Animals : a history / Peter Adamson and G. Fay Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamson, Peter, 1972- editor.

Edwards, G. Fay, editor.

Series:

Oxford philosophical concepts.

Oxford philosophical concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

It is commonly assumed that serious philosophical reflection on animals goes back only a few hundred years, to the Utilitarians or to the rise of Darwinism. This volume shows that, to the contrary, animals have been a subject of controversy and reflection in all periods of the history of philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Adamson

Aristotle on animals / Devin Henry

Reincarnation, rationality, and temperance : Platonists on not eating animals / G. Fay Edwards

Listening to Aesop's animals / Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Illuminating thought : animals in classical Indian thought / Amber D. Carpenter

The joy of fish and Chinese animal painting / Hou-Mei Sung

Human and animal nature in the philosophy of the Islamic world / Peter Adamson

Of rainbow snakes and baffling buffalo : on a Central African mask / Allen F. Roberts

Marking the boundaries : animals in medieval Latin philosophy / Juhana Toivanen

Animal intelligence : examples of the human-animal border in medieval literature / Sabine Obermaier

Subversive laughter in Reynard the Fox / James Simpson

Animals in the Renaissance : you eat what you are / Cecilia Muratori

Animal souls and beast machines : Descartes's mechanical biology / Deborah J. Brown

Kant on animals / Patrick Kain

The gaze of the ape : Gabriel von Max's Affenmalerei and the question of all questions / Cecilia Muratori

The emergence of the drive concept and the collapse of the animal/human divide / Paul Katsafanas

Governing Darwin's world / Philip Kitcher

Morgan's canon : animal psychology in the twentieth century and beyond / Helen Steward

The contemporary debate in animal ethics / Robert Garner.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-937599-2