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Title:

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

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Animal rights.
Animal rights movement.
Mensapen.
Ethische aspecten.

Other Authors:

Cavalieri, Paola, 1950-
Singer, Peter, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The Great Ape Project - and beyond / VII. Epilogue -- Chimpanzees - bridging the gap / Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer. Meeting a gorilla / Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine -- Chimpanzees are always new to me / Toshisada Nishida -- II. Conversations with apes -- 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 -- The case for the personhood of gorillas / Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon -- III. Similarity and difference -- Gaps in the mind / Richard Dawkins -- The 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 -- IV. Ethics -- 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 Anstötz -- Who's like us? / Heta Häyry and Matti Häyry -- A basis for (interspecies) equality / Ingmar Persson -- Ill-gotten gains / Tom Regan -- The ascent of apes - broadening the moral community / Bernard E. Rollin -- Sentientism / Richard D. Ryder -- Great apes and the human resistance to equality / Dale Jamieson -- V. Apes as persons -- The 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 -- VI. Reality -- Items of property / David Cantor -- The chimp farm / Betsy Swart -- They are us / Geza Teleki -- VII. Epilogue -- The Great Ape Project - and beyond / Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer.

ISBN:

9780312104733
0312104731

LCCN:

93035892

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)