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19McCloskey on rational ends: The dilemma of intuitionism (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 9 (1): 48-58. 1975.
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340The rights of humans and other animalsEthics and Behavior 7 (2). 1997.Human moral rights place justified limits on what people are free to do to one another. Animals also have moral rights, and arguments to support the use of animals in scientific research based on the benefits allegedly derived from animal model research are thus invalid. Animals do not belong in laboratories because placing them there, in the hope of benefits for others, violates their rights.
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103Obligations to animals are based on rightsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 8 (2): 171-180. 1995.Some feminist philosophers criticize the idea of human rights because, they allege, it encapsulates male bias; it is therefore misguided, in their view, to extend moral rights to non-human animals. I argue that the feminist criticism is misguided. Ideas are not biased in favour of men simply because they originate with men, nor are ideas themselves biased in favour of men because men have used them prejudicially. As for the position that women should abandon theories of rights and embrace an eth…Read more
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71Fox's critique of animal liberationEthics 88 (2): 126-133. 1978.I contest michael fox's criticisms of my position regarding animal rights and our duties to animals on the grounds that he either misunderstands what my position is or, When it is understood, Raises objections that can be met. I also challenge the adequacy of fox's own account of the criteria of possessing basic moral rights
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
20th Century Philosophy |