Can animals be moral?

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Building on the ethological evidence, this book engages in meticulous philosophical analysis and argument, and decides that animals can indeed be moral. Animals can act morally in the sense they can act for moral reasons. Or, at least, they are no compelling logical obstacles to supposing that this is the case. This conclusion has important implications not just for our understanding of animals but also of the central concepts we employ in understanding the moral lives of humans, such as motiva…

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Full title :Can animals be moral? / Mark Rowlands.

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Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

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Includes index.

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)

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oclc:ocn864685377
LC Classification:BJ1031
Dewey Decimal:179/.3

Can animals be moral? -- Attributing emotions to animals -- Moral agents, patients, and subjects -- The reflection condition: Aristotle and Kant -- The idiot -- The phenomenology of moral motivation -- Moral motivation and meta-cognition -- Moral reasons and practice -- Reconstructing normativity and agency -- A cognitive ethologist from Mars.

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Animal psychology Animal, 2017 Animals Animals (Philosophy) Animaux -- Psychologie Animaux (Philosophie) Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms emotion Émotions Émotions chez les animaux Emotions in animals Ethics Ethics -- History Eukaryota History Humanities Morale -- Histoire Moralisches Handeln Morals Organisms