Humans and Other Animals - Challenging the Boundaries of Humanity

This book examines and challenges the boundaries so often drawn in philosophy, between humans and other animals, drawing on philosophical, legal and scientific perspectives in order to question the legitimacy and utility of such distinctions and thereby to explore the moral and philosophical meanings of humanity and being human.

List of contents

Chimps, Chimeras and Cybrids: Trans-Species Ethical Challenges; Sarah Chan Personhood for Animals; John Harris Genetic Enhancement, Moral Status and Post-Persons; David DeGrazia With Power Comes Responsibility; Lisa Bortolotti Changing Humanity; Peter Lachmann The Beginnings of Morality in Animal Social Instincts; Frans de Waal Solving Momo's Problem: Evolution and the Emergence of Windows to the Mind; Juan Carlos Gomez Animals, Humans and Moral Judgment; Matteo Mameli What or Who is Human? A Conundrum for the Law; Margaret Brazier and Sara Fovargue

About the author

Sarah Chan is Deputy Director of The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation and a Research Fellow in Bioethics and Law at the University of Manchester, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Sarah Chan, Sarah Chan
• Assisted by: Sarah Chan (Editor), John Harris (Editor), John Sulston (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.04.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9781780932187
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-218-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Science Ethics and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Animals & society, Animals and society, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge