ABSTRACT
What’s next for animal ethics? To answer this question, this chapter considers the idea that animals should be granted legal personhood. Two lessons emerge. First, animal ethics can make progress by putting familiar ideas to work in new contexts—as seen, for instance, in the way that the Nonhuman Rights Project has tried to advance the legal rights of animals. Second, animal ethics can make progress by being more self-critical—as seen, for instance, in an objection that this chapter sketches to one of the arguments on which the Nonhuman Rights Project relies.
