Animals and Science: A Guide to the Debates

This book charts the way people, in general, and scientists have viewed the status of animals. It examines how changing views have affected the way we use, treat and experiment on animals. It also explores how these changing views have affected the way we view others and ourselves. The book is confined to the western philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle through Aquinas, Descartes and Hobbs, to Singer and Regan. Western philosophy is behind much of modern science. The scientists commented on include Galen, da Vinci, Harvey, Galvini and Darwin. The story, briefly, is that the perception of animals changed...