Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights
theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and …

There has been a highly organized campaign of vandalism and intimidation directed against
individuals associated with animal research by militant sections of the animal rights …

Arguments against inflicting violence on people to defend animal rights have relied on the
view that inflicting violence is always wrong. But these arguments end up prohibiting too …

I argue that we should conceive of illegal covert animal rescue as acts of “subrevolution”
rather than as civil disobedience. Subrevolutions are revolutions that aim to overthrow some …

Abstract The Animal Rights Thesis (ART) entails that nonhuman animals like pigs and cows
have moral rights, including rights not to be unjustly harmed. If ART is true, it appears to …

What I call the Orthodox View of resistance and counter-resistance holds that at least in
reasonably just societies a) political resistance is sometimes justified and b) the state and …

Each paper can be read independently, but the general problem that's at the focus of this
dissertation is the following. On the one hand, morality and justice appear to impose the …

CITIZENSHIP GOES TO THE DOGS A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate
School at the University of Missouri-Columb Page 1 CITIZENSHIP GOES TO THE DOGS A …

This thesis addresses the moral permissibility of illegal acts of animal liberation in the form of
civil disobedience, acts of rescue, and acts of sabotage. Animal liberation movements have …