Language, ethics and animal life : Wittgenstein and beyond / edited by Niklas Forsberg, Mikel Burley and Nora Hamalainen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forsberg, Niklas.

Burley, Mikel.

Hämäläinen, Nora.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology are among the factors that have made our relationship to animals an area of burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume explore this area in a variety of ways. Topics discussed include: scientific vs. non-scientific ways of describing human and animal behaviour; the ethics of eating particular animal species; human nature, emotions, a

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Different Forms of Forms of Life: A Philosophical Introduction Niklas Forsberg; 1. Three examples; 2. Philosophical drama and argumentation; 3. Different forms of forms of life; 1 Humanizing Nonhumans: Ape Language Research as Critique of Metaphysics Pär Segerdahl; 1. Introduction; 2. Comparative psychology as metaphysical endeavour; 3. Human-enculturated apes; 4. The 'Nim prejudice' about enculturation; 5. Young bonobo Kanzi and his human mother Sue; 6. Wittgenstein's children; 7. Savage-Rumbaugh's apes

8. How an ape learns to use the word 'monster' 9. Home taking precedence over lab; 10. Can enculturated apes point?; 2 Ethics and Language: What we Owe to Speakers David Cockburn; 3 The Difficulty of Language: Wittgenstein on Animals and Humans Nancy E. Baker; 1. Behaviour; 2. Animal and human behaviour: Some similarities; 3. Animal and human behaviour: Some differences; 4. Differences of degree; 5. Other minds, animal and human; 6. Nothing lacking; 7. Whose 'anthropomorphism'?

4 Rape among Scorpion flies, Spouse Abuse among the Praying Mantis and Other 'Reproductive Strategies' in the Animal and Human World Olli Lagerspetz 1. Evolutionary psychology: Proximate versus ultimate levels of explanation; 2. The praying mantis: Complicity or conflict?; 3. The concept of reproductive strategy; 4. Rape as a reproductive strategy; 5. The identification of behaviour: Why 'rape'?; 6. Peter Winch on the identification of behaviour; 7. Rationalism, anthropomorphism and the human animal; 5 Three Perspectives on Altruism Ylva Gustafsson; 1. Introduction

2. Tooby and Cosmides on altruism as a transaction 3. Frans de Waal and Adam Smith on our natural social being; 4. Sympathy, empathy and analogical imagination; 5. Eating; 6. The idea of choice; 6 Talking about Emotions Camilla Kronqvist; 7 Man as a Moral Animal: Moral Language-Games, Certainty and the Emotions Julia Hermann; 1. Introduction; 2. Moral language-games; 3. Empirical certainty; 4. Moral certainty; 5. Moral competence and its emotional components; 6. Moral learning; 7. The role of animals in moral education; 8. Something 'animal' in human morality; 9. Conclusion

8 Living with Animals, Living as an Animal Anne Le Goff 1. Costello's example; 2. Speaking animals and 'mere' animals; 3. Living animals; 9 What's Wrong with a Bite of Dog? Rami Gudovitch; 1. Approaches to morality; 2. Attitudes to animals; 3. The Preferential View; 4. Impartialist worries; 5. Attitudes versus opinions; 6. Pets and persons; 7. Back to the everyday; 10 Second Nature and Animal Life Stefano Di Brisco; 1. McDowell's Mind and World; 2. McDowell and Diamond on the difference between humans and animals; 3. McDowell and the big questions

11 Wittgenstein, Wonder and Attention to Animals Mikel Burley

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-70084-0

1-4411-6462-6

OCLC:

817899235