Animals
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9 |
"All
Animals Are Equal"
Peter
Singer |
click on an author's name
to go to her/his web page (if available) |
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10 |
"The
Moral Community"
Michael
Allen Fox |
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11 |
"Moral
Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism" R.G.
Frey |
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12 |
"The
Case for Animal Rights" Tom Regan |
Web Resources
Animal intelligence, experience, and emotion
- Allen, Colin.
"Animal
Cognition and Animal Minds." In P. Machamer & M. Carrier (eds)
(1997), Philosophy and the Sciences of the Mind: Pittsburgh-Konstanz
Series in the Philosophy and History of Science vol. 4. Pittsburgh
University Press.
- Browne, Derek.
"Carruthers
on the Deficits of Animals". Psyche. A lengthy review of
Peter Carruther's The Animals Question, Cambridge University Press
(1992). Click
here
for a brief abstract of Carruther's book.
- Charlton, Bruce.
"Evolution
and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Awareness, Consciousness, and
Language." Charlton is a psychologist at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
- Cognitions of animals. A collection of
essays
on animal emotion and cognition from Tufts University. Nice array of essays by some influential folks.
- Fellows, Roger.
"Animal
Belief." Paeida Project Online.
- Scientific American debate on "Can Animals
Empathize?"
Con
by Daniel J. Povinelli.
Pro
by George Gallup, Jr. [available only as a Microsoft Word document]
Other Philosophical Essays
-
Center on Animal
Liberation Affairs. Essays and information on Animal Liberation, run
by philosopher
Stephen Best.
- Holton, Richard and Rae Langton.
"Empathy
and Animal Ethics." In Dale Jamieson (ed.) Singer and His
Critics Blackwell (1998). [pdf]
- LaFollette, Hugh.
"Animal
Rights and Human Wrongs," N. Dower (ed.), Ethics and the
Environment. Gower Press (1989). [pdf]
- LaFollette, Hugh and Shanks, Niall.
"On
the Origin of Speciesism." Philosophy (1996). [pdf]
- LaFollette, Hugh and Shanks, Niall.
"Util-izing
Animals." Journal of Applied Philosophy (1995).
[pdf]
- Philosophical
essays on animal rights.
Nice collections of original essays by some of the leaders of the movement,
including Peter Singer, Tom Regan. Nice resource.
- "Vegetarianism and
the 'Other Weight Problem.'" James Rachels. [pdf]
- Varner, Gary.
"Animal
Rights v. Animal Welfare." Varner, of Texas A&M, offers
this on-line lecture explaining the debate between those who advocate animal
rights and those who think we should only be concerned to protect their
welfare.
Popular discussions of the treatment of animals