Contemporary debates on the status of animals
Epic and pre-Socratic thought
Aristotle and the Stoics: the evolution of a cosmic principle
Classical defenses of animals: Plutarch and Porphyry
The status of animals in medieval Christianity
Descartes on the moral status of animals
The empiricists, the utilitarians, and Kant
Conceptions of continuity: Schopenhauer, Darwin, and Schweitzer
Postmodern conceptions of the human-animal boundary
Rethinking the moral status of animals.