Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights argues for a vision of a just society (or a just earth) in which humans and animals share, on the basis of equal moral status, their living space. To achieve this goal, political categories hitherto reserved for humans would be extended to animals. Thus domesticated…
Richard Keshen
Richard Keshen is a professor of philosophy at Cape Breton University. He is the author of Reasonable Self-Esteem (McGill-Queens University Press, 1995) and co-editor of Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is writing a book on political philosophy with specific reference to Canada.