Animal minds & animal ethics : connecting two separate fields /

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Imprint:Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Human-animal studies
Human-animal studies (Series : Bielefeld, Germany)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12869606
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Varying Form of Title:Animal minds and animal ethics
Other authors / contributors:Petrus, Klaus, 1967- editor.
Wild, Markus, editor.
ISBN:9783839424629
3839424623
9783837624625
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 12, 2015).
Summary:Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers interested in the question of animal minds sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition.