"Contractarianism Gone Wild: Carruthers and the Moral Status
of Animals," Between the Species , Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2
(Winter/Spring 1994), pp. 39-48 (for abstract, click here).
Argues against Carruthers's attempt to use a kind of Rawlsian
contractarianism to justify our having direct moral duties to all
humans and only minimal indirect duties to animals.