Speciesism and Painism: Some Further Thoughts

Authors

  • Richard Dudley Ryder Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Author Biography

Richard Dudley Ryder, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Dr Richard Ryder gained his MA (Experimental Psychology) and PhD at Cambridge University and was Mellon Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Tulane University. He invented the terms Speciesism in 1970 while working in Oxford, and Painism in 1990. He is currently President of the Animal Interfaith Alliance (AIA) and President of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

References

Alexander Joy: Ethics of the Future, Philosophy Now, 130, February 2019, pp 28-31

Richard D Ryder: Speciesism, Painism and Happiness : A Morality for the Twenty-First Century, Imprint Academic, Exeter, 2011

Richard D Ryder: Painism in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Ed Ruth Chadwick, 2nd Edition, Vol. 3, Academic Press, London, 2012

Richard D Ryder: Speciesism in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Ed Ruth Chadwick, 2nd Edition, Vol 4, Academic Press, London, 2012

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2023-01-29

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Online First

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