Abstract
Defending Animal Rights is a collection of lectures given by Tom Regan between 1990 and 1998, and reprinted in paperback, February 2007. The book addresses a wide range of animal rights topics within the broad context of moral philosophy. Regan is a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University, and while the essays are academic in nature, all but one of them are accessible to concerned nonphilosophers. On the whole, this collection of essays is a response to Regan's critics; familiarity with his early work and other opinions on animal rights is not needed but will enrich the reading of this text. Regan's The Case for Animal Rights (1983) argues that nonhuman animals bear moral rights equivalent to the rights of humans. The author's conception that nonhuman animals have the right to not be harmed is the basis for his advocating animal liberation.