Animal Rights: All That Matters

by Mark Rowlands

2021-01-07 20:05:14

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 ... Read more
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 written to the topic, he starts by asking whether there is anything about humans that makes us psychologically or physiologically distinctive - so that there might be a moral justification for treating animals in a different way to how we treat humans. From this foundation, he goes on to explore specific issues of eating animals, experimentation, pets, hunting, zoos, predation and engineering animals. He ends with a challenging argument of how an improved understanding of animal ethics can and should affect readers'' choices. Less

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File size7 X 5.12 X 0.38 in
Print pages160
PublisherMobius
Publication date May 31, 2013
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781444178845
Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He took his doctorate from Oxford University, and has held academic positions in Britain, Ireland and the US. He is well known for ...

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