Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For AnimalsHachette+ORM, 08.07.2014 - 384 Seiten Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched argument, Wise demonstrates that the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes entitle them to freedom from imprisonment and abuse. |
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... professor. He is also an accomplished animal-rights legal scholar and one of the world's most prominent animal-rights lawyers. Steve and his wife, Debi, defend a variety of animal species across the United States and advise those who ...
... professor. He is also an accomplished animal-rights legal scholar and one of the world's most prominent animal-rights lawyers. Steve and his wife, Debi, defend a variety of animal species across the United States and advise those who ...
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... professors—indeed everyone everywhere—will be able to follow the argument. So that in the end the machinery of the law can be changed in favour of the great apes. It will be too late for JoJo, Jade, and Dick—they are gone. Yet still I ...
... professors—indeed everyone everywhere—will be able to follow the argument. So that in the end the machinery of the law can be changed in favour of the great apes. It will be too late for JoJo, Jade, and Dick—they are gone. Yet still I ...
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... professors, lawyers, judges, and philosophers who were kind enough to review portions of this book, or earlier articles, or to debate issues that helped me to clarify my thinking: Taimie Bryant, David Favre, Thomas G. Kelch, Sarah Luick ...
... professors, lawyers, judges, and philosophers who were kind enough to review portions of this book, or earlier articles, or to debate issues that helped me to clarify my thinking: Taimie Bryant, David Favre, Thomas G. Kelch, Sarah Luick ...
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... professors, political science professors, sociologists, natural scientists, mathematicians, communications and social media experts, and others. The purpose of the Nonhuman Rights Project is to demonstrate the capacity of such nonhuman ...
... professors, political science professors, sociologists, natural scientists, mathematicians, communications and social media experts, and others. The purpose of the Nonhuman Rights Project is to demonstrate the capacity of such nonhuman ...
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... professor at Central Washington University, and the director of its Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute; Mathias Osvath, a cognitive zoologist at Sweden's Lund University; James E. King, a specialist in the personality ...
... professor at Central Washington University, and the director of its Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute; Mathias Osvath, a cognitive zoologist at Sweden's Lund University; James E. King, a specialist in the personality ...
Inhalt
1 | |
9 | |
3 The Legal Thinghood of Nonhuman Animals | 23 |
4 Border Crossings | 35 |
5 What Are Legal Rights? | 49 |
6 Liberty and Equality | 63 |
7 The Common Law | 89 |
8 Consciousness Taxonomy and Minds | 119 |
9 Seasons of the Mind | 163 |
10 Chimpanzee and Bonobo Minds | 179 |
11 Bending Toward Justice | 239 |
Other Cages Other Peaks | 267 |
Notes | 271 |
About the Author | 339 |
Index | 341 |
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