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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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | Jul 03 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 336 |
| ISBN | 9780742599369 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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