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Animal rights is a philosophical and ethical stance advocating for the inherent value of non-human animals, emphasizing their right to live free from exploitation, harm, and suffering by humans. It challenges practices that treat animals as mere resources and promotes legal and moral considerations for their welfare and protection.
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Animal rights is a philosophical and ethical stance advocating for the inherent value of non-human animals, emphasizing their right to live free from exploitation, harm, and suffering by humans. It challenges practices that treat animals as mere resources and promotes legal and moral considerations for their welfare and protection.

Key research themes

1. How can legal personhood frameworks be adapted to include animals and advance their rights?

This research theme explores the use of legal personhood as a mechanism to grant animals fundamental legal rights traditionally reserved for humans. It critically examines existing litigation strategies, conceptualizations, and judiciary responses, highlighting the challenges and proposing refined theories of legal personhood that may facilitate recognition of animals as rights holders within legal systems. This matters because achieving legal personhood for animals can concretely enhance their protections and welfare through enforceable rights.

Key finding: This work analyzes the role of scientific evidence pertaining to sentience and cognition in justifying legal personhood for certain animals (e.g., elephants, nonhuman primates). It finds that despite advances elucidating... Read more
Key finding: The article formulates a conceptual differentiation between weak 'animal welfare rights' emergent from current laws and stronger, future-oriented 'fundamental animal rights.' It argues that legal animal rights necessitate... Read more

2. What is the relationship between animal freedom and welfare in captive settings, and how should it inform ethical and practical treatment of animals?

This area investigates the conceptual and empirical links between freedom and animal welfare, particularly in captivity such as zoos and aquariums. By distinguishing freedom as an intrinsic versus instrumental good, it underscores the complexities of captivity debates and advocates for empirical welfare data to inform ethical decisions. This theme is key for resolving controversies around captivity and improving conditions based on robust scientific understanding rather than intuition.

Key finding: This study differentiates freedom's value to animals as either intrinsically valuable or instrumentally valuable, contributing to welfare by enabling access to resources. It critiques debates often relying on intuition and... Read more
Key finding: The article argues that understanding animal welfare—a prudential value—is deeply connected to ethical reflection, challenging the strict separation between welfare science and ethics. It highlights how ethical judgments... Read more
Key finding: The paper reveals that many animals form emotionally significant caring relationships, which have objective as well as experiential value. It argues that current welfare approaches often overlook harms caused by disrupting or... Read more

3. How do political theory and social justice frameworks reconceptualize animal rights to enhance inclusion and protection?

This theme encompasses the political turn in animal rights scholarship, framing animals as political subjects within democratic and justice frameworks. It addresses animal subjection, associative relationships with humans, and social membership, proposing differentiated statuses like citizenship, denizenship, and sovereignty to recognize varying animal positions. The theme also situates animal rights within broader social justice paradigms, illuminating their intersections with systemic domination and oppression and advocating for expanded moral and political inclusion.

Key finding: The article outlines innovative political theory approaches that locate animal rights within democratic frameworks by categorizing animals into citizenship, denizenship, and sovereignty statuses based on human-animal... Read more
Key finding: This paper argues that animals qualify as legitimate subjects of social justice due to experiencing systemic domination and oppression. It connects animals' robust moral status and entitlements to social justice aims such as... Read more
Key finding: The work critically examines purported unifying features of the 'political turn' in animal ethics and finds neither focus on relations and positive duties, pragmatic prescriptions, nor avoidance of first principles to be... Read more
Key finding: This book proposes the 'One Rights' approach, integrating human and animal rights into a holistic, post-anthropocentric human rights paradigm suited for the Anthropocene. It contends that protecting animals alongside humans... Read more

All papers in Animals Rights

Having an animal right club in the Faculty will empowers the students or gives them a better experience on how to treat animal as they have rights, and they can take the knowledge into adulthood and hopefully create a conclusive world for... more
Bu yazıyı, bir önceki “Devletin İnsanmerkeziyetçi Sureti: Türkiye’de Sokak Hayvanları Üzerinden Kent Politikası” başlıklı yazıma gelen eleştiriler üzerine kaleme alma ihtiyacı hissettim. O yazımda, birçok noktanın açılmaya değer olduğunu... more
Con palabras de Gandhi, "Un país, una civilización se puede juzgar por la forma en que trata a sus animales".
Tradução de um belo texto introdutório à questão da animalidade escrito por Elisabeth de Fontenay para uma coleção juvenil. “Quand un animal te regarde” foi publicado originalmente pela editora Gallimard Jeunesse/Giboullées, de Paris, no... more
Negli ultimi decenni si è andato delineando un nuovo filone di ricerca all’interno delle discipline filosofico-teologiche volto a indagare il ruolo assegnato agli animali all'interno della tradizione ebraico-cristiana. Le ragioni di... more
"Le moustique, la carpe et le chimpanzé. Serait-ce le titre d’une fable de La Fontaine ? Non, simplement le choix de trois espèces étant “très éloignées”. Dans nos sociétés, on classe en effet les animaux. Que ce soit selon les capacités... more
Possiamo giudicare il cuore dell'uomo da come tratta gli animali.
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