Personhood, ethics, and animal cognition [electronic resource] : situating animals in Hare's two level utilitarianism / Gary E. Varner.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:- 9780199949465 (ebook) :
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- HV4708 .V37 2012
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.
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