Postgraduate Module Descriptor


ANTM111: Animal Ethics

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Carruthers, P. 1989, ‘Brute Experience’, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 86, No. 5. May, pp. 258-269

Cochrane, A. 2012, Animal Rights Without Liberation, New York, NY: Columbia University Press

Dennet, D. 2017, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, St Ives: Allen Lane

Fox,  M. A. 1986, The Case for Animal Experimentation, Berkeley, University of California Press

Gaita, R. 2003, The Philosopher’s Dog, London: Routledge

Nagel, T. 1987, What Does it All Mean?, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Osborne, C. 2007, Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Regan, T. 1985, ‘The Case for Animal Rights’ in Singer, P. In Defense of Animals, Oxford: Blackwell

Rowlands, M. 2012, Can Animals be Moral?, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Singer, P. 1994, Practical Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

______. 1990 (1975), Animal Liberation, New York, NY: Random House