Using the concept of guardianship for cognitively impaired human beings, broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal reside.
Placing language at the center of philosophical analysis, and focusing on public concern for animals, this work shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights to the vocabulary people use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of animals.
A collection of essays designed to advance philosophical thinking about attitudes toward and relationships with animals by bringing together new perspectives regarding animal ethics rooted in metaethics, metaphilosophy, epistemology and moral psychology.