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Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals is a 1975 book by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer.It is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas.
Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) ... Animal Rights and Human Obligations: An Anthology (co-editor with Tom Regan), Prentice-Hall, ...
In Defence of Animals: The Second Wave is a 2005 book edited by the philosopher Peter Singer. It contains chapters by Gaverick Matheny, Richard Ryder , Paola Cavalieri , Paul Waldau and others. The authors makes several arguments why harming animals is bad.
Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit debated the issue of animal rights in 2001 with Peter Singer. [73] Posner posits that his moral intuition tells him "that human beings prefer their own. If a dog threatens a human infant, even if it requires causing more pain to the dog to stop it, than the dog ...
Singer argued for animal liberation on the basis of utilitarianism, first in 1973 in The New York Review of Books and later in his Animal Liberation (1975), while Regan developed a deontological theory of animal rights in several papers from 1975 onwards, followed by The Case for Animal Rights (1983). [2]
In recent years, versions of the argument have been put forward by Peter Singer, [9] Tom Regan, [10] Evelyn Pluhar, [11] and Oscar Horta. [5] James Rachels has argued that the theory of evolution implies that there is only a gradient between humans and other animals, and therefore marginal-case humans should be considered similar to non-human ...
The Case for Animal Rights. University of California Press, 1983. 2004 edition (updated with a new preface) Regan, Tom. "The Case for Animal Rights", in Tom Regan and Peter Singer (eds.). Animal Rights and Human Obligations. Prentice Hall, 1976. Rowlands, Mark. Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice. Palgrave MacMillan, 1998.
It is also credited as internationally popularising the term "rights-holders" to describe animals. [1] A special issue dedicated to the Great Ape Project, was published in 1996; [5] Peter Singer served as special co-editor. [6]