Planning for the Future : Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live?

Planning for the Future : Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live? / Felicitas Selter

Are animals mentally stuck in the present, unable to think beyond the here and now, or are they mental time travelers, capable of planning ahead in time? And why should this matter to us? "Planning for the Future" provides a thorough conceptual clarification of the most important but ambig...

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Selter, Felicitas
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Privative Badness of Death
  • The Time-relative Interest Account of the Badness of Death
  • Planning: Clarification of an Ambiguous Concept
  • Planning Animals?
  • Back to the Ethics of Killing Animals
  • Final Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.

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