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Title The great ape project : equality beyond humanity / edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Griffin, 1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  179.3 G798 1996    ---  Available
Edition 1st. St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Description viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note Originally published: London, [England] : Fourth Estate Limited, c1993.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Chimpanzees : bridging the gap / Jane Goodall -- Meeting a gorilla / Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine -- Chimpanzees are always new to me / Toshisada Nishida -- Chimpanzees' use of sign language / Roger S. Fouts and Deborah H. Fouts -- Language and the orang-utan : the old 'person' of the forest / H. Lyn White Miles -- Case for the personhood of gorillas / Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon -- Gaps in the mind / Richard Dawkins -- Third chimpanzee / Jared Diamond -- Common sense, cognitive ethology and evolution / Marc Bekoff -- What's in a classification? / R. I. M. Dunbar -- Apes and the idea of kindred / Stephen R. L. Clark -- Ambiguous apes / Raymond Corbey.
Spirits dressed in furs? / Adriaan Kortlandt -- Apes, humans, aliens, vampires and robots / Colin McGinn -- Why Darwinians should support equal treatment for other apes / James Rachels -- Profoundly intellectually disabled humans and the great apes : a comparison / Christoph Anstotz -- Who's like us? / Heta Hayry and Matti Hayry -- Basis for (interspecies) equality / Ingmar Persson -- Ill-gotten gains / Tom Regan -- Ascent of apes--broadening the moral community / Bernard E. Rollin -- Sentientism / Richard D. Ryder -- Great apes and the human resistance to equality / Dale Jamieson -- Wahokies / Harlan B. Miller -- Humans, nonhumans and personhood / Robert W. Mitchell.
Personhood, property and legal competence / Gary L. Francione -- Great apes as anthropological subjects : deconstructing anthropocentrism / Barbara Noske -- Aping persons : pro and con / Steve F. Sapontzis -- Items of property / David Cantor -- Chimp farm / Betsy Swart -- They are us / Geza Teleki.
Subject Animal rights.
Animal rights movement.
Apes.
Added Author Cavalieri, Paola, 1950-
Singer, Peter, 1946-
ISBN 031211818X (pbk.)

 
    
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