Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence

Review
Rowlands has provided a thoroughly analyzed and clearly written defense of the view that animals should be seen as possessing rights. Choice


Book Description
The question of the nature and extent of our moral obligations to non-human animals has featured prominently in recent moral debate. This book defends the novel position that a contradictarian moral theory can be used to justify the claim that animals possess a substantial and wide-ranging set of moral rights. Critiquing the rival accounts of Peter Singer and Tom Regan, this study shows how an influential form of the social contract idea can be extended to make sense of the concept of animal rights.


About the Author
Mark Rowlands is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College in Cork, Ireland.



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Defends the novel position that certain ideas deriving from the social contract tradition in philosophy--the tradition which sees moral rights as deriving from implicit agreements between individuals--can be used to justify the claim that our obligations to non-human animals are more substantial than we commonly think. Argues that at least some kinds of non-human animals are bearers of moral rights, and critiques accounts of writers such as Peter Singer and Tom Regan. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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