Animals and the moral community: mental life, moral status, and kinship

"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...

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Main Author: Steiner, Gary 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia Univ. Press 2008
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XII, 212 S.
ISBN:9780231142342
9780231512602

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