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Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the
notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features
belonging only to humans. Using evidence from research into the
minds of non-human animals, it explores the ways in which animals
can be understood as individuals who are aware of themselves, and
the consequent basis of our moral obligations towards them. The
first part of this book argues for a conception of agency in
animals that admits to degrees among individuals and across
species. It explores self-awareness and its various levels of
complexity which depend on an animals' other mental capacities. The
author offers an overview of some established theories in animal
ethics including those of Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Bernard Rollin
and Lori Gruen, and the ways these theories serve to extend moral
consideration towards animals based on various capacities that both
animals and humans have in common. The book concludes by
challenging traditional Kantian notions of rationality and what it
means to be an autonomous individual, and discussing the problems
that still remain in the study of animal ethics.
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