Kristin Andrews

Chimpanzee Rights

The Philosophers' Brief

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Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request-asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.While the courts have agreed that chimpanzees share emotional, behavioural, and cognitive similarities with humans, they have denied that chimpanzees are persons on superficial and sometimes conflicting grounds. Consequently, Kiko and Tommy remain confined as legal things with no rights. The major moral and legal question remains unanswered: are… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Meynell, Letitia / Nobis, Nathan / Pena-Guzman, David / Sebo, Jeff / Comstock, Gary L / G. K. D., Crozier / Donaldson, Sue / Fenton, Andrew / John, Tyler M / Johnson, L. Syd M / Jones, Robert C / Kymlicka, Will

ISBN: 978-0-429-86562-6
EAN: 9780429865626
Produktnummer: 30232619
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 142 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'531 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Authors: Kristin Andrews, York Research Chair in Animal Minds, Associate Professor of Philosophy, York University, Canada.Gary Comstock, Professor of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, USA.G.K.D. Crozier, Canada Research Chair in Environment, Culture and Values, Professor of Philosophy, Laurentian University, Canada.Sue Donaldson, Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada.Andrew Fenton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Canada.Tyler M. John, Ph.D. Student in Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA.L. Syd M Johnson, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, Michigan Technological University, USA.Robert C. Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Chico, USA.Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada.Letitia Meynell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Canada.Nathan Nobis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, USA.David Peña-Guzmán, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Liberal Studies, California State University, San Francisco, USA.Jeffrey Sebo, Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy, and Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program, New York University, USA.Foreword: Lori Gruen is William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, USA, coordinator of the Wesleyan Animal Studies program, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Science in Society.Afterword: Steven M. Wise is an American legal scholar, a former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project.