Morality's Progress

Dale Jamieson is Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Jamieson's book challenges both the philosopher and the non-philosopher to explore what is involved in a consistent set of beliefs about how humans relate to animals and nature. He often shows that this consistency takes us to conclusions that many of us will be uncomfortable with. . . . All of his articles, two of which he has co-authored with Marc Bekoff and one with Tom Regan, exhibit a commendable clarity of writing, close argumentation and an accessible style. . . . Whether or not we fully agree with him on what constitutes moralitys progress, his book certainly constitutes progress in our understanding of morality.

• Preface ; 1. Morality's Progress ; 2. Is Applied Ethics Worth Doing? ; 3. Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality ; 4. Science, Knowledge, and Animal Minds ; 5. On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology (with Marc Bekoff) ; 6. Cognitive Ethology at the End of Neuroscience ; 7. Pain and the Evolution of Behaviour ; 8. On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science (with Tom Regan) ; 9. Experimenting on Animals: A Reconsideration ; 10. Ethics and the Study of Animal Cognition (with Marc Bekoff) ; 11. Against Zoos ; 12. Zoos Revisited ; 13. Wild/Captive and Other Suspect Dualisms ; 14. Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic ; 15. Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive Medicine ; 16. Values in Nature ; 17. The City Around Us ; 18. Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming ; 19. Global Environmental Justicw ; 20. Discourse and Moral Responsibility in Biotechnical Communication ; 21. Sustainability and Beyond ; 22. Afterword: Child of the Sixties ; Bibliography ; Index