Framing the Animal Rights Issue

The issue of animal rights and human rights.

Issue Framing as a Generalizable Phenomenon

Framing—portraying an issue from one perspective to the necessary exclusion of alternative perspectives—is a central concept in political communication. It is also a powerful political tool, as evidenced through experiments and single-issue studies beyond the lab. Yet compared to its significance, we know very little about framing as a generalizable phenomenon. Do framing dynamics, such as the ...

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.

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...

The Philosophy behind the Movement: Animal Studies versus Animal Rights

Recently, many pro-animal thinkers have expressed critical views on the animal rights movement. In particular, the movement has been criticized for being philosophically uninformed, politically regressive, and practically unpersuasive. This paper investigates these criticisms and seeks to map out the philosophy behind the grassroots animal rights movement, specifically. It concludes that the cr...