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Animal rights without liberation : applied ethics and human obligations
TLDR
This paper presents a meta-politics of animals, interests, and rights in the context of industrial agriculture, which has implications for both animal welfare and human rights.
Ownership and Justice for Animals
This article argues that it is not necessary to abolish all incidents of animal ownership in order to achieve justice for them. It claims that ownership does not grant owners a right to absolute…
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Do Animals Have an Interest in Liberty?
Proponents of justice for animals often argue that non-human animals have an interest in liberty. Furthermore, they usually claim that this animal interest in liberty is intrinsic rather than…
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From human rights to sentient rights
  • A. Cochrane
  • Philosophy, Political Science
  • 16 October 2013
This article calls for a paradigm shift in the language, theory and practice of human rights: it calls for human rights to be reconceptualized as sentient rights. It argues that human rights are not…
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An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory
How should political communities govern their relations with animals? Are animals owed justice? What might justice for animals involve? Alasdair Cochrane introduces the most prominent schools in…
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Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
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Animal Rights Without Liberation
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In Animal Rights without Liberation, Alasdair Cochrane develops a new theory of animal rights, grounded in their interests as sentient beings, which is convincing in its application of the theory to different policy areas and less convincing in criticism of existing animal rights theories.
Animal Rights and Animal Experiments: An Interest-Based Approach
This paper examines whether non-human animals have a moral right not to be experimented upon. It adopts a Razian conception of rights, whereby an individual possesses a right if an interest of that…
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International Animal Protection: An Introduction
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‘Humane intervention’: the international protection of animal rights
ABSTRACT This paper explores the international implications of liberal theories which extend justice to sentient animals. In particular, it asks whether they imply that coercive military intervention…
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