Animal Minds & Animal Ethics : : Connecting Two Separate Fields / / ed. by Markus Wild, Klaus Petrus.

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 som...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2013
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Human-Animal Studies ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Animals, Science and the Moral Community
  • 1. Animal Mind
  • 2. Animal Minds, Cognitive Ethology, and Ethics
  • 3. A Form of War
  • 4. Cognition and Community
  • Part Two: Animal Autonomy and Its Moral Significance
  • 5. Mental Capacities and Animal Ethics
  • 6. The Question of Belief Attribution in Great Apes
  • 7. Ape Autonomy?
  • 8. The Nonhuman Roots of Human Morality
  • Part Three: The Diversity of Animal Ethics
  • 9. Animal Rights
  • 10. Taking Sentience Seriously
  • 12. Personhood, Interaction and Skepticism
  • 13. Eating and Experimenting on Animals
  • Contributors