Can Animals Be Moral?

Robert Streifer, Mind Can Animals Be Moral? offers the most comprehensive analysis and evaluation to date of the traditional views underlying scepticism about the moral subjecthood of animals and it does an excellent job of clarifying the conceptual and argumentative landscape.

Jessica Pierce, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Philosophers will appreciate the carefulness of Rowlands's arguments, the clarity of his writing, and his understated sense of humor.

John Shand, The Philosophical Quarterly An excellent book, not only on what it is for animals to be moral, but what it is for humans to be moral, whether one agrees with the conclusions or not. In short, it is a book on what it is to be moral per se that challenges with skill and imagination goes-without-saying preconceptions of the moral and so deserves to be widely read.

Dr. Tom McClelland, Metapsychology This book makes an enormous contribution to an under-explored topic. It makes a novel and persuasive case that animals can be moral within certain limits, and lays the way for future philosophical and empirical enquiry.

Chris Bratcher, Ethical Record An important contribution to the extended field of Ethics...very crisply and also engagingly written.

Martin Whiting, Animal Welfare I would strongly recommend this book ... to those who are studying animal behaviour and to those who are working on ethics and moral status of animals.

<br>Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of fourteen books, translated into more than twenty languages. His autobiography, The Philosopher and the Wolf was published in 2008, and became an international bestseller.<br>

1. CAN ANIMALS BE MORAL?; 2. ATTRIBUTING EMOTIONS TO ANIMALS; 3. MORAL AGENTS, PATIENTS, AND SUBJECTS; 4. THE REFLECTION CONDITION: ARISTOTLE AND KANT; 5. THE IDIOT; 6. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MORAL MOTIVATION; 7. MORAL MOTIVATION AND META-COGNITION; 8. MORAL REASONS AND PRACTICE; 9. RECONSTRUCTING NORMATIVITY AND AGENCY; 10. A COGNITIVE ETHOLOGIST FROM MARS