Animal rights : current debates and new directions.
Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate con...
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What are animal rights? / Cass R. Sunstein
- Part I: Current debates. Animal rights, one step at a time / Steven M. Wise ; Animal rights : legal, philosophical, and pragmatic perspectives / Richard A. Posner ; Ethics beyond species and beyond instincts : a response to Richard Posner / Peter Singer ; Eating meat and eating people / Cora Diamond ; Animals : property or persons? / Gary L. Francione ; Animals as objects, or subjects, of rights / Richard A. Epstein ; Drawing lines / James Rachels ; All animals are not equal : the interface between scientific knowledge and legislation for animal rights / Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan
- Part II: New directions. Foxes in the hen house : animals, agribusiness, and the law : a modern American fable / David J. Wolfson and Mariann Sullivan ; A new property status for animals : equitable self-ownership / David Favre ; Can animals sue? / Cass R. Sunstein ; Of mice and men : a feminist fragment on animal rights / Catharine A. MacKinnon ; Animal rights and the values of nonhuman life / Elizabeth Anderson ; Beyond "compassion and humanity" : justice for nonhuman animals / Martha C. Nussbaum.