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Author : Susan D. Jones
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 290/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Valuing Animals by : Susan D. Jones
Download or read book Valuing Animals written by Susan D. Jones. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both controversial and compelling, Valuing Animals uncovers the extent to which veterinary medicine has shaped--and been shaped by--this contradictory attitude.
Author : Susan D. Jones
Release : 2003
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Valuing Animals by : Susan D. Jones
Download or read book Valuing Animals written by Susan D. Jones. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both controversial and compelling, Valuing Animals uncovers the extent to which veterinary medicine has shaped--and been shaped by--this contradictory attitude.
Author : Christine Marion Korsgaard
Release : 2018
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 853/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fellow Creatures by : Christine Marion Korsgaard
Download or read book Fellow Creatures written by Christine Marion Korsgaard. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a compelling new view of our moral relationships to the other animals
Author : Kristof Dhont
Release : 2019-11-08
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why We Love and Exploit Animals by : Kristof Dhont
Download or read book Why We Love and Exploit Animals written by Kristof Dhont. This book was released on 2019-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world’s leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.
Author : Leena Vilkka
Release : 1997
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 255/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Intrinsic Value of Nature by : Leena Vilkka
Download or read book The Intrinsic Value of Nature written by Leena Vilkka. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering study of the philosophy of nature-conservation in relation to the discussion of intrinsic value. Vilkka develops a naturalistic or naturocentric theory of value that is based on ethical extensionism and pluralism. Vilkka analyzes natural values and environmental attitudes: zoocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism. This book forms a taxonomy for nature having intrinsic value. The theory of intrinsic value is based on naturocentric and naturogenic values. The book questions the thesis of weak anthropocentrism that denies the existence of naturogenic values. In Vilkka's theory, animals and nature are the origin of value. She defends the existence of zoogenic and biogenic values in the non-human world and discusses the possibility of ecogenic value, nature as a whole having value independent of human or animal minds. Vilkka analyzes the goodness and rights of nature, the problem of priorities, and ecological humanism. A naturocentric recommendation is that the well-being of animals and nature should have priority over human values at least in some real decision contexts. Ecological humanism recommends an attitude of respect for people, animals, and nature. The book includes an extensive glossary, index, and bibliography.
