21. Spirits Dressed in Furs?, by Adriaan Kortlandt
In this book he rejected Descartes' concept of animal-machine and
argued (translated into modern terminology): (1) animals have
sense organs similar to ours which conduct stimuli to the brain;
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22. Persons and Non-Persons, by Mary Midgley
from Susan Moller Okin's book Women in
Western Political Thought:
One case, brought before
the US Supreme Court in the 1890s, concerned Virginia's exclusion
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23. Do Animals Feel Pain?, by Peter Singer
2nd edition, New York: Avon Books, 1990, pp. 10-12, 14-15
Acrobat version
Do animals
other than humans feel pain? How do we know? Well, how do we know
if anyone, human or
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24. The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals, by Marian Stamp Dawkins
it is suffering. All guidebooks and
codes on animal care agree on how important it is to see that an
animal is kept healthy and to treat any signs of injury or disease
at once. For many species the
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25. Personhood, Property and Legal Competence, by Gary L. Francione
I am currently at work on a book in which I explore more fully
the difficulties presented when animals are treated as
property.
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26. Chimpanzees’ Use of Sign Language, by Roger S. Fouts & Deborah H. Fouts
Summa contra Gentiles, Book III, Part II, ch.
CXII; R. Descartes, The Philosophical Works of Descartes,
translated by E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross (Dover, New
York, 1955); relevant
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27. Apes and the Idea of Kindred, by Stephen R. L. Clark
Monboddo, Origin, book ii, ch. 5, cited in Peacock,
Melincourt, ch. 6.
[4]
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28. Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals, by Charles Darwin
took out a letter or book and read it aloud to him; and his rage
was so violent that, as I witnessed on one occasion, he bit his
own leg till the blood flowed. Dogs show what may be fairly called
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29. Ambiguous Apes, by Raymond Corbey
down in one of his notebooks:
'Our grandfather is the devil under form of baboon!' We can
understand what he meant only if we realise that most of the
various cultural roles apes and monkeys have
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30. Diet and Diet Reform, by Mohandas Gandhi
Salt. It was Mr. Salt's book, A Plea for
Vegetarianism, which showed me why, apart from a hereditary
habit, and apart from my adherence to a vow administered to me by
my mother, it was right to be
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