Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-9663-5 • Paperback • June 2001 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
Carl Cohen is professor of philosophy at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tom Regan is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Part 1 In Defense of the Use of Animals
Chapter 2 The Moral Problem of Animal Use
Chapter 3 The Factual Setting of Animal Experimentation
Chapter 4 Rights and Interests
Chapter 5 If Animals Had Rights
Chapter 6 Why Animals Do Not Have Rights
Chapter 7 Why Animals Are Mistakenly Believed to Have Rights
Chapter 8 The Moral Inequality of Species: Why Speciesism Is Right
Chapter 9 Spurious Scientific Arguments against the Use of Animals
Chapter 10 What Good Does Animal Experimentation Do?
Chapter 11 The Proven Accomplishments of Animal Research
Part 12 The Case for Animal Rights
Chapter 13 From Indifference to Advocacy
Chapter 14 Animal Exploitation
Chapter 15 The Nature and Importance of Rights
Chapter 16 Indirect Duty Views
Chapter 17 Direct Duty Views
Chapter 18 Human Rights
Chapter 19 Animal Rights
Chapter 20 Reply to Tom Regan
Chapter 21 Reply to Carl Cohen
A fascinating treatise . . . [that] appeals primarily to students and animal rights proponents.
— Publishers Weekly
The volume should be in the library of any school where philosophy is taught or animal research conducted, that is, in nearly every academic library.
— Choice Reviews
Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text isrequired reading for everyone interested in this critical issue....
— Gary Comstock, North Carolina State University
The book would make an ideal main text in a seminar on animals, ethics, and science for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in philosophy, biological sciences, experimental psychology, or the health-professions, including veterinary sciences.
— Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
The book is enormously entertaining, and both writers succeed in making it clear and simple.
— Radical Philosophy
A tour de force of brilliant debate. No other 'seeing the issues from both sides' book comes close to this one in the sustained power of argumentation and in its thorough canvassing of the issues surrounding everything that might be said about the ethical treatment of animals. Quite simply, the best book of its kind.
— Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University
Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text is required reading for everyone interested in thiscritical issue.
— Gary Comstock, North Carolina State University
The two [Cohen and Regan] argue vigorously and write clearly, producing an engaging, accessible book.
— Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Both contributors are given ample opportunity to make their case, for and against, animal rights. And both also are given ample opportunity to challenge each other's position.