Animals and the Moral Community : Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
Gary. Steiner
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (229 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Arguments Against Rationality in Animals; 2. Arguments for Rationality in Animals; 3. An Associationist Model of Animal Cognition; 4. Liberal Individualism and the Problem of Animal Rights; 5. The Ideal of Cosmic Holism; 6. ""Cosmo-Politics"": Grounding Liberal Individualism in Cosmic Holism; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc Hauser, Daniel Dennett, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, among others, Steiner shows how the Western philosophical tradition has forced animals into human experiential categories in order to make sense of their cognitive abilities and moral status and how desperately we need a new approach to animal rights. Steiner rejects the trad
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| ISBN | 9780231142342
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