David DeGrazia (Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Washi

Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Do animals have moral rights? If so what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand their welfare? After addressing these questions, DeGrazia explores their implications in contexts such as food consumption, zoos, and research.

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Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 114mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9780192853608
• ISBN-10: 0192853600
• Artikelnr.: 21401528

Autorenporträt

David DeGrazia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (1996) and of numerous articles in philosophy and ethics journals He is also co-editor, with Thomas Mappes, of Biomedical Ethics (2001). Currently he is researching various topics at the intersection of personal identity theory and bioethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction to the Issues
2: The Moral Status of Animals
3: What Animals are Like
4: The Harms of Suffering, Confinement, and Death
5: Meat-Eating
6: Keeping Pets and Zoo Animals
7: Animal Research
8: Epilogue