Animal Minds & Animal Ethics: Connecting Two Separate Fields

by Klaus Petrus (Editor), Markus Wild (Editor)

Overview

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 sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy.
The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837624625
Publication date:	02/18/2014
Series:	Human-Animal Studies , #3
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Klaus Petrus (PhD) is journalist and co-founder of the METIBE (bureau of human-animal-relation) in Berne, Switzerland.
Markus Wild is professor of philosophy at the University of Basel. He is the author of, among others, »Tierphilosophie« (2008).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Animal Minds and Animal Ethics Klaus Petrus Markus Wild 7

Part 1 Animals, Science and the Moral Community

1 Animal Mind: Science, Philosophy, and Ethics Bernard E. Rollin 15

2 Animal Minds, Cognitive Ethology, and Ethics Colin Allen Marc Bekoff 37

3 A Form of War: Animals, Humans, and the Shifting Boundaries of Community Justin E.H. Smith 59

4 Cognition and Community Gary Steiner 83

Part 2 Animal Autonomy and Its Moral Significance

5 Mental Capacities and Animal Ethics Hans-Johann Glock 113

6 The Question of Belief Attribution in Great Apes Its Moral Significance and Epistemic Problems Robert W. Lurz 147

7 Ape Autonomy?: Social Norms and Moral Agency in Other Species Kristin Andrews 173

8 The Nonhuman Roots of Human Morality Evelyn B. Pluhar 197

Part 3 The Diversity of Animal Ethics

9 Animal Rights: A Non-Consequentalist Approach Uriah Kriegel 231

10 Taking Sentience Seriously Gary L. Francione 249

11 Two Approaches to Animal Ethics and the Case of Great Apes Alessandro Blasimme Constantine Sandis Lisa Bortolotti 269

12 Personhood, Interaction and Skepticism Elisa Aaltola 295

13 Eating and Experimenting on Animals: Two Issues in Ethics Alice Crary 321

Contributors 355