Tom Regan
Sign in to saveAmerican philosopher (1938–2017)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1938-11-28
- Died
- 2017-02-17
- Works
- 57
Top works
- Animals and Christianity
- Case for Animal Rights
- Animal Sacrifices
- En defensa de los derechos de los animales
- En defensa de los derechos de los animales
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 42
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,197x
- A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,225x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,840x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,266x
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Quotes
- “People like me, people who believe in animal rights, feel the same way about eagles and elephants, pigs and porpoises, as most people feel about cats and dogs. Don't get me wrong. Animal Rights Advocates (ARAs) don't want pigs sleeping in our beds or elephants riding in our cars. We don't want to make “pets” of these animals. What we want is something simpler: we just want people to stop doing terrible things to them.”
- “I would never have become an animal rights advocate if I had not first been a human rights advocate, especially for those humans (the very young and the very old, for example) who lack the understanding or power to assert their rights for themselves.”
- “From my reading of Gandhi I had learned how some people in India regard eating cow as unspeakably repulsive. I realized I felt the same way about cats and dogs: I could never eat them. Were cows so different from cats and dogs that there were two moral standards, one that applies to cows, another that applies to cats and dogs? Were pigs so different? Were any of the animals I ate so different?”
- “The less gifted do not exist to serve the interests of the more gifted. The former are not mere things when compared to the latter, to be used as means to the latter's ends. From the moral point of view, each of us is equal because each of us is equally a somebody, not a something, the subject-of-a-life, not a life without a subject.”
- “What I had learned about human rights proved to be directly relevant to my thinking about animal rights. Whether any animals have rights depends on the true answer to one question: Are any animals subjects-of-a-life? This is the question that needs to be asked about animals because this is the question we need to ask about us.”
- “The task facing ARAs is daunting: we must empty the cages, not make them larger.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1938-11-28 ) November 28, 1938, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- February 17, 2017 (2017-02-17) (aged 78), Raleigh , North Carolina , U.S.
- Spouse
- Nancy Tirk
- Education
- Thiel College ( B.A. ), University of Virginia ( M.A. , PhD )
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy
- Institutions
- North Carolina State University
- Main interests
- Animal rights theory and advocacy
- Notable works
- The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
- Notable ideas
- Concept of "subject-of-a-life"
- Website
- regan .animalsvoice .com
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 November 1938
- Died
- 17 February 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tom
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Place of death
- Raleigh
- Occupation
- writer
- Employer
- North Carolina State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- environmental philosophy
Article
Tom Regan (/ˈreɪɡən/; November 28, 1938 – February 17, 2017) was an American philosopher who specialized in animal rights theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he had taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001.
Regan was the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights (1983), one of a handful of studies that have significantly influenced the modern animal rights movement. In these, he argued that non-human animals are what he called the "subjects-of-a-life", just as humans are, and that, if we want to ascribe value to all human beings regardless of their ability to be rational agents, then to be consistent, we must similarly ascribe it to non-humans.
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1938 births2017 deaths20th-century American male writers20th-century American non-fiction writers20th-century American philosophersAmerican activistsAmerican animal rights scholarsAmerican male non-fiction writersAmerican veganism activistsDeaths from pneumonia in North CarolinaNorth Carolina State University facultyPeople associated with the Oxford Group (animal rights)