Overview
- Applies the findings of cognitive ethology to animal ethics
- Synthesizes the work of critical animal theorists, philosophers, and cognitive ethologists
- Explores how the debates concerning anthropomorphism play a key role in understanding of animal ethics
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)
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Front Matter
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About this book
With an ever-growing body of evidence on the links between different oppressions, never have the debates in Critical Animal Studies surrounding intersectionality in relation to animal ethics been more important. In particular, the arguments related to anthropomorphic attributes of mentality to other than humans promise to provide fruitful new ground for re-assessing human-animal relations. This book maps the central debates surrounding anthropomorphism in relation to our descriptions of animals, their lives, animal mentality, and meaningful communication in the nonhuman world. Rebekah Humphreys synthesizes the work of critical animal theorists, philosophers, and cognitive ethologists, and provides a critical account of how the debates concerning anthropomorphism play a key role in a proper understanding of animal ethics.
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Book Title: Animals, Ethics, and Language
Book Subtitle: The Philosophy of Meaningful Communication in the Lives of Animals
Authors: Rebekah Humphreys
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32080-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s)(if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32079-8Published: 21 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32082-8Due: 22 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32080-4Published: 20 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6672
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 196
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology