The Animal Ethics Reader

by Armstrong; Susan

• ISBN13: 9780415775397
• ISBN10: 0415775396
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The second edition of The Animal Ethics Reader is the most current and comprehensive anthology of readings on the subject of animal ethics. Whilst keeping the best of the previous edition, the editors have updated readings to reflect ongoing developments and emerging issues like rehabilitation of oiled wildlife, human elephant interactions, and animal consciousness and emotion. Classic and contemporary readings are arranged thematically, carefully presenting a balanced representation of the field as it stands, and include selections from leading experts in the field. Each chapter is introduced by the editors and study questions feature at the end. The second edition also contains a new foreword by Bernard Rollin.

Table of Contents

Theories of Animal Ethics

Introduction

The Case for Animal Rights

Reply to Tom Regan

Are Human Rights Human?

Practical Ethics

Feminism and the Treatment of Animals: From Care to Dialogue

Rights, Interests, Desires and Beliefs

Animals and the Harm of Death

Further Reading

Study Questions

Animal Capacities: Pain, Emotion, Consciousness

Introduction

Issues/ Methods of Study

Consciousness, Emotion and Animal Welfare: Insights from Cognitive Science

Reflections

Anthropomorphism and Cross-Species Modeling

Consciousness, Emotion, and Suffering

A neuropsychological and evolutionary approach to animal consciousness and animal suffering

Animal Consciousnes: What Matters and Why

Animal Minds and Animal Emotions

New Evidence of Animal Consciousness

Animal Pain

How Facts Matter

Further Reading

Study Questions

Primates and Cetaceans

Introduction

Primates

Deep Ethology, Animal Rights, and The Great Ape/Animal Project: Resisting Speciesism and Expanding the Community of Equals

Ape Consciousness Human Consciousness: A Perspective Informed by Language and Culture

Cultures in Chimpanzees

Are Apes Persons? The Case for Primate Intersubjectivity

Problems Faced by Wild and Captive Chimpanzees: Finding Solutions

Cetaceans

Culture and Conservation of Non-Humans with Reference to Whales and Dolphins

Into the Brains of Whales

Whales as Persons

Further Reading

Study Questions

Animals for Food

Introduction

Animals for Food

Meat-Eating

Thinking like Animals

A Major Change

Food Prices and Animal Welfare

Animal Agriculture Alliance, Animal Agriculture: Myths and Facts

The Least Harm Principle May Require that Humans Consume a Diet Containing Large Herbivores, not a Vegan Diet

The Ethical Imperative to Control Pain and Suffering in Farm Animals

The Basic Argument for Vegetarianism

The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women

A Paradox of Ethic Vegetarianism: Unfairness to Women and Children

Religious Perspectives

Judaism

Enhancing the Divine Image

The Bible and Killing for Food

Islam

Further Reading

Study Questions

Animal Experimentation

Introduction

Laboratory Studies

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