Author : Peter Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1992-09-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521436892
Peter Carruthers explores a variety of moral theories, arguing that animals lack direct moral significance.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826494047
In 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 : Angus Taylor
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551119765
Can animals be regarded as part of the moral community? To what extent, if at all, do they have moral rights? Are we wrong to eat them, hunt them, or use them for scientific research? Can animal liberation be squared with the environmental movement? Taylor traces the background of these debates from Aristotle to Darwin and sets out the views of numerous contemporary philosophers—including Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Mary Anne Warren, J. Baird Callicott, and Martha Nussbaum—with ethical theories ranging from utilitarianism to eco-feminism. The new edition also includes provocative quotations from some of the major writers in the field. As the final chapter insists, animal ethics is more than just an “academic” question: it is intimately connected both to our understanding of what it means to be human and to pressing current issues such as food shortages, environmental degradation, and climate change.
Author : Committee on the Use of Animals in Research (U.S.)
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN :
The necessity for animal use in biomedical research is a hotly debated topic in classrooms throughout the country. Frequently teachers and students do not have access to balanced,  factual material to foster an informed discussion on the topic. This colorful, 50-page booklet is designed to educate teenagers about the role of animal research in combating disease, past and present; the perspective of animal use within the whole spectrum of biomedical research; the regulations and oversight that govern animal research; and the continuing efforts to use animals more efficiently and humanely.
Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520054608
THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.
Author : Angus Taylor
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551115696
"A previous edition of this book appeared under the title Magpies, Monkeys, and Morals. The new edition has been updated throughout. Substantial new material has been added to the text, including discussions of virtue ethics and Rawlsian contractarianism. The bibliography has been significantly enlarged and now includes more than five hundred entries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kimberly K. Smith
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199895759
Governing Animals explores the role of the liberal state in protecting animal welfare. Examining liberal concepts such as the social contract, property rights, and representation, Kimberly K. Smith argues that liberalism properly understood can recognize the moral status and social meaning of animals and provides guidance in fashioning animal policy.
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198034733
Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. This book offers a state-of-the-art treatment of that rethinking.
Author : A. Akhtar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0230358527
A compelling argument of how human health is adversely affected by our poor treatment of non-human animals. The author contents that in order to successfully confront the 21st Century's health challenges, we need to broaden the definition of the word 'public' in public health to include non-human animals.
Author : Mary Midgley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0820320412
Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the human community as racism, sexism, and age discrimination. Mary Midgley's profound and clearly written narrative is a thought-provoking study of the way in which the opposition between reason and emotion has shaped our moral and political ideas and the problems it has raised. Whether considering vegetarianism, women's rights, or the "humanity" of pets, this book goes to the heart of the question of why all animals matter.
