Personhood, ethics, and animal cognition : situating animals in Hare's two level utilitarianism /

Drawing heavily on recent empirical research to update R.M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism and expand Hare's treatment of ""intuitive level rules,"" Gary Varner considers in detail the theory's application to animals while arguing that Hare should have recognized...

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Situating animals in Hare's two level utilitarianism
Situating animals in Hare's 2 level utilitarianism
1. Verfasser:
Varner, Gary E.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Zusammenfassung:
Drawing heavily on recent empirical research to update R.M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism and expand Hare's treatment of ""intuitive level rules,"" Gary Varner considers in detail the theory's application to animals while arguing that Hare should have recognized a hierarchy of persons, near-persons, & the merely sentient.
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1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-280-78251-X
9786613692900
0-19-993079-1
Schlagworte:
Hare, R. M. > (Richard Mervyn)
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