Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

One. Beastly Morality: A Twisting Tale

Jonathan K. Crane

PART ONE. The Permeability of Morality

Two. De-humanizing Morality

Kendy Hess

Three. HumAnI(m)Morality

Sean Meighoo

Four. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven: Judaism’s Lessons in Beastly Morality

Mark Goldfeder

PART TWO. Observing Animal Morality

Five. Animal Empathy as Moral Building Block

Frans B. M. de Waal

Six. Humans, Other Animals, and the Biology of Morality

Elisabetta Palagi

Seven. Moral Mutts: Social Play, Fairness, and Wild Justice

Marc Bekoff

Eight. Fighting Fair: The Ecology of Honor in Humans and Animals

Dan Demetriou

PART THREE. Reading Animal Morality

Nine. Reading, Teaching Insects: Ant Society as Pedagogical Device in Rabbinic Literature

Harrison King

Ten. Jakushin’s Dogs and the Goodness of Animals: Preaching the Moral Life of Beasts in Medieval Japanese Tale Literature

Michael Bathgate

PART FOUR. Reconceiving Animal Morality

Eleven. Just Chimpanzees? A Thomistic Perspective on Ethics in a Nonhuman Species

John Berkman

Twleve. Brutal Justice? Animal Litigation and the Question of Countertradition

Jonathan K. Crane and Aaron S. Gross

PART FIVE. Epilogue

Thirteen. Beastly Morality: Untangling Possibilities

Jonathan K. Crane, Ani B. Satz, Lori Marino, and Cynthia Willett

List of Contributors

Index