Ethics and Animals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. ‘Platonists’ and ‘Aristotelians’

      • Harlan B. Miller

      Pages 1-14

3. Nonhumans in the Eyes and Minds of Humans

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-18

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   2. Animal Rights, Human Wrongs

      • Tom Regan

      Pages 19-43

   3. Animal Rights Revisited

      • Jan Narueson

      Pages 45-59

   4. Knowing Our Place in the Animal World

      • Annette C. Baier

      Pages 61-77

   5. The Clouded Mirror

      • Thomas L. Benson

      Pages 79-90

4. Morality, Legality, and Animals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-93

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   2. Moral Community and Moral Order

      • James M. Buchanan

      Pages 95-102

   3. The Legal and Moral Bases of Animal Rights

      • Bernard E. Rollin

      Pages 103-118

5. Humans and Other Animals—Killing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-122

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   2. Life, Death, and Animals

      • Edward Johnson

      Pages 123-133

   3. Killing Persons and Other Beings

      • Dale Jamieson

      Pages 135-146

   4. Interspecific Justice and Animal Slaughter

      • Donald VanDeVeer

      Pages 147-162

6. Humans and Other Animals—Linkages and Likenesses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-167

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   2. Humans, Animals, and ‘Animal Behavior’

      • Stephen R. L. Clark

      Pages 169-182

   3. Ecology, Morality, and Hunting

      • Peter S. Wenz

      Pages 183-197

   4. Humans as Hunting Animals

      • Patrick F. Scanlon

      Pages 199-205

   5. Apes and Language Research

      • Duane M. Rumbaugh, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

      Pages 207-217

7. Human Interests, Porcine Interests, and Chipmunk Interests

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-223

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This volume is a collection of essays concerned with the morality of hu­ man treatment of nonhuman animals. The contributors take very different approaches to their topics and come to widely divergent conclusions. The goal of the volume as a whole is to shed a brighter light upon an aspect of human life-our relations with the other animals-that has recently seen a great increase in interest and in the generation of heat. The discussions and debates contained herein are addressed by the contributors to each other, to the general public, and to the academic world, especially the biological, philosophical, and political parts of that world. The essays are organized into eight sections by topics, each sec­ tion beginning with a brief introduction linking the papers and the sec­ tions to one another. There is also a general introduction and an Epilog that suggests alternate possible ways of organizing the material. The first two sections are concerned with the place of animals in the human world: Section I with the ways humans view animals in literature, philosophy, and other parts of human culture, and Section II with the place of animals in human legal and moral community. The next three sections concern comparisons between human and nonhuman animals: Section III on the rights and wrongs of killing, Section IV on the humanity of animals and the animality of humans, and Section V on questions of the conflict of human and animal interests.

• Animal Liberation
• ethics
• language
• morality
• philosophy
• research
• treatment

• Department of Philosophy and Religion, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

  Harlan B. Miller

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