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The Human Animal Boundary
Author | : Mario Wenning,Nandita Batra |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498557832 |
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The Human–Animal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question “what is human?” with the question “what is animal?” The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of human–animal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.
The Human animal Boundary
Author | : Nandita Batra,Mario Wenning |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498557821 |
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The Human-Animal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question "what is human?" with the question "what is animal?" The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.
The Animal human Boundary
Author | : Angela N. H. Creager,William C. Jordan |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1580461204 |
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An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.
The Boundaries of Humanity
Author | : James J. Sheehan,Morton Sosna |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2024-03-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780520313118 |
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To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors: Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupré, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire, Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
The Boundaries of Human Nature
Author | : Matthew Calarco |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2021-12-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780231550963 |
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Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might asking and answering questions like these lead us to rethink human-animal relations in an age of catastrophic ecological destruction? In this accessible and engaging book, Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. He leads readers on a spirited tour of historical and contemporary philosophy, ranging from Plato to Donna Haraway and from the Cynics to the Jains. Calarco unearths surprising insights about animals from a number of philosophers while also underscoring ways in which the philosophical tradition has failed to challenge the dogma of human-centeredness. Along the way, he indicates how mainstream Western philosophy is both complemented and challenged by non-Western traditions and noncanonical theories about animals. Throughout, Calarco uses examples from contemporary culture to illustrate how philosophical theories about animals are deeply relevant to our lives today. The Boundaries of Human Nature shows readers why philosophy can help transform not just the way we think about animals but also how we interact with them.
Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans
Author | : Bernice Bovenkerk,Jozef Keulartz |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2016-09-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783319442068 |
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This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.
Crossing Boundaries
Author | : Lynda Birke,Jo Hockenhull |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-08-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004231450 |
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Contributors to this book consider how researchers study human-animal relationships, focussing on the methodologies they use, and how these might give new insights into how humans relate to animal kind.
Beyond Boundaries
Author | : Barbara Noske |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015041282461 |
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Beyond Boundaries steps out into hitherto unknown territory in taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of animals: the author criticizes the biological determinism characteristic of many biologists as well as the anthropocentrism of many environmentalists and 'greens' who fail to see domestic animals or even humans as part of 'nature.' Vast in its scope and vision, this book synthesizes an array of disparate research and scholarship and in doing so exposes the tensions and inconsistencies in the view of animals in different areas of Western thought. A project of such breadth is unprecedented and there is no existing conceptual structure for a work of this kind: it is certain to spark a furore of philosophical debate.