TY - BOOK AU - Varner,Gary E. TI - Personhood, ethics, and animal cognition: situating animals in Hare's two level utilitarianism SN - 9780199949465 (ebook) : AV - HV4708 .V37 2012 U1 - 179.3 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Hare, R. M. KW - Animal rights KW - Cognition in animals KW - Ethics KW - Utilitarianism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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, and the merely sentient UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199758784.001.0001 ER -