What Are Animal Rights For?
Steve Cooke 从感知力出发，追溯动物权利的哲学史（包括非西方思想家如 Al-Ma'arri），并通过农业、伴侣动物、动物园和实验四个案例，展示一个基于动物权利的社会意味着什么。 Steve Cooke grounds animal rights in sentience, traces their philosophical history (including non-Western thinkers like Al-Ma'arri), and uses four case studies — agriculture, companion animals, zoos, and experimentation — to show what a society based on animal rights would look like.
What Are Animal Rights For? (Bristol UP, 2023) is a concise, accessible introduction to animal rights theory. Cooke argues that sentience is the key criterion for rights-bearing, surveys the philosophical history of animal rights (notably including non-Western voices often omitted from standard accounts), and applies the theory to four contested domains: agriculture, companion animals, zoos, and experimentation. Part of the “What Is It For?” series.