Difficulties With the Strong Animal Rights Position

Difficulties with the Strong Animal Rights Position

For biographical information on Warren, see her reading in Chapter 2. Warren explains and then attacks Regan's strong animal rights position, the view that nonhuman animals have the same basic moral rights as humans. She makes two criticisms of Regan's position: It rests on an obscure concept of inherent value, and it fails to draw a sharp line between living things which have inherent value an...

Physicians as researchers: difficulties with the "similarity position".

Chiong raises the important question of “what compromises in the care offered patients in a clinical trial can be justified by the potential benefits to third parties” (2006, 37)— a question that cannot even be raised under the equipoise standard. But, he is mistaken, we believe, in assuming that this question must have the same answer for researchers and physicians. That assumption would be wa...

Animal rights protests build

Opposition to animal experiments in Britain appears to be extending beyond the labs to other businesses supplying them. Nigel Williams reports.

The issue of animal rights and human rights.

Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading.

Do non-human animals have rights? The answer to this question depends on whether animals have morally relevant mental properties. Mindreading is the human activity of ascribing mental states to other organisms. Current knowledge about the evolution and cognitive structure of mindreading indicates that human ascriptions of mental states to non-human animals are very inaccurate. The accuracy of h...