DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25101647 ISSN: 0140-525X

Animals, future generations, and resource-rational contractualism

Harry R. Lloyd

Abstract

Levine et al. understate the range of folk moral judgments that cannot be easily explained by their contractualist theory of moral cognition (including judgments about future generations and nonhuman animals). On the flipside, Levine et al. also overstate the range of moral judgments that cannot be easily explained by rival deontological or consequentialist theories of moral cognition.

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