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Minding Animals

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Author : Marc Bekoff
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-02

Minding Animals written by Marc Bekoff and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-02 with Science categories.

Thinking bees, ice-skating buffaloes, dreaming rats, happy foxes, ecstatic elephants, despondent dolphins--in Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe--from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Antarctica. He draws on this vast experience, as well as on the observations of other naturalists, to offer readers fascinating stories of animal behavior, including grooming and gossip, self-medication, feeding patterns, dreaming, dominance, and mating behavior. Many of these stories are truly incredible--chimpanzees medicating themselves with herbal remedies, elephants clearly mourning a dead group member--but this is not simply a catalog of amazing animal tales, for Bekoff also sheds light on many of the more serious issues surrounding animals. He offers a thought-provoking look at animal cognition, intelligence, and consciousness and he presents vivid examples of animal passions, highlighting the deep emotional lives of our animal kin. All this serves as background for his thoughtful conclusions about humility and animal protection and animal well-being, where he urges a new paradigm of respect, grace, compassion, and love for all animals. Marc Bekoff has gone deep into the minds, hearts, spirits, and souls of animals, giving him profound insight into their lives, and no small insight into ours. Minding Animals is an important contribution to our understanding of animal consciousness, a major work that will be a must read for anyone who loves nature.

Minding Animals

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Author : Marc Bekoff
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2003-06-05

Minding Animals written by Marc Bekoff and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-05 with Science categories.

In Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe—from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Antarctica. He draws on this vast experience, as well as on the observations of other naturalists, to offer readers fascinating stories of animal behavior, including grooming and gossip, feeding patterns, dreaming, dominance, and mating behavior. He offers a thought-provoking look at animal cognition, intelligence, and consciousness and he presents vivid examples of animal passions, highlighting the deep emotional lives of our animal kin. All this serves as background for his thoughtful conclusions about humility and animal protection and animal well-being, where he urges a new paradigm of respect, grace, compassion, and love for all animals. Minding Animals is an important contribution to our understanding of animal consciousness, a major work that will be a must read for anyone who loves nature. "To find out about the rich emotional life of nonhuman species, read Minding Animals."—-Natural History

Minding Animals In The Old And New Worlds

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Author : Steven Wagschal
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-10-16

Minding Animals In The Old And New Worlds written by Steven Wagschal and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.

Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds employs current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition to explore how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the early modern period. Using texts from European and Indigenously-informed sources, Steven Wagschal argues that people tend to conceptualize the minds of animals in ways that reflect their own uses for the animal, the manner in which they interact with the animal, and the place in which the animal lives. Often this has little if anything to do with the actual cognitive abilities of the animal. However, occasionally early authors made surprisingly accurate assumptions about the thoughts and feelings of animals. Wagschal explores a number of ways in which culture and human cognition interact, including: the utility of anthropomorphism; the symbolic use of animals in medieval Christian texts; attempts at understanding the minds of animals in Spain's early modern farming and hunting books; the effect of novelty on animal conceptualizations in "New World" histories, and how Cervantes navigated the forms of anthropomorphism that preceded him to create the first embodied animal minds in fiction.

Minding Animals

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Author : Marc Bekoff
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-02

Relations Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 1 June 2014

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Author : AA. VV.
language : en
Publisher: LED Edizioni Universitarie
Release Date : 2015-05-13T00:00:00+02:00

Relations Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 1 June 2014 written by AA. VV. and has been published by LED Edizioni Universitarie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 with Nature categories.

Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism is a peer-refereed journal of trans-anthropocentric ethics and related inquires. The main aim of the journal is to create a professional interdisciplinary forum in Europe to discuss moral and scientific issues that concern the increasing need of going beyond narrow anthropocentric paradigms in all fields of knowledge. The journal accepts submissions on all topics which promote European research adopting a non-anthropocentric ethical perspective on both interspecific and intraspecific relationships between all life species – humans included – and between these and the abiotic environment.

Relations Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 2 November 2014

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Author : AA. VV.
language : en
Publisher: LED Edizioni Universitarie
Release Date : 2015-05-13T00:00:00+02:00

Relations Beyond Anthropocentrism 2 2 November 2014 written by AA. VV. and has been published by LED Edizioni Universitarie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 with Nature categories.

Relations 2 1 June 2014

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Author : Rod Bennison
language : en
Publisher: LED Edizioni Universitarie
Release Date : 2014-06-17

Relations 2 1 June 2014 written by Rod Bennison and has been published by LED Edizioni Universitarie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Table of Contents: Minding Animals. Editorial, Rod Bennison, Alma Massaro, Jessica Ullrich - Animal Deaths on Screen: Film & Ethics, Barbara Creed - Learning about the emotional lives of kangaroos, cognitive justice and environmental sustainability, Steve Garlick, Rosemary Austen - Captivating Creatures: Zoos, Marketing, and the Commercial Success of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Tanja Schwalm - The Multi-dimensional Donkey in Landscapes of Donkey-Human Interaction, Stephen Blakeway - Mind the gap! Musicians challenging limits of birdsong knowledge, Susanne Heiter - A clinical perspective on ‘theory of mind’, empathy and altruism: the hypothesis of somasia, Jean-Michel Le Bot - The spontaneous horse, Francesco De Giorgio, Jose Schoorl - Antispeciesisms, Alma Massaro - The Challenges of Technoscience for Critical animal studies, Marcel Sebastian - On dolphin personhood, Jessica Ullrich - Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals, Corey Lee Wrenn

Minding Dogs

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Author : Michele Merritt
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-04-01

Minding Dogs written by Michele Merritt and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Nature categories.

While the past decade has seen a surge of research regarding canine cognition, this newfound interest has not caught the attention of many philosophers. Studies pertaining to dog minds have been pouring out of canine cognition labs all over the world, but they remain relatively ensconced within the scientific, sociological, and anthropological communities, and very little philosophical thought on dog cognition exists. Philosophers certainly have not shied away from theorizing about the nature of nonhuman animal cognition generally. Theories range from Cartesian disavowal of all nonhuman intelligence to arguments that even fish have complex minds and therefore humans should not eat them. Serious philosophical considerations about dogs and their relationship to humans, however, remain incredibly rare. Even less common, if not entirely nonexistent, is a critical examination of the question “What are dogs thinking?” and what asking and attempting to answer this question reveals, not so much about dogs, but about us. With Minding Dogs Michele Merritt attempts to fill two significant gaps in the philosophy of animal cognition. First, she adds to the growing discussion on canine cognition, which has been overlooked until recently and requires more consideration. Second, she takes seriously our dynamic collaborations with our canine friends as crucial to understanding both their minds and our own.

Globalization And Animal Law

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Author : Thomas G. Kelch
language : en
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Release Date : 2017-05-01

Globalization And Animal Law written by Thomas G. Kelch and has been published by Kluwer Law International B.V. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with Law categories.

The rise of the globalized economy has rendered an even more profound change in the relationship between humans and other animals than the ancient progression from huntergatherer to agricultural society. In today’s global markets, multinational corporations exploit the economic value of animals throughout the world on an unprecedented scale. The philosophical and legal notions that animals are mere unfeeling machines or pieces of property, although more or less taken for granted for centuries, has been challenged, if not burst asunder, in recent decades (in law, moral philosophy, and cognitive and other sciences), and regulation of the treatment of animals in agriculture, experimentation, entertainment and other areas has begun to make substantial inroads in national and international law. This book provides a detailed analysis of international and comparative animal law focusing on the impact of today’s globalized economy on animal law. Describing a wide range of domestic and international laws relating to the treatment of animals, the author explicates the sorts of legal rules which affect the global animal marketplace. Representative norms in existing animal protection laws are analyzed and critiqued, illustrating the diverse approaches taken by different countries and by the international community in regulating uses of animals. Among the issues covered are the following: - contemporary philosophical thought on the relationship between humans and animals; - recent scientific research relating to cognitive and other abilities of animals; - legal issues relating to factory farming and animal slaughter; - legal protection of animals during transport; - regulatory schemes on animal experimentation; - laws on the use of animals in entertainment; - laws on protection of companion animals; - regulation of trade in endangered species; - international trade issues relating to animals, including consideration of the provisions of GATT and the seminal WTO/GATT decisions in the Tuna/Dolphin, Shrimp/Turtle, Tuna Labeling and EU/Seal Products cases; - constitutional protection for the interests of animals; - intellectual property law issues relating to animals; - efforts to have the legal “personhood” of certain animals judicially recognized; and - what the future may hold for animal law in the global economy. To ensure the consideration of a full range of legal approaches, the laws analyzed come from a wide variety of countries and jurisdictions, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, the EU, Germany, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK, and state and federal laws of the US. Numerous international treaties and conventions relevant to animal treatment and animal law are also covered, including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the CITES Convention, the European Convention for the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes, the European Patent Convention, the GATT Treaty, the TRIPS Agreement and the Universal Copyright Convention. It is not difficult to grasp, given the continuing increases in production, consumption and use of animals and animal products worldwide, that legal initiatives in this often emotional and acrimonious area of law are frequently contentious and hard fought. But this is really just the dawn of animal law, which has only recently become recognized as an important cutting-edge topic, and this area of the law promises to develop rapidly in the future. This book is enormously valuable in contributing to the continuing development and understanding of this law, clearly laying out the contours and boundaries of existing animal laws in our global economy, and allowing legal educators, concerned lawyers and policymakers to teach, formulate proposals, argue cases and defenses, and secure a firm purchase on future trends and developments in animal law.

Thinking Animals

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Author : Paul Shepard
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1998

Thinking Animals written by Paul Shepard and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Science categories.

In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination. This trait, he argues, compels us to think of animals in order to be human. Without other living species by which to measure ourselves, Shepard warns, we would be less mature, care less for and be more careless of all life, including our own kind.

Minding Animals

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