[edit] Peter Singer
Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher, is best known for his book Animal Liberation, 1975. Animal Liberation was a major formative influence on the animal liberation movement. Peter Singer began his book by defending against Mary Wollstonecraft's 18th-century critic Thomas Taylor, who argued that if Wollstonecraft's reasoning in defense of women's rights were correct, then "brutes" would have rights too. Taylor thought he had produced a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft's view; Singer looked at it as a sound logical implication.
[edit] External Links
- Peter Singer at Wikipedia