Tag: "animals & human beings"

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University. Giancarlo Marchetti chatted with him about his ideas and his hopes.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Interview]

Euthanasia Debate (I)

Tim Chappell explains “Why Euthanasia is in Nobody’s Interest”.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Debate]

Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan

Lisa Kemmerer cheers on Tom Regan as he defends the idea of animals having rights.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Books]

Carpal Knowledge

Raymond Tallis on the natural philosophy of the caress. It’s gripping stuff!
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Articles]

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton. Notorious for his views on issues such as euthanasia, he is also revered as a founding father by the animal rights movement. Jeremy Iggers asked him about the treatment of farm animals and about his own strict vegetarianism.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Interview]

The Reproductive Psychology of Inanimate Objects

Edward Ingram thinks your television is manipulating you.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Articles]

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton, the foxhunting philosopher has written a new book on Animal Rights and Wrongs. He talked with Anja Steinbauer about Kant, duties and pet rabbits.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: Interview]

Parachutes, Ticks & Moral Environments

Vance Morgan on how to build a moral environment of your very own.
[Issue 26: April/May 2000: Ethics]

Humans and Dumb Animals

Jane Forsey asks, what makes us so special?
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: Articles]

The Day of the Bluebottle

Kevin Brooks confesses to insecticide.
[Issue 19: Winter 1997/98: Short Story]