / Gary Steiner.
Author: Steiner, Gary, 1956-
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xii, 212 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

Animal psychology
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects
Consciousness in animals

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. [165]-201) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

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.

ISBN

9780231142342 (cloth : alk. paper)
023114234X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231512602 (e-book : alk. paper)
0231512600 (e-book : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008008299