Paola Cavalieri
Paola Cavalieri | |
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| Born | 26 October 1950 |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Known for | Great Ape Project |
Paola Cavalieri (born 26 October 1950) is an Italian philosopher, most known for her work arguing for extension of human rights to the other
great apes and more broadly, "to mammals and birds, and probably vertebrates in general".[1] In addition to her books, she was the editor of Etica & Animali,[2]
a quarterly international philosophy journal that published nine volumes from 1988 to 1998.
See also
Books
- ISBN 978-0-312-11818-1.) Widely cited in the academic literature.[3]
- ISBN 978-0-19-517365-9.)
Press and scholarly coverage
- Reviews of The Great Ape Project: Jonathan Marks, Human Biology, December 1994. "A Trans-Specific Agenda", Russell H. Tuttle (1994), Science 264(5158): 602–603. Times Literary Supplement, 17 September 1993, reprinted in James Koobatian, The Thinking Reader, Wadsworth 2002.
- "Isn't It Time to Give Chimps Their Due?" Letter by Calavieri to .
- "Rattling the cage", Salon, February 4, 2000. This review of a book by Steven Wise on animal rights briefly mentions The Great Ape Project as a precursor.
- "Animal Liberation at 30", Peter Singer, New York Review of Books, May 15, 2003. An extensive review of four books, one of which is Cavalieri's The Animal Question: Why Non-human Animals Deserve Human Rights.
- "Maintenir l'homme à part sans soumettre son statut au diktat des savoirs," Le Monde, June 27, 2003. Includes a mention of Cavalieri's work. In French.
- Review of The Animal Question by Marco Calarco (2004), International Studies in Philosophy 36(4): 109–110, calling Cavalieri "one of the premier international animal rights theorists writing today".
- "Great apes deserve life, liberty and the prohibition of torture", Peter Singer, The Guardian, May 27, 2006. This story by the other Great Ape Project founder describes the project in some detail as background to its pro-animal-rights message. Reprinted in the Taipei Times [1], China Daily, and Daily Times [2].
- "Spain to regard apes as ‘legal persons’." Article from The Guardian, June 9, 2006, regarding a Spanish resolution "based on the work of the Great Ape Project, which was founded in 1993 by philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri", with several paragraphs on their work. Reprinted in the Taipei Times.
- The Encyclopædia Britannica article on apes cites The Great Ape Project as additional reading. [3]
References
- ^ Cavalieri, P. (2001), "The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights", Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.139.
- ^ "About the author", from Oxford University Press's catalog entry for Cavalieri's book The Animal Question Archived 2007-03-01 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
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