The Animal Rights Debate: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues (Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues) - Softcover

A fascinating treatise . . . [that] appeals primarily to students and animal rights proponents. * Publishers Weekly * The volume should be in the library of any school where philosophy is taught or animal research conducted, that is, in nearly every academic library. * CHOICE * Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text isrequired reading for everyone interested in this critical issue.... -- Gary Comstock, Iowa State University The book would make an ideal main text in a seminar on animals, ethics, and science for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in philosophy, biological sciences, experimental psychology, or the health-professions, including veterinary sciences. * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association * The book is enormously entertaining, and both writers succeed in making it clear and simple. * Radical Philosophy * A tour de force of brilliant debate. No other 'seeing the issues from both sides' book comes close to this one in the sustained power of argumentation and in its thorough canvassing of the issues surrounding everything that might be said about the ethical treatment of animals. Quite simply, the best book of its kind. -- Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University Tom Regan is without doubt the world's greatest defender of the rights of animals. Carl Cohen is one of Regan's notable critics. Here, between the pages of a single volume, are important new contributions from each of these authors. The resulting text is required reading for everyone interested in this critical issue. -- Gary Comstock, Iowa State University The two [Cohen and Regan] argue vigorously and write clearly, producing an engaging, accessible book. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *

Here, for the first time, the world's two leading authorities Tom Regan, who argues for animal rights, and Carl Cohen, who argues against themmake their respective case before the public at large. The very terms of the debate will never be the same. This seminal moment in the history of the controversy over animal rights will influence the direction of this debate throughout the rest of the century.