COGS 3750 Study Guide - Final Guide: Great Lives, Meat Industry, Blindsight
5 Apr 2014
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I animal rights: further examination: we"ve begun our examination of moral issues with a discussion of the topic of animal rights. What sorts of rights, if any, do non-human animals have in the way of treatment: the first two philosophers we discussed, feinberg and singer, settled on the animal rights side of this debate: animals have the full (i. e. , 4: as mentioned, crisp defends (cr), this is a unique view, and crisp defends it in a unique way. What"s unique about crisp"s defense of (cr) is that he doesn"t take the usual route of trying to refute the sentience of animals (the fact that they are conscious). On the contrary, crisp claims that once we start with utilitarian principles, reason dictates that we should reject the vegetarian position in favour of (cr), even assuming animals are sentient. Moreover, he thinks that (rf), (cp) and (fr) can be rejected.
