"What is an Animal? A Philosophical Reflection on the Possibility of a Moral Relationship with Animals"
Hub Zwart reflects on the possibility of a moral relationship with animals.
Hub Zwart reflects on the possibility of a moral relationship with animals.
Keekok Lee discusses why posing the question “what is an animal?” is neither irrelevant nor futile.
Clare Palmer discusses the concept of the domesticated animal contract.
Sarah Franklin introduces the term ‘breedwealth’ to examine Dolly as a unique form of property in order to make some of these connections more visible.
Kerry H. Whiteside discusses Arendtian ecology.
Stan Godlovitch examines “aesthetic offenses” against nature.
Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.
Jay Appleton addresses the apparent difficulty experienced by philosophers in applying the methodology of art criticism to the aesthetics of nature and uses the idea of “narrative” to explore it.
Ronald Hepburn discusses the aesthetic appreciation of nature, arguing that not all humanising falsifies, and that we can respect nature as well as annex its forms and expressive qualities in our aesthetic appreciation.