1. Animal Liberation at 30, by Peter Singer
to killing
animals, we inflict suffering on them, in a wide variety of ways.
So the defenders of common practices involving animals owe us an
explanation for their willingness to make animals suffer
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2. The Post-Darwinian Transition, by David Pearce
Ethics and
Animals : Oxford, Clarendon 1990); and, rather incongruously,
philosopher Peter Carruthers' The Animals Issue . Carruthers
advances the thesis that the mental states of Animals are all
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3. The Forgotten Animal Issue, by Peter Singer
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The purpose of the meeting was to ask McDonald's to investigate the effect of factory farming on the Animals whose meat and eggs they used, and then to use these findings to develop less stressful ways of
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4. The Concept of Beastliness: Philosophy, Ethics and Animal Behavior, by Mary ...
and comparisons between animals and men
have become immensely popular. People use evidence from animals to
decide whether man is naturally aggressive, or naturally
territorial; even whether he has
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5. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
races, women, children and animals. Western
philosophy continued this imperious attitude with the views of
Descartes, who proposed that animals were just like machines with
no significant language,
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6. Chimpanzees’ Use of Sign Language, by Roger S. Fouts & Deborah H. Fouts
have not bothered to ask the animals what they are, but instead
we tend to define them as not human. If humans have thought,
animals don't; if humans have an imagination, animals have none;
and so on.
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7. Contextual Moral Vegetarianism, by Deane Curtin
of nonhuman
animals. Typical of the wealth of evidence she presents are the
following: the connection of women and animals through
pornographic representations of women as "meat" ready to be
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8. Persons and Non-Persons, by Mary Midgley
certainly implies -that animals
are things. He does say in his lecture on 'Duties Towards animals
and Spirits' that they 'are not self-conscious and are there
merely as a means to an end', that end
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9. Ambiguous Apes, by Raymond Corbey
from eating animals who are close to us, such as dogs and other
companion animals, while some other animals are killed for
pleasure. Apart from carrying the usual animal connotations, many
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10. Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood, by Robert W. Mitchell
that some
animals can satisfy criteria for verbal communication, we can now
look for evidence of self-consciousness in these animals, with its
attendant sense of moral responsibility.
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