Animal Rights

A fresh view of animals and what we owe them.


Do animals have moral standing? Do they count, morally speaking? In
Each of these waves had ramifications for how we understand the moral status of animals, but, this book argues, and reinforces, the core idea that animals deserve moral respect. In earlier waves, discussions of animal ethics had been focused on the issue of animal suffering. But the third wave is defined by the idea that animals are far more than merely sufferers or enjoyers of experiences but are instead authors of their own lives: creatures capable of choosing how to live, shaped by a conception of their life and how they would like it to go. Rowlands writes that, no matter what moral theory you choose, the most plausible version of that theory entails that animals have moral standing and that our obligations to them are far more substantial than many of us care to acknowledge.

List of contents

Contents
1. Animals Ethics: The Three Waves
2. The First Wave: The Only Game in Town?
First Interlude: The Livestock Industry
3. The Second Wave: Expanding the Ethical
Second Interlude: Research on Animals
4. The Third Wave: Expanding the Animal
Third Interlude: Ontological Crimes

About the author

Mark Rowlands is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of more than twenty books translated into more than twenty languages. His memoir The Philosopher and the Wolf became an international best seller.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Rowlands, Mark J Rowlands, Mark J. Rowlands, Rowlands Mark
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9780262549400
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54940-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 15 mm
• Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Nature; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Animal Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Society & culture: general, Animals and society