Language, Ethics and Animal Life: Wittgenstein and Beyond

Thirteen scholars from seven countries (Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Sweden, USA, and the UK) discuss humanity's relationship with animals and the natural environment.

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Main Author: Forsberg, Niklas 1972- (Author)
Contributors: Burley, Mikel 1972- (Contributor) ; Hämäläinen, Nora 1978- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Bloomsbury Academic & Professional 2012
In:Year: 2012
Edition:1st ed.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951 / Animals / Philosophy of language
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951
B Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 Philosophy
B Human-animal relationships Philosophy
B Human-animal relationships Moral and ethical aspects
B Animal communication Philosophy
B Wittgenstein, Ludwig ; 1889-1951
B Animal welfare Moral and ethical aspects
B Animal welfare Philosophy
B Ethics
B Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
B Electronic books
B Conference program
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Print version: Language, Ethics and Animal Life: Wittgenstein and Beyond
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Summary:Thirteen scholars from seven countries (Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Sweden, USA, and the UK) discuss humanity's relationship with animals and the natural environment.
Cover -- HalfTitle -- 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 Scorpionflies, 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 identifi cation of behaviour: Why 'rape'? -- 6. Peter Winch on the identifi cation 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.
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ISBN:1441164626