What Are Animal Rights For?
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2023
160 pages
978-1-5292-2842-7 (ISBN)
Description
How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering?
The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we share the planet. These questions are becoming more pressing as livestock farming exerts an ever-greater toll on the planet and the animals themselves, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows why animals ought to have greater rights and what the world might look like if they did.
The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans treat the other animals with which we share the planet. These questions are becoming more pressing as livestock farming exerts an ever-greater toll on the planet and the animals themselves, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows why animals ought to have greater rights and what the world might look like if they did.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
3,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-2842-7 (9781529228427)
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Steve Cooke
What Are Animal Rights For?
Book
10/2023
1st Edition
Bristol University Press
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Person
Steve Cooke is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leicester. Previously, he held positions on animal rights theory and environmental politics at the University of Sheffield and Keele University and was the Society for Applied Philosophy's 30th Anniversary Postdoctoral Fellow for a project on animal rights and environmental terrorism.
Content
1. Introduction
2. A Brief Intellectual History of Animal Rights
3. Rights, Interests and Choices
4. Case Studies: Animals in the Farm, Home, Zoo and Lab
5. Emerging issues: From Mollusc Rights to Animal Citizens
6. Engaging the Imagination: Turning Prejudice into Compassion
7. Conclusion: Beyond Animal Rights?
2. A Brief Intellectual History of Animal Rights
3. Rights, Interests and Choices
4. Case Studies: Animals in the Farm, Home, Zoo and Lab
5. Emerging issues: From Mollusc Rights to Animal Citizens
6. Engaging the Imagination: Turning Prejudice into Compassion
7. Conclusion: Beyond Animal Rights?
