Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

by Gary Steiner

Book Overview

Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc Hauser, Daniel Dennett, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, among others, Steiner shows how the Western philosophical tradition has forced animals into human experiential categories in order to make...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114234X
• ISBN13: 9780231142342
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher