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Author: Bernard E. Rollin
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780879757892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the theoretical and practical issues related to animals and morality, focusing on the problems of research animals and pets, and looking at the breach between animal advocates and the scientific and medical community.
Author: Bernard E. Rollin
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRollin offers a fully revised discussion of this white-hot debate over animal rights. Many of Rollin's concerns have taken center stage, and his proposed legislation to protect animals in experimentation has become federal law. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Bernard E. Rollin
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780879751586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRollin offers a fully revised discussion of this white-hot debate over animal rights. Many of Rollin's concerns have taken center stage, and his proposed legislation to protect animals in experimentation has become federal law. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Tom Regan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780520054608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.
Author: Tom Regan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2003-11-22
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0742599388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about other animals can lead to a better understanding of ourselves.
Author: Mylan Engel
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016-03-16
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1498531911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the “kind” argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780826494047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this acclaimed book, Scruton takes the issues relating to vivisection, hunting, animal testing and BSE and places them in a wider framework of thought and feeling. Now available in paperback
Author: Alasdair Cochrane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0231158262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous agents, they have no intrinsic interest in liberty. As such, he argues that our obligations to animals lie in ending practices that cause their suffering and death and do not require the liberation of animals. Cochrane's "interest-based rights approach" weighs the interests of animals to determine which is sufficient to impose strict duties on humans. In so doing, Cochrane acknowledges that sentient animals have a clear and discernable right not to be made to suffer and not to be killed, but he argues that they do not have a prima facie right to liberty. Because most animals possess no interest in leading freely chosen lives, humans have no moral obligation to liberate them. Moving beyond theory to the practical aspects of applied ethics, this pragmatic volume provides much-needed perspective on the realities and responsibilities of the human-animal relationship.
Author: Carl Cohen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780847696635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in addressing such questions; the answers given must have enormous practical importance. Here for the first time in the same volume, the animal rights debate is argued deeply and fully by the two most articulate and influential philosophers representing the opposing camps. Each makes his case in turn to the opposing case. The arguments meet head on: Are we humans morally justified in using animals as we do? A vexed and enduring controversy here receives its deepest and most eloquent exposition.
Author: Sherry F. Colb
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-03-08
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0231540957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions faced by activists in the pro-life and animal rights movements. Beating Hearts maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern. The authors argue that nearly all human exploitation of animals is unjustified. Early abortions do not contradict the sentience principle because they precede fetal sentience, and Beating Hearts explains why the mere potential for sentience does not create moral entitlements. Late abortions do raise serious moral questions, but forcing a woman to carry a child to term is problematic as a form of gender-based exploitation. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the pro-life and animal rights movements. Should legal reforms precede or follow attitudinal changes? Do gory images win over or alienate supporters? Is violence ever principled? By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, Beating Hearts uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other.
