Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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1. Sztybel, D. "The Rights of Animal Persons." Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal 4 (1) (2006): 1-37.

This essay addresses important questions including: (1) If thinkers discriminate against animals on the basis of, say, rationality rather than species, are they still speciesists? (2) Does speciesism exist? (3) Do traditional animal rights theories or the ethics of care or utilitarianism provide adequate animal liberation ethics as each claims? (4) Is traditional treatment of animals best characterized as "animal welfare" or "animal illfare"? (5) Can a new approach, the best caring ethics theory of rights, provide a better basis for animal liberation ethics which reflects the strengths of competing views in ethics but not their weaknesses? (6) Should all sentient beings be granted legal personhood? (7) Is Peter Singer's utilitarianism truly a form of animal liberation, and is it in fact speciesist contrary to its intent?

2. Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights: Autonomy and Redundancy." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (3) (2001): 259-73.

Some thinkers believe than we can ascribe moral and/or legal rights to protect humans but that it would be redundant and somehow undesirable to assign such rights to nonhuman animals. I express my grounds for disagreeing with such views.

3. Sztybel, D. "Marxism and Animal Rights."Ethics and the Environment 2 (Fall 1997): 169-85.

Although I am not a Marxist, I set out to show that Marxists must change their views to animal rights or equivalent based on their principle, "From each according to his/her abilities, to each according to his/her need."

4. Sztybel, D. "Animal Rights Law: Fundamentalism versus Pragmatism."Journal for Critical Animal Studies 5 (1) (2007): 1-35.

This article tackles head-on Gary Francione's attempt to drive a wedge between the animal rights and animal welfare movements. Is legislation that merely reduces suffering unethical or ineffective for animal rightists to advocate for the short-term? Not necessarily, or so I argue.

Note 1: Citations of on-line articles should refer both to the web-site and the full journal listing given here.

Note 2: Two more recent articles, "Can the Treatment of Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?" published in Ethics and the Environment, and "A Living Will Clause for Supporters of Animal Experimentation," published in Journal of Applied Philosophy, are not published on this website. However, it is customary for academic colleagues (which for me includes students) to receive offprints of articles upon request. To request one of these offprints you may write Dr. Sztybel at sztybeld@post.queensu.ca.

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