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Tom Regan
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Tom Regan (1938–2017) was an American philosopher, university teacher, and writer. Born in Pittsburgh, he was educated at the University of Virginia and served as an employee at North Carolina State University, where his archives are held. His fields of work included philosophy, ethics, animal rights, and environmental ethics. Regan was a vegetarian and spoke English. He died of pneumonia in Raleigh from natural causes.
His notable works include *Animals and Christianity*, *Case for Animal Rights*, and *Animal Sacrifices*. He authored 57 works according to Open Library records. A quote attributed to him states, "The task facing ARAs is daunting: we must empty the cages, not make them larger."
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Person · Open Library
- 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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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Regan – Voices I Have Heard
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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
- Official website
- regan.animalsvoice.com
- Image
- TomRegan2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tom Regan
- date of birth
- 1938-11-28
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- date of death
- 2017-02-17
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- name in native language
- Tom Regan
- archives at
- North Carolina State University
- web feed URL
- animalsvoice.com/feed
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tom Regan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.