PHIL 261 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trachea, Sustainability, Tom Regan

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 261
• Professor: Lane Des Autels

Document Summary

A: regan believes in strong animal rights, so he likes all animals (including insects) and believes they have inherent worth. Taylor is a biocentrist so he believes that any living thing with a good of its own has moral considerability and, therefore, inherent worth. Regan is the first to use inherent worth. Singer uses sentience to explain what has worth mammals (mammals arent the only sentient creatures?) Warren says inherent worth is too mysterious animals, but not the same degree as humans. Taylor uses good of a thing (factors can affect something in a good or bad way) living organisms. There"s a fallacy part at the bottom of the original review sheet. Facts: are empirical, descriptive, and subject to scientific assessment (typically are statements), Fact-value gap: one cannot derive an ought (value) statement from an is (fact) statement. i. e. one cannot derive a statement about values from a statement of fact.