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Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
Gary Steiner
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Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388. Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. 232 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 20. Weight: 388.
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 traditional assumption that a lack of formal rationality confers an inferior moral status on animals vis-a-vis ... Read more
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 traditional assumption that a lack of formal rationality confers an inferior moral status on animals vis-a-vis ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231142342
SKU
V9780231142342
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About Gary Steiner
Gary Steiner is John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University. He is the author of Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism and Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy.
Reviews for Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
Highly recommended. Choice The book is interesting, stimulating, and well worth reading for anyone interested in animals' cognition and/or moral status.
Julia Tanner Journal of Applied Philosophy Steiner weaves his narrative through a great deal of material, and in the end proposes a theory of kinship that is sure both to provoke and delight.
Brett Buchanan Society & ... Read more
Julia Tanner Journal of Applied Philosophy Steiner weaves his narrative through a great deal of material, and in the end proposes a theory of kinship that is sure both to provoke and delight.
Brett Buchanan Society & ... Read more