Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here. Thanks a lot!

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 20, 2008

In 1792, Englishman Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), a prominent translator of Plato and other Greek philosophers, published a satirical pamphlet entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes. If women have rights, then animals have rights. Animals do not have rights. Animals do not have rights.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

I don't expect that many readers will be converted to the cause of animal rights by reading this book. I hope that this book will help this cause along. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], xvii-xviii)

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2007

Here is a website that contains much useful information about animal ethics. It appears to be organized around Regan's book Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights. I'm not sure what relation it bears to Tom Regan, the philosopher from North Carolina State University.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 25, 2016

Mylan Engel Jr and Kathie Jenni, The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Brief Introduction for Students and Teachers [New York: Lantern Books, 2010], 7 [italics in original]) Note from KBJ: I reject this conception of philosophy.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

My original interest was narrow: animal rights. The book that started everything was Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men [(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978); I finished reading this book on 28 December 1980]. As I explained to Clark, I came at philosophy in an odd way.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.)

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

Indeed, the endowment now allegedly extends even to communication with animals by telepathy. The animal psychologist Beatrice Lydecker claims in her book What the Animals Tell Me that one can, even though cats and dogs lack language, nevertheless communicate with and in this sense 'talk' to one's pet by means of something akin to ESP.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. But if Lappé is correct in the major arguments in her book, such a first step is not really necessary. But in the end she still advocates a meatless diet.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

As much as these individuals would like to do the right thing and stop supporting factory farms with their purchases, they think the sacrifice is just too great. Their latest effort is their co-authored book The Vegan Joy of Cooking, due out this fall. This reaction is due largely to a lack of imagination.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Consumers are right to be wary; rBGH threatens to undermine the safety of nature’s most perfect food. June 29, 2007 The writer, a law professor, collaborated with Dr. Miller on a published article in Nature Biotechnology and on a book chapter several years before the published article in Nature Biotechnology. Kershen Norman, Okla.,

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