Animals Rights category: 355 books
by Mark Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic that's always in the news. Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, is the world's best known philosopher of animal rights. In this, the first introduction he has...
For the Prevention of Cruelty
The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Animal rights. Those two words conjure diverse but powerful images and reactions. Some nod in agreement, while others roll their eyes in contempt. Most people fall somewhat uncomfortably in the middle, between endorsement and rejection, as they struggle with the profound moral, philosophical, and...
The Animal Rights Debate
Abolition or Regulation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for using nonhumans and argues that because animals...
On God and Dogs
A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1998
Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives...
The Rights of Nature
A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense...
Animal Rights
Current Debates and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
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...
Animals as Persons
Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionist...
Beyond Prejudice
The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1995
In Beyond Prejudice, Evelyn B. Pluhar defends the view that any sentient conative being—one capable of caring about what happens to him or herself—is morally significant, a view that supports the moral status and rights of many nonhuman animals. Confronting traditional and contemporary philosophical...
Mercy For Animals
One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A compelling look at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from Mercy For Animals, the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.
Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his...
All children of Mother Earth
Ecospirituality in the relationship with animals
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Ecospirituality is a natural philosophy that leads to a reassessment of the relationship the individual person has with the environment, where all living creatures, as well as the planet itself, acquire a value and dignity equivalent to that of humans. The individual is therefore not seen as an unchallenged...
Loving Animals
Toward a New Animal Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The contemporary animal rights movement encompasses a wide range of sometimes-competing agendas from vegetarianism to animal liberation. For people for whom pets are family members—animal lovers outside the fray—extremist positions in which all human–animal interaction is suspect often discourage...
Farm Sanctuary
Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry.
Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily...
Animals and the Moral Community
Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc Hauser, Daniel Dennett, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg...