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Tables of Contents for Animal Rights
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgements
vii
Animal Rights: a Contractarian Defence
1
11
Arguing for One's Species
12
19
The Independence Day Scenario
12
3
The Opening Gambit: How to Argue (Morally) with Aliens
15
4
The Alien Response
19
8
`Thou Art the Man'
27
2
Who Speaks for Wolf?
29
2
Liberalism and the Expanding Circle
31
31
The Expanding Circle
31
1
The Principle of Equal Consideration
32
6
Liberalism: The Right and the Good
38
4
Liberalism and Natural Rights
42
7
Liberalism and Utilitarianism
49
5
Liberalism and Contractarianism
54
5
Liberalism and Animal Rights
59
3
Utilitarianism and Animals: Peter Singer's Case for Animal Liberation
62
25
Utilitarianism I: Definition of Utility
63
3
Utilitarianism II: Maximizing Utility
66
5
Problems with Utilitarianism
71
7
Utilitarianism and Justice
78
2
Rule Utilitarianism
80
2
Utilitarianism and Animals
82
5
Tom Regan: Animal Rights as Natural Rights
87
33
Subjects-of-a-Life
88
1
Inherent Value
89
2
Inherent Value as a Theoretical Postulate
91
2
The Respect Principle
93
1
The Harm Principle
94
1
Moral Rights
95
3
The Miniride Principle
98
2
The Worse-Off Principle
100
3
Regan on Vegetarianism
103
7
Inherent Value is Mysterious
110
3
Inherent Value is Ad Hoc
113
2
Inherent Value is Unnecessary
115
3
Subject-of-a-Life: Defensible but Questionable
118
2
Contractarianism and Animal Rights
120
39
Contractarianism and Rights
120
1
Direct and Indirect Rights
121
3
Contractarianism and Animal Rights: The Orthodox View
124
2
Rawls and Contractarianism
126
9
The Original Position Revisited
135
5
The Original Position and Animal Rights
140
2
Reflective and Unreflective Intuitions
142
3
Other Objections
145
2
Contractarianism and Vegetarianism
147
10
Conclusion
157
2
Animal Minds
159
25
Introduction: Morality and Mentality
159
2
The Holism of the Mental
161
5
An Unsuccessful Refutation
166
3
Attributing Content
169
8
How Animals Can Refer
177
6
Conclusion
183
1
Notes
184
6
Index
190