Weighing Animal Lives
A Critical Assessment of Justification &
Prioritization in Animal-Rights Theories
Uppsala Studies in Social Ethics No, 38


By Frederik Karlsson
December 2009
Uppsala University
ISBN: 9789155475765
341 pages
$79.50 Paper Original


Partial Contents:

1. Rights language & animals
2. Right to life
3. Natural animal rights
4. Justification of animal rights
5. Theocentric Christian ethics
6. Animals in the moral community
7. Contractarian animal rights
8. Conflict resolution
9. Animals & persistent rights conflicts
10. Bibliography



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