Animal Rights

by Palmer,Clare; Palmer,Clare

• ISBN13: 9780754627418
• ISBN10: 0754627411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Do animals have moral rights? If so, which ones? How does this affect our thinking about agriculture and experimentation? If animals have moral rights, should they be protected by law? These are some of the questions addressed in this collection, which contains more than 30 papers spanning nearly 40 years of debates about animal rights. It includes work by leading advocates of animal rights both in philosophy and law, as well as contributions by those resolutely opposed to the very idea of animal rights. A substantial Introduction surveys key arguments in the area and puts the papers in context.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Arguments in Favour of Animal Rights

All animals are equal

The case for animal rights

The rights of the non-human world

Why animals have a right to liberty

Critical Views on Animal Rights - and Some Responses

Animal rights

Animal rights: a reply to Frey

Moral rights and animals

Must an opponent of animal rights also be an opponent of human rights?

Animal rights revisited

Inherent value and moral rights

Animal liberation or animal rights

Rights, justice and duties to provide assistance: a critique of Regan's theory of rights

Animal rights and feminist theory

Animal liberation and environmental ethics: bad marriage, quick divorce

Animal rights and social relations

Doing right by our animal companions

Animal Rights and Human Uses

Eating meat and eating people

Utilitarianism, vegetarianism and animal rights

Social ethics, animal rights, and agriculture

The case for the use of animals in biomedical research

On Carl Cohen's 'kind' arguments for animal rights and against animal rights

Your daughter or your dog? A feminist assessment of the animal research issue

The ethics of animal research: what are the prospects for agreement?

Zoos and the rights of animals

Political and Legal Rights for Animals

Human duties and animal rights

Taking sentience seriously

Animals as subjects or objects of rights

Nonhuman animal property: reconciling environmentalism and animal rights

A great shout: legal rights for great apes

Simian sovereignty

Index

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