The Case for Animal Rights
Tom Regan
When The Case for Animal Rights was published in 1983 it rapidly became an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author, Tom Regan (1938–2017), was recognized as an intellectual leader within the animal rights movement. Twenty years later, Case was reissued with a new and fully considered preface, in which Regan responded to his critics and defended the book's revolutionary position. Now, forty years after its original publication, this foundational text is available as an audiobook. In addition to the complete text of the revised 2002 edition, the audiobook includes a recording made by Tom Regan in 2001, in which he reflects on why he wrote The Case for Animal Rights, how it compares with Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, and how his thinking evolved as he was writing the book. The audiobook also features an essay by philosopher Gary Comstock on Tom Regan's contribution to, and place within, the history of thinking about our obligations to nonhuman animals over the last half-century.
The audiobook of The Case for Animal Rights is a production of the Culture & Animals Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Tom Regan in 1985. Both the book and the e-book of Case are available from the University of California Press.
"Unquestionably the best work yet to appear in its field, surpassing even Peter Singer's famous Animal Liberation in originality, thoroughness, and rigor."—Choice
"The Case for Animal Rights is beyond question the most important philosophical contribution to animal rights and is a major work in moral philosophy."—Animal Law Review
Duration - 4h 58m.
Author - Tom Regan.
Narrator - Jennifer Pickens.
Published Date - Monday, 02 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2004 Regents of the University of California ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Tom Regan
Jennifer Pickens
University of California Press / Culture & Animals
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When The Case for Animal Rights was published in 1983 it rapidly became an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author, Tom Regan (1938–2017), was recognized as an intellectual leader within the animal rights movement. Twenty years later, Case was reissued with a new and fully considered preface, in which Regan responded to his critics and defended the book's revolutionary position. Now, forty years after its original publication, this foundational text is available as an audiobook. In addition to the complete text of the revised 2002 edition, the audiobook includes a recording made by Tom Regan in 2001, in which he reflects on why he wrote The Case for Animal Rights, how it compares with Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, and how his thinking evolved as he was writing the book. The audiobook also features an essay by philosopher Gary Comstock on Tom Regan's contribution to, and place within, the history of thinking about our obligations to nonhuman animals over the last half-century. The audiobook of The Case for Animal Rights is a production of the Culture & Animals Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Tom Regan in 1985. Both the book and the e-book of Case are available from the University of California Press. "Unquestionably the best work yet to appear in its field, surpassing even Peter Singer's famous Animal Liberation in originality, thoroughness, and rigor."—Choice "The Case for Animal Rights is beyond question the most important philosophical contribution to animal rights and is a major work in moral philosophy."—Animal Law Review Duration - 4h 58m. Author - Tom Regan. Narrator - Jennifer Pickens. Published Date - Monday, 02 January 2023. Copyright - © 2004 Regents of the University of California ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:19:07
Epigraph
Duration:00:13:41
Foreword by Gary Comstock (2023)
Duration:22:46:03
Preface to the 2004 Edition
Duration:47:18:58
Preface to the First Edition
Duration:12:45:31
Chapter 1: Animal Awareness
Duration:05:01:54
Chapter 1.1: Animal Awareness: Descartes' Denial
Duration:07:30:58
Chapter 1.2: Animal Awareness: How Not to Challenge Descartes
Duration:07:11:32
Chapter 1.3: Animal Awareness: The Principle of Parsimony
Duration:06:53:06
Chapter 1.4: Animal Awareness: La Mettrie's Objection
Duration:03:44:56
Chapter 1.5: Animal Awareness: The Language Test
Duration:20:57:27
Chapter 1.6: Animal Awareness: Skepticism
Duration:02:50:23
Chapter 1.7: Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Theory and Consciousness
Duration:08:56:18
Chapter 1.8: Animal Awareness: Descartes's Downfall
Duration:12:38:56
Chapter 1.9: Animal Awareness: The Cumulative Argument for Animal Consciousness
Duration:10:58:26
Chapter 1.10: Animal Awareness: Which Animals Are Conscious?
Duration:08:49:35
Chapter 1.11: Animal Awareness: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:05:19:27
Chapter 2: The Complexity of Animal Awareness
Duration:03:00:19
Chapter 2.1: The Complexity of Animal Awareness: The Belief–Desire Theory
Duration:09:20:31
Chapter 2.2: The Complexity of Animal Awareness: Language and Belief
Duration:33:53:36
Chapter 2.3: The Complexity of Animal Awareness: The Content of Belief
Duration:35:37:32
Chapter 2.4: The Complexity of Animal Awareness: Three Objections
Duration:41:24:32
Chapter 2.5: The Complexity of Animal Awareness: The Complexity of Animal Consciousness
Duration:17:59:08
Chapter 2.6: The Complexity of Animal Awareness: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:10:30:25
Chapter 3: Animal Welfare
Duration:05:44:46
Chapter 3.1: Animal Welfare: The Autonomy of Animals
Duration:08:26:58
Chapter 3.2: Animal Welfare: Interests
Duration:04:30:34
Chapter 3.3: Animal Welfare: Benefits
Duration:18:09:30
Chapter 3.4: Animal Welfare: Harms
Duration:17:05:16
Chapter 3.5: Animal Welfare: Death
Duration:14:34:11
Chapter 3.6: Animal Welfare: Paternalism and Animals
Duration:16:14:56
Chapter 3.7: Animal Welfare: Euthanasia and Animals
Duration:21:37:12
Chapter 3.8: Animal Welfare: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:13:15:22
Chapter 4: Ethical Thinking and Theory
Duration:02:50:02
Chapter 4.1: Ethical Thinking and Theory: Some Ways not to Answer Moral Questions
Duration:12:41:43
Chapter 4.2: Ethical Thinking and Theory: The Ideal Moral Judgment
Duration:12:41:27
Chapter 4.3: Ethical Thinking and Theory: Criteria for Evaluating Moral Principles
Duration:30:35:38
Chapter 4.4: Ethical Thinking and Theory: Consequentialist Ethical Theories
Duration:09:44:27
Chapter 4.5: Ethical Thinking and Theory: Nonconsequentialist Ethical Theories
Duration:05:59:30
Chapter 4.6: Ethical Thinking and Theory: Evaluating Ethical Theories
Duration:05:24:25
Chapter 4.7: Ethical Thinking and Theory: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:05:47:31
Chapter 5: Indirect Duty Views
Duration:00:56:23
Chapter 5.1: Indirect Duty Views: Indirect and Direct Duty Views
Duration:03:14:57
Chapter 5.2: Indirect Duty Views: Moral Agents and Moral Patients
Duration:14:59:49
Chapter 5.3: Indirect Duty Views: Narveson's View: Rational Egoism
Duration:18:43:19
Chapter 5.4: Indirect Duty Views: Rawls's Position: Contractarianism
Duration:36:36:19
Chapter 5.5: Indirect Duty Views: Humanity as End in Itself
Duration:34:25:59
Chapter 5.6: Indirect Duty Views: The Moral Arbitrariness of All Indirect Duty Views
Duration:23:45:13
Chapter 5.7: Indirect Duty Views: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:03:27:10
Chapter 6: Direct Duty Views
Duration:01:26:40
Chapter 6.1: Direct Duty Views: The Cruelty–Kindness View
Duration:15:34:07
Chapter 6.2: Direct Duty Views: Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Duration:19:34:18
Chapter 6.3: Direct Duty Views: Preference Utilitarianism
Duration:38:31:40
Chapter 6.4: Direct Duty Views: Singer's Grounds for Vegetarianism
Duration:23:55:54
Chapter 6.5: Direct Duty Views: Utilitarianism and Speciesism
Duration:07:14:27
Chapter 6.6: Direct Duty Views: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:08:53:12
Chapter 7: Justice and Equality
Duration:02:57:34
Chapter 7.1: Justice and Equality: Utilitarian and Perfectionist Theories of Justice
Duration:06:53:45
Chapter 7.2: Justice and Equality: Individuals as Equal in Value
Duration:12:45:15
Chapter 7.3: Justice and Equality: "All Animals Are Equal"
Duration:05:13:06
Chapter 7.4: Justice and Equality: Inherent Value and Reverence for Life
Duration:07:01:57
Chapter 7.5: Justice and Equality: Inherent Value and the Subject-of-a-Life Criterion
Duration:16:15:41
Chapter 7.6: Justice and Equality: Justice: The Principle of Respect for Individuals
Duration:06:32:27
Chapter 7.7: Justice and Equality: Rule Utilitarianism and Justice
Duration:25:27:27
Chapter 7.8: Justice and Equality: Defending the Respect Principle
Duration:12:47:36
Chapter 7.9: Justice and Equality: The Derivation of the Harm Principle
Duration:03:39:37
Chapter 7.10: Justice and Equality: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:06:20:33
Chapter 8: The Rights View
Duration:02:18:03
Chapter 8.1: The Rights View: Moral and Legal Rights
Duration:13:16:40
Chapter 8.2: The Rights View: Claims and Valid Claims
Duration:07:51:04
Chapter 8.3: The Rights View: Acquired and Unacquired Duties
Duration:10:12:52
Chapter 8.4: The Rights View: The Respect Principle and the Right to Respectful Treatment
Duration:08:03:11
Chapter 8.5: The Rights View: The Rights of Moral Patients
Duration:05:20:43
Chapter 8.6: The Rights View: A Miscellany of Objections
Duration:19:02:53
Chapter 8.7: The Rights View: Overriding the Right Not to Be Harmed
Duration:22:29:11
Chapter 8.8: The Rights View: The Innocence of Moral Patients
Duration:09:47:59
Chapter 8.9: The Rights View: Should the Numbers Count?
Duration:14:14:58
Chapter 8.10: The Rights View: The Miniride and Worse-Off Principles
Duration:32:05:19
Chapter 8.11: The Rights View: Why Side-Effects Don't Count
Duration:11:05:22
Chapter 8.12: The Rights View: More Objections Answered
Duration:26:01:58
Chapter 8.13: The Rights View: Unfinished Business
Duration:09:27:19
Chapter 8.14: The Rights View: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:07:20:18
Chapter 9: Implications of the Rights View
Duration:01:24:27
Chapter 9.1: Implications of the Rights View: Why Vegetarianism Is Obligatory
Duration:10:39:09
Chapter 9.2: Implications of the Rights View: Why Hunting and Trapping Are Wrong
Duration:17:30:38
Chapter 9.3: Implications of the Rights View: How to Worry about Endangered Species
Duration:11:45:07
Chapter 9.4: Implications of the Rights View: Against the Use of Animals in Science
Duration:37:39:05
Chapter 9.5: Implications of the Rights View: Summary and Conclusion
Duration:13:57:59
Epilogue
Duration:03:18:03
Tom Regan on Writing The Case for Animal Rights (2001)
Duration:10:47:56
Ending Credits
Duration:00:37:57