Animals and their moral standing

Stephen R.L. Clark

Psychology Press, 1997 - Philosophy - 194 pages

Stephen R. L. Clark is an international authority on animal rights. His major writings over twenty years are now brought together for the first time in one volume as a record of his pioneering work. Over the last decade or more, animal rights has become an issue of genuine and outspoken public concern, following the work of philosophers, scientists and welfarists who have raised awareness of the issue. Renowned for The Moral Status of Animals and The Nature of the Beast, Clark's writings have been central to this debate; this collection traces the development of 'animal rights'. Animals and their Moral Standing tackles issues such as the calculation of costs and benefits; the 'rights' of wild animals, and of ecosystems; problems with our understanding of animal behaviour, and the faults of specisism.

Contents

• THE RIGHTS OF WILD THINGS 1979: 16
• AWARENESS AND SELFAWARENESS 1981: 31
• HUME ANIMALS AND THE OBJECTIVITY: 55
• ANIMALS ECOSYSTEMS AND THE LIBERAL: 70
• THE DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION: 87
• ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN ANIMAL: 112
• THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANIMALS 1991: 139
• MODERN ERRORS ANCIENT VIRTUES 1994: 154

About the author

Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Animals and their moral standing
• Author: Stephen R.L. Clark
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0415135591, 9780415135597
• Length: 194 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animal Rights; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern