dc.contributor.advisor | Vallentyne, Peter | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Howe, E. Alexander | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2020 Spring | eng |
dc.description.abstract | The conclusion I defend is that "domestic animals" have a moral claim to what I refer to as "basic citizenship rights," and that they do so for the same reason that "non-autonomous humans" do. I define each of these key terms. The bulk of this dissertation is structured around the following formal argument, which I refer to as the Political AMC, on account of its strategy being borrowed from the so-called Argument from Marginal Cases, or AMC: (P1) Non-rationally autonomous humans have an undefeated moral claim to basic citizenship rights. (P2) If non-rationally autonomous humans have an undefeated moral claim to basic citizenship rights, then possessing vulnerability and no decisive defeaters is a sufficient condition for having an undefeated claim to basic citizenship rights. (C1) Possessing vulnerability and no decisive defeaters is a sufficient condition for having a claim to basic citizenship rights. (P3) Domestic animals possess vulnerability and no decisive defeaters. (C2) Domestic animals have an undefeated claim to basic citizenship rights. The defense offered for Premise 2 is abductive--an inference to the best explanation-- and treated accordingly | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.format.extent | 1 online resource (iii, 135 pages) | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/78077 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/78077 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. Copyright held by author. | |
dc.subject.other | Philosophy | eng |
dc.title | Citizenship goes to the dogs | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | eng |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | eng |