Outside ethics: tracing a trend in contemporary moral philosophy -- The moral dimension of mind: philosophy of psychology as a guide to ethics -- More on animals minds: dogs and concepts -- All human beings and animals are inside ethics: reflections on cognitive disability and the dead -- A couple of competing views: foot's ethical naturalism and Wolfe's posthumanism -- Extending the argument: literary accounts of moral kinship between humans and animals -- Two issues in ethics: eating animals and experimenting on them
Summary
Alice Crary offers a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. Instead of assuming that the world places no demands on our moral imagination, she underscores the urgency of treating the exercise of moral imagination as necessary for arriving at an adequate world-guided understanding of human beings and animals
