Paola Cavalieri

Paola Cavalieri (...) è una filosofa italiana.

È conosciuta principalmente come teorica e sostenitrice della causa dei diritti degli animali, in particolare delle grandi scimmie. Su questo argomento ha pubblicato Il Progetto Grande Scimmia (1993), realizzato insieme al filosofo Peter Singer e da cui ha preso le mosse il Progetto Grande Scimmia, e La questione animale (1999). Cavalieri è inoltre direttrice della rivista internazionale di filosofia Etica & Animali.

Libri

• Il progetto grande scimmia. Euguaglianza oltre i confini della specie umana, Theoria, 1993, ISBN 978-88-241-0391-6
• La questione animale. Per una teoria allargata dei diritti umani, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, ISBN 978-88-339-1160-1

Articoli

• Reviews of The Great Ape project: Jonathan Marks, Human Biology, December 1994. "A Trans-Specific Agenda", Russell H. Tuttle (1994), Science 264(5158): 602–603. "Keeping it in the family," Robert Wokler, Times Literary Supplement, 17 September 1993, reprinted in James Koobatian, The Thinking Reader, Wadsworth 2002.
• "Isn't It Time to Give Chimps Their Due?" Letter by Cavalieri to New York Times, printed February 10, 1997; "Don't Slight Disabled for Animal Rights' Sake," rejoinder by two Yale faculty members, printed February 16, 1997. The same two faculty members repeated their criticism in Groce, Nora Ellen (2000). The Great Ape Project and disability rights: Ominous undercurrents of eugenics in action. American Anthropologist 102 (4): 818–822..
• "Rattling the cage", Salon, February 4, 2000. This review of a book by Steven Wise on animal rights briefly mentions The Great Ape Project as a precursor.
• "Animal Liberation at 30", Peter Singer, New York Review of Books, May 15, 2003. An extensive review of four books, one of which is Cavalieri's The Animal Question: Why Non-human Animals Deserve Human Rights.
• "Maintenir l'homme à part sans soumettre son statut au diktat des savoirs," Le Monde, June 27, 2003. Includes a mention of Cavalieri's work. In French.
• Review of The Animal Question by Marco Calarco (2004), International Studies in Philosophy 36(4): 109–110, calling Cavalieri "one of the premier international animal rights theorists writing today".
• "Great apes deserve life, liberty and the prohibition of torture", Peter Singer, The Guardian, May 27, 2006. This story by the other Great Ape Project founder describes the project in some detail as background to its pro-animal-rights message. Reprinted in the Taipei Times [1], China Daily, and Daily Times (Pakistan) [2].
• "Spain to regard apes as ‘legal persons’." Article from The Guardian, June 9, 2006, regarding a Spanish resolution "based on the work of the Great Ape Project, which was founded in 1993 by philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri", with several paragraphs on their work. Reprinted in the Taipei Times.
• The Encyclopædia Britannica article on apes cites The Great Ape project as additional reading. [3]

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