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Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights

Author : James V. Parker
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 076185178X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights written by James V. Parker and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights. The book presents Bernard Lonergan's theory about consciousness and the operations of the mind-a theory about two types of knowing and desiring: one shared by humans and animals, and the other, which depends on the activity of asking questions, possessed by humans alone. The author tests this theory against present-day research with apes, and examines religious claims, historical and current, about animals. Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights concludes by laying a philosophical and theological foundation for a contemporary ethic in which humans are obligated to exercise intelligent stewardship and ensure the compassionate treatment of animals.

Animal Minds and Human Morals

Author : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482984
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Animal Minds and Human Morals written by Richard Sorabji and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorabji surveys a vast range of Greek philosophical texts and considers how classical discussions of animals' capacities intersect with central questions, not only in ethics but in the definition of human rationality as well.

Experiencing Animal Minds

Author : Julie A. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231530765
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Animal Minds written by Julie A. Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies, and art, as well as chapters by and about people who live and work with animals, including the founder of a sanctuary for chickens, a fur trapper, a popular canine psychologist, a horse trainer, and an art photographer who captures everyday contact between humans and their animal companions. Divided into five sections, the collection first considers the ways that humans live with animals and the influence of cohabitation on their perceptions of animals' minds. It follows with an examination of anthropomorphism as both a guide and hindrance to mapping animal consciousness. Chapters next examine the effects of embodiment on animals' minds and the role of animal-human interembodiment on humans' understandings of animals' minds. Final sections identify historical representations of difference between human and animal consciousness and their relevance to pre-established cultural attitudes, as well as the ways that representations of animals' minds target particular audiences and sometimes produce problematic outcomes. The editors conclude with a discussion of the relationship between the book's chapters and two pressing themes: the connection between human beliefs about animals' minds and human ethical behavior, and the challenges and conditions for knowing the minds of animals. By inviting readers to compare and contrast multiple, uncommon points of view, this collection offers a unique encounter with the diverse perspectives and theories now shaping animal studies.

The Case for Animal Rights

Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520054608
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Animal Rights written by Tom Regan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view. With a new preface.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds

Author : Kristin Andrews
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317585615
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds written by Kristin Andrews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major topic in philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly fifty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into eight parts: Mental representation Reasoning and metacognition Consciousness Mindreading Communication Social cognition and culture Association, simplicity, and modeling Ethics. Within these sections, central issues, debates, and problems are examined, including: whether and how animals represent and reason about the world; how animal cognition differs from human cognition; whether animals are conscious; whether animals represent their own mental states or those of others; how animals communicate; the extent to which animals have cultures; how to choose among competing models and explanations of animal behavior; and whether animals are moral agents and/or moral patients. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, ethics, and related disciplines such as ethology, biology, psychology, linguistics, and anthropology.

The Philosophy of Animal Minds

Author : Robert W. Lurz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139481029
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Animal Minds written by Robert W. Lurz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has been a topic of interest to philosophers since the origins of philosophy, and recent years have seen significant philosophical engagement with the subject. However, there is no volume that represents the current state of play in this important and growing field. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the state of the debate. The issues which are covered include whether and to what degree animals think in a language or in iconic structures, possess concepts, are conscious, self-aware, metacognize, attribute states of mind to others, and have emotions, as well as issues pertaining to our knowledge of and the scientific standards for attributing mental states to animals.

Animal Minds & Animal Ethics

Author : Klaus Petrus
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839424623
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Animal Minds & Animal Ethics written by Klaus Petrus and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers interested in the question of animal minds sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition.

The Soul of All Living Creatures

Author : Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307718875
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of All Living Creatures written by Vint Virga, D.V.M. and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As profiled in the New York Times Magazine… Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them. As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired him to explore the world from the viewpoint of animals and taught him to respect the kinship that connects us. With The Soul of All Living Creatures, Virga draws from his decades in veterinary practice to reveal how, by striving to perceive the world as animals do, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, enhance our character, nurture our relationships, improve our communication with others, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality. Virga discerningly illuminates basic traits shared by both humans and animals and makes animal behavior meaningful, relevant, and easy to understand. Insightful and eloquent, The Soul of All Living Creatures offers an intimate journey into the lives of our fellow creatures and a thought-provoking promise of what we can learn from spending time with them.

Taking Animals Seriously

Author : David DeGrazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567602
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Taking Animals Seriously written by David DeGrazia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book distinguishes itself from much of the polemical literature on these issues by offering the most judicious and well-balanced account yet available of animals' moral standing, and related questions concerning their minds and welfare. Transcending jejune debates focused on utilitarianism versus rights, the book offers a fresh methodological approach with specific and constructive conclusions about our treatment of animals. David DeGrazia provides the most thorough discussion yet of whether equal consideration should be extended to animals' interests, and examines the issues of animal minds and animal well-being with an unparalleled combination of philosophical rigor and empirical documentation. His book is an important contribution to the field of animal ethics and will be read with special interest by all philosophers teaching such courses, as well as biologists, those professionally involved with animals, and general readers concerned about animal welfare.

Minding Animals

Author : Marc Bekoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195348648
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Minding Animals written by Marc Bekoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking bees, ice-skating buffaloes, dreaming rats, happy foxes, ecstatic elephants, despondent dolphins--in Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe--from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Antarctica. He draws on this vast experience, as well as on the observations of other naturalists, to offer readers fascinating stories of animal behavior, including grooming and gossip, self-medication, feeding patterns, dreaming, dominance, and mating behavior. Many of these stories are truly incredible--chimpanzees medicating themselves with herbal remedies, elephants clearly mourning a dead group member--but this is not simply a catalog of amazing animal tales, for Bekoff also sheds light on many of the more serious issues surrounding animals. He offers a thought-provoking look at animal cognition, intelligence, and consciousness and he presents vivid examples of animal passions, highlighting the deep emotional lives of our animal kin. All this serves as background for his thoughtful conclusions about humility and animal protection and animal well-being, where he urges a new paradigm of respect, grace, compassion, and love for all animals. Marc Bekoff has gone deep into the minds, hearts, spirits, and souls of animals, giving him profound insight into their lives, and no small insight into ours. Minding Animals is an important contribution to our understanding of animal consciousness, a major work that will be a must read for anyone who loves nature.

Animal Minds & Human Morals

Author : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Minds & Human Morals written by Richard Sorabji and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empty Cages

Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742578216
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Empty Cages written by Tom Regan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shocking expose dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates portrayed by the media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of human treatment favored by animal exploiters, and explain why exisiting laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty.

Beyond Words

Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805098887
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Words written by Carl Safina and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins

Animal Rights

Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312217204
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Animal Rights written by Mark Rowlands and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the nature and extent of our moral obligations to non-human animals has featured prominently in recent moral debate. This book defends the novel position that a contradictarian moral theory can be used to justify the claim that animals possess a substantial and wide-ranging set of moral rights. Critiquing the rival accounts of Peter Singer and Tom Regan, this study shows how an influential form of the social contract idea can be extended to make sense of the concept of animal rights.

The Philosophy of Animal Rights

Author :
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590562631
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Animal Rights written by and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Souls of Animals

Author : Gary Kowalski
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608682099
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Souls of Animals written by Gary Kowalski and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do elephants bury their dead? What makes birds sing and cranes dance? Do animals appreciate art? Do they know the difference between right and wrong? Do they experience awe and wonder? In this revised second edition of his celebrated book, Reverend Gary Kowalski combines heartwarming stories with solid science to show that other creatures are not insensitive objects devoid of feeling and intellect but thinking, sentient beings with an inward, spiritual life.

Inside the Animal Mind

Author : George Page
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767909313
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Animal Mind written by George Page and published by Crown. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Don't Lie About Love, Inside the Animal Mind is a groundbreaking exploration of the nature and depth of animal intelligence. While in the past scientists have refused to acknowledge that animals have anything like human intelligence, a growing body of research reveals otherwise. We’ve discovered ants that use leaves as tools to cross bodies of water, woodpecker finches that hold twigs in their beaks to dig for grubs, and bonobo apes that can use sticks to knock down fruit or pole-vault over water. Not only do animals use tools–some also display an ability to learn and problem-solve. Based on the latest scientific and anecdotal evidence culled from animal experts in the labs and the field, Inside the Animal Mind is an engrossing look at animal intelligence, cognitive ability, problem solving, and emotion. George Page, originator and host of the long-running PBS series Nature, offers us an informed, entertaining, and humanistic investigation of the minds of predators and scavengers, birds and primates, rodents and other species. Illustrated with twenty-four black-and-white photographs, the book is the companion to the three-part, hour-long show of the same name, hosted by Page.