Paola Cavalieri (born 26 October 1950) is an Italian philosopher, most known for her work arguing for extension of human rights to the other

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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'' (Co-edited with

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, ...

. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. . Paperback edition published by St. Martin's Griffin, 1994. .) Widely cited in the academic literature. * '' The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights'' (Originally published in Italian as ''La Questione Animale'' in 1999. Translated by Catherine Woollard. Revised by Paola Cavalieri. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. . New edition published in 2003. .)

Press and scholarly coverage

* 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,"

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, 17 September 1993, reprinted in James Koobatian, The Thinking Reader, Wadsworth 2002. *
Isn't It Time to Give Chimps Their Due?
Letter by Calavieri to ''

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'', printed February 10, 1997;
Don't Slight Disabled for Animal Rights' Sake
" rejoinder by two

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faculty members, printed February 16, 1997. The same two faculty members repeated their criticism in . *
Rattling the cage
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, February 4, 2000. This review of a book by Steven Wise on animal rights briefly mentions The Great Ape Project as a precursor.
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, 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''. *

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'', June 27, 2003. Includes a mention of Cavalieri's work. In French.

by Marco Calarco (2004), ''International Studies in Philosophy'' 36(4): 109–110, calling Cavalieri "one of the premier international animal rights theorists writing today". *

, Peter Singer, ''

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'', 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 ''

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Spain to regard apes as ‘legal persons’.
Article from ''

'', 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 ''

''. * The ''

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s cites ''The Great Ape Project'' as additional reading

References

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Books

Press and scholarly coverage

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