Think
- Think / Volume 8 / Issue 21 / Spring 2009, pp 85-89
- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1477175608000420 (About DOI), Published online: 12 January 2009
Research Article
PAINISM VERSUS UTILITARIANISM
Richard D. Ryder
Abstract
Richard Ryder, one of the founding fathers of the modern animal rights movement, here explains his latest thinking about morality.
Dr. Richard Ryder is a psychologist and ethicist who was Mellon Professor at Tulane University. He is author of Putting Morality Back into Politics, (Imprint Academic, 2006) and Painism: A Modern Morality, (Opengate Press, 2001).
