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Animal Ethics Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415775396

ISBN-13: 9780415775397

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Susan Armstrong, Richard G. Botzler, Susan J. Armstrong, Richard George Botzler

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List price: $51.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 680
Size: 6.93" wide x 9.72" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Richard G. Botzler is Professor Emeritus at Humboldt State University and coauthor of "Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence" (2003). He taught the two courses that inspired this book: Principles of Wildlife Diseases and Advanced Topics in Wildlife Diseases. Richard N. Brown is Professor of Wildlife at Humboldt State University, where he teaches courses on wildlife diseases.

Theories of Animal Ethics
Introduction
The Case for Animal Rights
Reply to Tom Regan
Are Human Rights Human?
Practical Ethics
Feminism and the Treatment of Animals: From Care to Dialogue
Rights, Interests, Desires and Beliefs
Animals and the Harm of Death
Further Reading
Study Questions
Animal Capacities: Pain, Emotion, Consciousness
Introduction
Issues/ Methods of Study
Consciousness, Emotion and Animal Welfare: Insights from Cognitive Science
Reflections
Anthropomorphism and Cross-Species Modeling
Consciousness, Emotion, and Suffering
A neuropsychological and evolutionary approach to animal consciousness and animal suffering
Animal Consciousnes: What Matters and Why
Animal Minds and Animal Emotions
New Evidence of Animal Consciousness
Animal Pain
How Facts Matter
Further Reading
Study Questions
Primates and Cetaceans
Introduction
Primates
Deep Ethology, Animal Rights, and The Great Ape/Animal Project: Resisting Speciesism and Expanding the Community of Equals
Ape Consciousness Human Consciousness: A Perspective Informed by Language and Culture
Cultures in Chimpanzees
Are Apes Persons? The Case for Primate Intersubjectivity
Problems Faced by Wild and Captive Chimpanzees: Finding Solutions
Cetaceans
Culture and Conservation of Non-Humans with Reference to Whales and Dolphins
Into the Brains of Whales
Whales as Persons
Further Reading
Study Questions
Animals for Food
Introduction
Animals for Food
Meat-Eating
Thinking like Animals
A Major Change
Food Prices and Animal Welfare
Animal Agriculture Alliance, Animal Agriculture: Myths and Facts
The Least Harm Principle May Require that Humans Consume a Diet Containing Large Herbivores, not a Vegan Diet
The Ethical Imperative to Control Pain and Suffering in Farm Animals
The Basic Argument for Vegetarianism
The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women
A Paradox of Ethic Vegetarianism: Unfairness to Women and Children
Religious Perspectives
Judaism
Enhancing the Divine Image
The Bible and Killing for Food
Islam
Further Reading
Study Questions
Animal Experimentation
Introduction
Laboratory Studies