Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.
Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago
Essays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassess the question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effective advocacy
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Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the ani...
In this timely collection, some of the world's leading ethicists grapple with the variety of issues posed by human embryonic stem cell research.
Investigates the moral status of the embryo including the creation of chimeras and paying for gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos for research purposes
Provides a thorough evaluation of the ethics and politics of regulating hESC research, and the privacy, confidentiality, and informed consent in the conduct of research and clinical investigations
Essential reading for...
In this timely collection, some of the world's leading ethicists grapple with the variety of issues posed by human embryonic stem cell research.
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was raised humanely.
The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful, humane food choices. As they point out: You can be...
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coaut...
A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his nose and into his stomach. On 4 February 1993 Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him could lawfully act to end his life. Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with...
A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his...
Explores our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. This book follows three families with varying eating habits, from fast-food eaters to vegans, to explore how the food we eat makes its way to the table, and at what expense. It als
Explores our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. This book follows three families with varying eating habits, from fast-foo...
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them.
In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures--destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue....
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic d...
Peter Singers "Praktische Ethik", 1979 in erster Auflage erschienen, ist in seiner ebenso präzisen wie nachvollziehbaren Argumentationsstruktur ein Musterbeispiel für klares, philosophisches Denken. Besonders wichtig ist der von Singer eingeführte Begriff des Speziesismus (Menschen denken über Tiere anders, weil Tiere keine Menschen sind, obwohl es sachlich begründete Argumente gibt, genau dies nicht zu tun). Für Kontroversen sorgten seine Theorien über Sterbehilfe und Euthanasie. Für diese dritte Auflage hat der Autor den Band komplett durchgesehen und um ein neues Kapitel über den...
Peter Singers "Praktische Ethik", 1979 in erster Auflage erschienen, ist in seiner ebenso präzisen wie nachvollziehbaren Argumentationsstruktur ein M...
One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in. Every issue is considered from an ethical perspective. This thoughtful and important study poses bold challenges to narrow...
One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, O...
In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published -Famine, Affluence and Morality, - which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those close to us. He argued that choosing not to send life-saving money to starving people on the other side of the earth is the moral equivalent of neglecting to save drowning children because we prefer not to muddy our shoes. If we can help, we must--and any excuse is hypocrisy. Singer's extreme stand on our...
In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published -Famine, Affluence and Morality, - which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays ...
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives or dies? Is a longer life better for an animal than a shorter life? If so, under what conditions is this so, and why is this the case? Is it better for an animal to live rather than never to be born at all? The Ethics of Killing Animals addresses these value-theoretical questions about...
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems ...
