Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

by Gary Steiner

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:023114234X

ISBN13:9780231142342

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Nature Philosophy Psychology

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