Sentientist Politics

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. This book is devoted to sketching what this 'sentientist politics' might look like.

Alasdair Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Sheffield. His main research interest is in 'animal politics' and his publications include An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (Palgrave, 2010) and Animal Rights without Liberation (Columbia, 2012). His other research interests engage with a broad range of topical ethical issues, most notably human rights, environmental ethics, bioethics, food ethics, and the ethics of imprisonment.

1: Introduction
2: Equality, Rights, and Sentientist Politics
3: Sentientist Democracy
4: Sentientist Cosmopolitan Democracy
5: Sovereignty for Animals?
6: Diversity and Toleration in a Sentientist Political Order
7: Securing Sentientist Politics
8: Conclusion