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TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction: Why Should We Care?; I.1 Reasons to care; Figure I.1: Degrees of moral status I; I.2 Examples and intuitions; Example 1: Experimentation; Example 2: House on fire; Figure I.2: Degrees of moral status II; I.3 How many levels are there?; Figure I.3: Degrees of moral status III; I.4 The approach we will take; I.5 A brief overview; Chapter 1: Our Place in the Universe and in the Analysis; Introduction; Text box 1.1: What is it like to be a bat?; 1.1 Our place in the physical universe; 1.2 Our place in the moral universe; 1.3 Moral status and degrees of moral status; 1.4 Being more important versus having more at stake; 1.5 Three morally significant harms and wrongs; Summary; Chapter 2: The Possibility of Degrees of Moral Status; Introduction; 2.1 Can we reject degrees of moral status out of hand?; 2.2 Three types of morally relevant properties; Text box 2.1: A catalog of morally relevant properties; 2.3 Why degrees of moral status require moral status enhancing properties; Summary; Chapter 3: Are Some Properties Moral Status Enhancing?; Introduction; 3.1 An excess of candidates; 3.2 The improbability of moral status decreasing properties; 3.3 Do capacities speak louder than actions?; 3.4 The problem of relevance; 3.5 The nature of thresholds; Summary; Chapter 4: Is it Really Worse to Kill Humans than Animals?; Introduction; 4.1 The differences between killing, dying, and being dead; 4.2 Why is it bad to die?; 4.3 Why is it wrong to kill?; Summary; Chapter 5: Are Pain and Suffering Really Worse in Humans than Animals?; Introduction; 5.1 (Not) feeling the pain of others; 5.2 Downplaying the suffering of others; 5.3 Assuming animals are less important; 5.4 (Not) ignoring the consequences; Summary; Chapter 6: Does Respect Really Apply to Humans but not Animals?; Introduction; 6.1 Do animals deserve respect as individuals?; 6.2 Should animals decide how their lives go?; 6.3 The connection between sentience and respect; Summary; Chapter 7: Should We Believe in Degrees of Moral Status Anyway?; Introduction; 7.1 Degrees of moral status as a rule of thumb; 7.2 Degrees of moral status as proper partiality; Summary; Chapter 8: Life without Degrees of Moral Status; Introduction; 8.1 What’s the difference?; 8.2 Do we have to spend all our time helping animals?; 8.3 Do rabbits have rights?; 8.4 The ethics of raising animals and eating them; 8.5 The ethics of animal experimentation; 8.6 Humans who lack superior cognitive capacities; 8.7 Superbeings; Summary; Conclusion: A Future without Hierarchies; C.1 Summary of the argument; C.2 Implications of the conclusion; Photograph C.1: Learning to walk with animals; Appendix 1: Commonly cited superior cognitive capacities

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