Babies and Beasts: THE ARGUMENT FROM MARGINAL CASES - Softcover

Dombrowski, Daniel A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252066383 ISBN 13: 9780252066382

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1997

Synopsis

    
      Both its defenders and detractors
        have described the argument from marginal cases as the most important
        to date in defense of animal rights. Hotly debated among philosophers
        for some twenty years, the argument concludes that no morally relevant
        characteristic distinguishes human beings–including infants, the
        severely retarded, the comatose, and other "marginal cases"--from
        any other animals.
      Babies and Beasts presents
        the first book-length exploration of the broad range of views relating
        to the argument from marginal cases and sorts out and evaluates its various
        uses and abuses.
      Daniel Dombrowski analyzes
        the views of many who are prominent in the debate--
        Peter Singer, Thomas Regan, H. J. McCloskey, Jan Narveson, John Rawls,
        R. G. Frey, Peter Carruthers, Michael Leahy, Robert Nozick, and James
        Rachels are included--in a volume that will be essential to philosophers,
        animal rights activists, those who work in clinical settings, and others
        who must sometimes deal with "marginal cases."
 

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel A. Dombrowski is professor of philosophy at Seattle University. His books include "Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases" and "Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights".

Review:

"Excellent ... a clear, readable account of the debate that touches all the bases." -- James Rachels, author of Created from Animals: The Moral Implication of Darwinism

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0252066383
• ISBN 13: 9780252066382
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232