The Animal Rights Debate
Published on 26. June 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8476-9663-5 (ISBN)
Description
Do 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.
Reviews / Votes
A fascinating treatise . . . [that] appeals primarily to students and animal rights proponents. * Publishers Weekly * The volume should be in the library of any school where philosophy is taught or animal research conducted, that is, in nearly every academic library. * Choice Reviews * Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text isrequired reading for everyone interested in this critical issue.... -- Gary Comstock, Iowa State University The book would make an ideal main text in a seminar on animals, ethics, and science for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in philosophy, biological sciences, experimental psychology, or the health-professions, including veterinary sciences. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association * The book is enormously entertaining, and both writers succeed in making it clear and simple. * Radical Philosophy * A tour de force of brilliant debate. No other 'seeing the issues from both sides' book comes close to this one in the sustained power of argumentation and in its thorough canvassing of the issues surrounding everything that might be said about the ethical treatment of animals. Quite simply, the best book of its kind. -- Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text is required reading for everyone interested in thiscritical issue. -- Gary Comstock, Iowa State University The two [Cohen and Regan] argue vigorously and write clearly, producing an engaging, accessible book. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9663-5 (9780847696635)
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Persons
Carl Cohen is professor of philosophy at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tom Regan is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Content
Part 1 In Defense of the Use of Animals
Chapter 2 The Moral Problem of Animal Use
Chapter 3 The Factual Setting of Animal Experimentation
Chapter 4 Rights and Interests
Chapter 5 If Animals Had Rights
Chapter 6 Why Animals Do Not Have Rights
Chapter 7 Why Animals Are Mistakenly Believed to Have Rights
Chapter 8 The Moral Inequality of Species: Why Speciesism Is Right
Chapter 9 Spurious Scientific Arguments against the Use of Animals
Chapter 10 What Good Does Animal Experimentation Do?
Chapter 11 The Proven Accomplishments of Animal Research
Part 12 The Case for Animal Rights
Chapter 13 From Indifference to Advocacy
Chapter 14 Animal Exploitation
Chapter 15 The Nature and Importance of Rights
Chapter 16 Indirect Duty Views
Chapter 17 Direct Duty Views
Chapter 18 Human Rights
Chapter 19 Animal Rights
Chapter 20 Reply to Tom Regan
Chapter 21 Reply to Carl Cohen
Chapter 2 The Moral Problem of Animal Use
Chapter 3 The Factual Setting of Animal Experimentation
Chapter 4 Rights and Interests
Chapter 5 If Animals Had Rights
Chapter 6 Why Animals Do Not Have Rights
Chapter 7 Why Animals Are Mistakenly Believed to Have Rights
Chapter 8 The Moral Inequality of Species: Why Speciesism Is Right
Chapter 9 Spurious Scientific Arguments against the Use of Animals
Chapter 10 What Good Does Animal Experimentation Do?
Chapter 11 The Proven Accomplishments of Animal Research
Part 12 The Case for Animal Rights
Chapter 13 From Indifference to Advocacy
Chapter 14 Animal Exploitation
Chapter 15 The Nature and Importance of Rights
Chapter 16 Indirect Duty Views
Chapter 17 Direct Duty Views
Chapter 18 Human Rights
Chapter 19 Animal Rights
Chapter 20 Reply to Tom Regan
Chapter 21 Reply to Carl Cohen