Rodríguez, Iván Ortega: Animal Citizenship, Phenomenology, and Ontology: Some reflections on Donaldson’s & Kymlicka’s Zoopolis

_Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics_ 8 (1):21-32. 2017This paper is a dialogue with Sue Donaldsons and Will Kymlickas book Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights. My thesis is that, despite the authors reticence, considerations in first philosophy regarding humans and nonhumans are relevant to their goal of building a more comprehensive animal rights philosophy. What is more, I believe that first philosophy actually can be of help for their proposal, specifically in the form of phenomenology