Paola Cavalieri

Paola Cavalieri is an Italian philosopher, most known for her work arguing for extension of human rights to the other great apes. In addition to her books, she was the editor of "Etica & Animali", ["About the author", from Oxford University Press's [http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/EthicsMoralPhilosophy/AppliedEthics/?view=usa&ci=9780195173659&view=usa catalog entry for Cavalieri's book "The Animal Question"] .] a quarterly international philosophy journal that published nine volumes from 1988 to 1998.

Books

* "" (Co-edited with Peter Singer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0312104733. Paperback edition published by St. Martin's Griffin, 1994. ISBN 978-0312118181.) Widely cited in the academic literature [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?&cites=5549318896106443569] .
* "" (Originally published in Italian as "La Questione Animale" in 1999. Translated by Catherine Woollard. Revised by Paola Cavalieri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0195143805. New edition published in 2003. ISBN 978-0195173659.)

Press and scholarly coverage

* Reviews of The Great Ape project: [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_199412/ai_n8714636/pg_1 Jonathan Marks, Human Biology, December 1994] . "", 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.
* " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E5DE103CF933A25751C0A961958260 Isn't It Time to Give Chimps Their Due?] " Letter by Calavieri to New York Times, printed February 10, 1997; " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03EED7153FF93BA25751C0A961958260 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 citation|title=The Great Ape Project and disability rights : Ominous undercurrents of eugenics in action|last1=Groce|first1=Nora Ellen|last2=Marks|first2=Jonathan|journal=American Anthropologist|volume=102|issue=4|year=2000|pages=818–822.
* " [http://archive.salon.com/books/it/2000/02/04/cage/index.html 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.
*" [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16276 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".
* " [http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/810256.html 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.
* [http://www.faculty.sbc.edu/mcalarco/Cavalieri.htm 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".
* " [http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,,1784296,00.html 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 [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/05/21/2003309324] , China Daily, and Daily Times (Pakistan) [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C22%5Cstory_22-5-2006_pg6_16] .
* " [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/06/09/2003312449 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. [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-225145/ape]

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