Is membership of our species important in itself, or is it just important to have the properties that a normal grown-up human being has? A value subjectivist may argue for a special human value...

Discusses the legal framework for environmental law suits, argues that plants, animals, and natural areas should have legal rights, and examines the moral and ethical issues

Immigration and refugee policies have traditionally been based on two assumptions: first, that national sovereignty implies absolute control of a country's borders and, second, that outsiders are to...

Nigel Dower discusses the nature of world ethics by identifying different ways of thinking about ethics and includes a survey of different ways of thinking ethically about international and global...

The title of this volume is the critical and provocative question - do we need minority rights? - in order to announce that it does make sense to ask whether there are special obligations to minority...

Les animaux souffrent comme nous. Comme nous aussi, ils jouissent du bien-être. Mieux que nous parfois, ils s'imposent par la ruse et l'intelligence. Comment continuer à les traiter comme des...

According to the "sanctity-of-life" view, all human lives are equally valuable and inviolable, and it would be wrong to base life-and-death medical decisions on the quality of the patient's life...

Animals' Rights - A

Des milliards d'animaux sont tués chaque année en France, sous le simple prétexte de traditions culinaires. Puisque tous les animaux, y compris les humain-e-s, peuvent souffrir et veulent l'éviter,...

In engaging and accessible language, The Abortion Myth, forges a women-inspired and women-centred abortion ethic: for everyone who is interested in feminism, abortion and ethics.

Public Policy, Philosophy

The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The...

This collection of essays, with an extended commentary by the editor, is concerned with developments in reproductive technology and the possibilities of genetic engineering. The volume provides a...

The Western world is currently gripped by an obsessive concern for the rights of animals - their uses and abuses. In this book, Leahy argues that this is a movement based upon a series of fundamental...

This book, written by leading academics and activists, examines the development of animal rights over the past two decades and asks where the issue goes from here. The contributions cover animal...

Text: German

Menschen sprechen und werfen Bomben, philosophieren und steigen auf Berge. Dieser Band versammelt dreiundzwanzig Versuche, diese Hand-lungen - und das Handeln überhaupt - zu beleuchten. Besonderen...