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Harrison on Animal Pain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Ian House
Affiliation:
Leighton Park School, Reading

Extract

In ‘Do Animals Feel Pain?’ Peter Harrison argues that there are no good reasons to think that animals feel pain, that there are good reasons to think they do not feel pain, and that they should be treated well in order to promote not animal, but human, welfare. This is a provocative, and implausible, thesis. It has succeeded in provoking me, to rage and to rejoinder, but it has failed to convince me that a monkey shrieking as it is mutilated is not feeling pain and that feelings of concern for the monkey should play no part in my attempt to stop the mutilation.

Type
Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1991

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References

1 Harrison, Peter, ‘Do Animals Feel Pain?’, Philosophy 66, No. 255 (01 1991), 2540.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Nagel, Thomas, ‘What is it Like to be a Bat?Philosophical Review 83 (1974), 435–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar