Beastly morality : animals as ethical agents / edited by Jonathan K. Crane.

Date:
[2016]
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"Envisioning nonhuman animals as distinct moral agents marks a paradigm shift in animal studies. Drawing on ethics, religion, philosophy, law, ethology, and cognitive science, the essays in this collection test long-held certainties about moral boundaries and behaviors and prove that nonhuman animals possess complex reasoning capacities, sophisticated empathic sociality, and dynamic and enduring self-conceptions. Rather than claim animal morality is the same as human morality, this book builds an appreciation of the variety and character of animal moral sensitivities and perceptions across multiple disciplines, moving animal welfarism in promising new directions."--The publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Physical description

xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Beastly morality: a twisting tale / Jonathan K. Crane -- The Permeability of morality. De-humanizing morality / Kendy Hess -- HumAnI(m)Morality / Sean Meighoo -- Not all dogs go to heaven: Judaism's lessons in beastly morality / Mark Goldfeder -- Observing animal morality. Animal empathy as moral building block / Frans B. M. de Waal -- Humans, other animals, and the biology of morality / Elisabetta Palagi -- Moral mutts: social play, fairness, and wild justice / Marc Bekoff -- Fighting fair: the ecology of honor in humans and animals / Dan Demetriou -- Reading Animal morality. Reading, teaching insects: ant society as pedagogical device in Rabbinic literature / Harrison King -- Jakushin's dogs and the goodness of animals: preaching the moral life of beasts in medieval Japanese tale literature / Michael Bathgate -- Reconceiving animal morality. Just Chimpanzees? A Thomistic perspective on ethics in nonhuman species / John Berkman -- Brutal justice? Animal litigation and the question of countertradition / Jonathan K. Crane and Aaron S. Gross -- Epilogue. Beastly morality: untangling possibilities / Jonathan K. Crane, Ani B. Satz, Lori Marino, and Cynthia Willett.

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  • 9780231174169 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231174160 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231174176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0231174179 (pbk. : alk. paper)