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Zusatztext I would strongly recommend this book ... to those who are studying animal behaviour and to those who are working on ethics and moral status of animals. Informationen zum Autor Mark Rowlands is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of fourteen books, translated into more than twenty languages. His autobiography, The Philosopher and the Wolf was published in 2008, and became an international bestseller. Klappentext Can animals act morally? Philosophical tradition answers 'no,' and has apparently convincing arguments on its side. Cognitive ethology supplies a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests these arguments are wrong. This groundbreaking book assimilates both philosophical and ethological frameworks into a unified whole and argues for a qualified 'yes.' Zusammenfassung Can animals act morally? Philosophical tradition answers 'no,' and has apparently convincing arguments on its side. Cognitive ethology supplies a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests these arguments are wrong. This groundbreaking book assimilates both philosophical and ethological frameworks into a unified whole and argues for a qualified 'yes.' Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Can Animals be Moral? 2. Attributing Emotions to Animals 3. Moral Agents, Patients, and Subjects 4. The Reflection Condition: Aristotle and Kant 5. The Idiot 6. The Phenomenology of Moral Motivation 7. Moral Motivation and Meta-Cognition 8. Moral Reasons and Practice 9. Reconstructing Normativity and Agency 10. A Cognitive Ethologist from Mars
