Books by Alice Crary

Alice Crary offers a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. Instead of assuming that the world places no demands on our moral imagination, she underscores the urgency of treating the exercise of moral imagination as necessary for arriving at an adequate world-guided understanding of human beings and animals.

Crary argues that language is a moral acquisition and that any stretch of thought, whether or not it uses moral concepts, expresses the moral outlook encoded in a person's modes of speech. Drawing on philosophical texts, literature, and feminist theory, she poses a case for transforming our understanding of moral reflection and ethical concern.