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Earthbound: New Introductory Essays in Environmental EthicsThe Personalist Forum 2 (1): 71-73. 1986.
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491The Nature and Possibility of an Environmental EthicEnvironmental Ethics 3 (1): 19-34. 1981.A conception of an environmental ethic is set forth which involves postulating that nonconscious natural objects can have value in their own right, independently of human interests. Two kinds of objection are considered: (1) those that deny the possibility (the intelligibility) of developing an ethic ofthe environment that accepts this postulate, and (2) those.that deny the necessity of constructing such an ethic. Both types of objection are found wanting. The essay condudes with some tentative …Read more
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123On the Right not to be Made to Suffer GratuitouslyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (3): 473-478. 1980.Donald VanDeVeer has again forwarded the debate over the morality of our treatment of animals, this time by focusing attention on certain arguments used in defense of vegetarianism. Since I am identified as the principal, though not alway the sole perpetrator of these arguments I would like to respond to VanDeVeer's most important remarks. For while I readily concede that there is at least much that is incomplete in my arguments for vegetarianism and for the more humane treatment of animals gene…Read more
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46Des droits légaux des animaux, le jour viendra peut-être?Archives de Philosophie du Droit 55 231-246. 2012.Cet article examine les principaux arguments visant à nier que les animaux non humains aient des droits moraux, en particulier le droit de vivre et le droit à l’intégrité corporelle. Parce que ces arguments sont déficients, nous ne devrions pas refuser aux animaux des droits légaux sur la base de leur présumée infériorité morale aux êtres humains
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42The Thee Generation: Reflections on the Coming Revolution (edited book)Temple University Press. 1991.Addresses such topics as child pornography, feminism, deep ecology, vivisection, Christian theology and career choice.
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25Earthbound: New Introductory Essays in Environmental Ethics (edited book)Temple University Press. 1984.Book by.
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60Defending Animal RightsUniversity of Illinois Press. 2001.He puts the issue of animal rights in historical context, drawing parallels between animal rights activism and other social movements, including the anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century and the gay-lesbian struggle today. He also outlines the challenges to animal rights posed by deep ecology and ecofeminism to using animals for human purposes and addresses the ethical dilemma of the animal rights advocate whose employer uses animals for research."--BOOK JACKET.
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79Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal RightsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.Described by Jeffrey Masson as 'the single best introduction to animal rights ever written,' this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of 'humane treatment' favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty
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4The case against animal researchContemporary Issues in Bioethics. Belmont, California: Wadsworth. forthcoming.
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27Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal LifeState University of New York Press. 1999.Explores questions concerning animals from a continental perspective
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351The Animal Rights Debate (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2001.Here, for the first time, the world's two leading authorities—Tom Regan, who argues for animal rights, and Carl Cohen, who argues against them—make their respective case before the public at large. The very terms of the debate will never be the same. This seminal moment in the history of the controversy over animal rights will influence the direction of this debate throughout the rest of the century.
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112Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Regan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about other animals can lead to a better understanding of ourselves
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2Treatment of animalsIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 42--46. 1992.
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2Laboratory studiesIn Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler (eds.), The animal ethics reader, Routledge. pp. 303. 2008.
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133Matters of life and death (edited book)Temple University Press. 1980.Essays raise and discuss moral questions concerning euthanasia, suicide, war, capital punishment, abortion, famine relief, and the environment.
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2On the ethics of the use of animals in scienceIn Tom Regan & Donald VanDeVeer (eds.), And justice for all: new introductory essays in ethics and public policy, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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43And justice for all: new introductory essays in ethics and public policy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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Areas of Interest
| Normative Ethics |
| 20th Century Philosophy |