ISBN:
9781107420540
,
9781107032606
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
179/.3
Keywords:
Animal rights
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Human beings
;
Human rights
;
Speciesism
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Mensch
;
Tiere
;
Tierrecht
;
Mensch
;
Poppe, Enno 1969- Tier
Abstract:
Experts from a range of disciplines identify the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: between exploitation and respectful coexistence -- Part I Moving beyond speciesism -- 1 Who lives, who dies, and why? -- How speciesism undermines compassionate conservation and social justice -- Against speciesism -- Surprises" in the study of animal sentience: how "low" can we go? -- Tigers in Bangladesh: sentience, euthanasia, and speciesism in the real world -- What if the tigers were ants, fish, birds, or rats? Compassionate conservation to the rescue -- We're cognitive relatives yet moral strangers: matters of mind inform matters of welfare -- Overcoming specious speciesism with compassion and optimism: the need for a new social movement -- First do no harm: the importance of humane education -- 2 The rights of sentient beings -- Moving beyond old and new speciesism -- Old speciesism -- New speciesism -- Non-speciesism -- Conclusion -- 3 Indexically yours -- Why being human is more like being here than like being water -- Does "human" pick out a biological category? -- Essentially human -- Psychological essentialism -- An epistemological puzzle -- Human" as an indexical term -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Apeism and racism -- Reasons and remedies -- Apeism -- What is apeism? -- Apeism is wrong -- Contact -- Contact and racism -- Contact and apeism -- Pessimism about contact -- The Enlightenment Strategy: informing and convincing -- Racism and the Enlightenment Strategy -- Apeism and the Enlightenment Strategy -- Pessimism about the Enlightenment Strategy -- Beyond species categories: individualizing apes -- Beyond racial concepts: individualizing humans -- Individualizing apes -- Grounds for optimism -- Conclusion -- 5 "Race" and species in the post-World War II United Nations discourse on human rights -- All humans equal -- Human exceptionalism in European metaphysics.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: between exploitation and respectful coexistence; Part I Moving beyond speciesism; 1 Who lives, who dies, and why?; How speciesism undermines compassionate conservation and social justice; Against speciesism; ""Surprises"" in the study of animal sentience: how ""low"" can we go?; Tigers in Bangladesh: sentience, euthanasia, and speciesism in the real world; What if the tigers were ants, fish, birds, or rats? Compassionate conservation to the rescue; We're cognitive relatives yet moral strangers: matters of mind inform matters of welfare
Description / Table of Contents:
Overcoming specious speciesism with compassion and optimism: the need for a new social movementFirst do no harm: the importance of humane education; 2 The rights of sentient beings; Moving beyond old and new speciesism; Old speciesism; New speciesism; Non-speciesism; Conclusion; 3 Indexically yours; Why being human is more like being here than like being water; Does ""human"" pick out a biological category?; Essentially human; Psychological essentialism; An epistemological puzzle; ""Human"" as an indexical term; Concluding remarks; 4 Apeism and racism; Reasons and remedies; Apeism
Description / Table of Contents:
What is apeism?Apeism is wrong; Contact; Contact and racism; Contact and apeism; Pessimism about contact; The Enlightenment Strategy: informing and convincing; Racism and the Enlightenment Strategy; Apeism and the Enlightenment Strategy; Pessimism about the Enlightenment Strategy; Beyond species categories: individualizing apes; Beyond racial concepts: individualizing humans; Individualizing apes; Grounds for optimism; Conclusion; 5 ""Race"" and species in the post-World War II United Nations discourse on human rights; All humans equal; Human exceptionalism in European metaphysics
Description / Table of Contents:
The ""new synthesis"" of evolutionary biology and geneticsThe repudiation of biology in cultural anthropology; People are not ""animals""; The Great Ape Project; Ritual recognition; Conclusion; 6 Addressing the animal-industrial complex; A techno-capitalist imaginary; What is the animal-industrial complex?; Four other ""complexes""; The politics of food; The three meanings of ""complex""; Pointers for future research; Conclusion; Part II Sentience and agency; 7 Humans, dolphins, and moral inclusivity; Cetacean brains and psychology; The massive cetacean brain; The ""new"" cetacean cortex
Description / Table of Contents:
Dolphin intelligenceSocial complexity and culture; Human abuses of cetaceans; Dolphins and whales as food and bycatch; Dolphins and whales in research; Dolphins and whales in the military; Dolphins as entertainment; Dolphins as ""therapists""; The effects of captivity on dolphins and whales; Aberrant behavior; Stress and disease; Mortality; A challenge to moral inclusivity; 8 The expression of grief in monkeys, apes, and other animals; Defining grief; What isn't grief?; Grief and great ape welfare; Beyond speciesism; The future of grief research; 9 Great ape mindreading; What's at stake?
Description / Table of Contents:
The benefits of mindreading
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