Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction

This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models
for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights distinguishes itself by combining intellectual rigor with
accessibility, offering a distinct moral voice with a non-polemical tone.


Author: David DeGrazia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/16/2002
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.02h x 4.50w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9780192853608
ISBN10: 0192853600
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | General
- Science | Life Sciences | Zoology | General
- Nature | Animal Rights

About the Author

David DeGrazia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. 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.