Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Bernard E. Rollin
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Human ""Superiority"" and the Argument from Marginal Cases
  • Candidates for Inclusion in the Moral Community
  • Frequently Held Views on Who Counts Morally: Homocentrism
  • Frequently Held Views on Who Counts Morally: The Full-Personhood View
  • The Argument from Marginal Cases: Two Versions
  • Chapter 2. Responses to the Argument from Marginal Cases
  • Failure to Address the Issue
  • Unsuccessful Attacks on the Argument from Marginal Cases
  • The Scope of the Argument from Marginal Cases
  • The Final Response.
  • Chapter 3. Speciesism and Full Personhood
  • The Speciesism Debate: A Brief History
  • Attempts to Show That Membership in a Species Characterized by Full Personhood Is a Morally Relevant Characteristic
  • Attempts to Show That Speciesism Is Justified Even if Species Membership Is Not a Morally Relevant Characteristic
  • Implications of the Failure to Justify Speciesism
  • Chapter 4. Utilitarianism and the Protection of Innocent Life
  • Utilitarianism and the Full-Personhood View
  • Utilitarianism and the Charge of Inadequate Individual Protection.
  • Utilitarian Attempts to Reject the Replaceability Argument
  • Rejection of the Extended Prior-Existence View
  • Preference Utilitarianism and Replaceability
  • Return to the Case of the Wretched Child
  • Total-View Utilitarianism and Moral Rights
  • Chapter 5. Justification and Judgment: Claiming and Respecting Basic Moral Rights
  • Attempts to Provide Justification for the Moral Considerability and Significance of Beings Who Are Not Full Persons
  • Justifying the Rights View
  • Respecting Basic Moral Rights: Obligations and Conflicts
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.