Animals and the moral community : mental life, moral status, and kinship

著者

    • Steiner, Gary

書誌事項

Animals and the moral community : mental life, moral status, and kinship

Gary Steiner

Columbia University Press, c2008

  • : cloth
  • : ebook

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-201) and index

収録内容

  • Arguments against rationality in animals
  • Arguments for rationality in animals
  • An associationist model of animal cognition
  • Liberal individualism and the problem of animal rights
  • The ideal of cosmic holism
  • "Cosmo-politics" : grounding liberal individualism in cosmic holism

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780231142342

内容説明

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 human beings. Instead, he offers an associationist view of animal cognition in which animals grasp and adapt to their environments without employing concepts or intentionality. Steiner challenges the standard assumption of liberal individualism according to which humans have no obligations of justice toward animals. Instead, he advocates a "cosmic holism" that attributes a moral status to animals equivalent to that of people. Arguing for a relationship of justice between humans and nature, Steiner emphasizes our kinship with animals and the fundamental moral obligations entailed by this kinship.

目次

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Arguments Against Rationality in Animals 2. Arguments for Rationality in Animals 3. An Associationist Model of Animal Cognition 4. Liberal Individualism and the Problem of Animal Rights 5. The Ideal of Cosmic Holism 6. "Cosmo-Politics": Grounding Liberal Individualism in Cosmic Holism Notes Bibliography Index
巻冊次

: ebook ISBN 9780231512602

内容説明

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 human beings. Instead, he offers an associationist view of animal cognition in which animals grasp and adapt to their environments without employing concepts or intentionality. Steiner challenges the standard assumption of liberal individualism according to which humans have no obligations of justice toward animals. Instead, he advocates a "cosmic holism" that attributes a moral status to animals equivalent to that of people. Arguing for a relationship of justice between humans and nature, Steiner emphasizes our kinship with animals and the fundamental moral obligations entailed by this kinship.

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