Interspecies Ethics

by Cynthia Willett

Book Overview

Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral theory. Situating biosocial ethics firmly within coevolutionary processes, this volume has profound implications for work in social and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167776
• ISBN13: 9780231167772
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher