Paola Cavalieri
Paola Cavalieri is an Italian philosopher, most known for her work arguing for extension of human rights to the other great apes and more broadly, "to mammals and birds, and probably vertebrates in general". In addition to her books, she was the editor of Etica & Animali, a quarterly international philosophy journal that published nine volumes from 1988 to 1998.
Books
The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity Widely cited in the academic literature.- ''The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights''
Press and scholarly coverage
- Reviews of The Great Ape Project: . "A Trans-Specific Agenda", Russell H. Tuttle, Science 264: 602–603. "Keeping it in the family," Robert Wokler, Times Literary Supplement, 17 September 1993, reprinted in James Koobatian, The Thinking Reader, Wadsworth 2002.
- "" Letter by Calavieri to New York Times, printed 10 February 1997; "," rejoinder by two Yale faculty members, printed 16 February 1997. The same two faculty members repeated their criticism in.
- "", Salon, 4 February 2000. This review of a book by Steven Wise on animal rights briefly mentions The Great Ape Project as a precursor.
- "", 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.
- "," Le Monde, 27 June 2003. Includes a mention of Cavalieri's work. In French.
- by Marco Calarco, International Studies in Philosophy 36: 109–110, calling Cavalieri "one of the premier international animal rights theorists writing today".
- "", Peter Singer, The Guardian, 27 May 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, China Daily, and Daily Times .
- "" Article from The Guardian, 9 June 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.