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Tag Archives: Animal Rights
Animals and Vivisection
Tom Regan and Nicolaas Rupke discuss the ethics and politics of animal vivisection. Professor Regan is the author of The Case for Animal Rights (the University of California Press). Dr. Rupke is the editor of Vivisection in Historical Perspective (Croom Helm).
Skepticism, Morality, and Rights
In historical and contemporary terms, David Copp discusses the relationship between skepticism and morality. Andrea Linzey talks about Christian theology and the animal rights movement.
Philosophy and Public Policy
Does philosophy affect public policy? What contributions does philosophy make to the ways in which Americans think and act about issues such as civil rights, the conduct of American foreign policy, the treatment of animals, and our notions of equality and fairness at home and overseas?
The Case of Animal Rights
Do animals have rights? To what extent do animals participate in the human moral community? How should humankind view its ethical relationship to animals? Those questions are central to Tom Regan‘s book, The Case for Animal Rights, published in 1983 by the University of California Press and nominated that year for a Pulitzer Prize.
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