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:: ESSAYS ON THE HUMAN/OTHER ANIMAL RELATIONSHIP

COMPARATIVE PHYSIOGNOMY, OR RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN MEN AND ANIMALS. - James W. Redfield
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 CORRESPONDENCES OF THE BIBLE: THE ANIMALS - John Worcester
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GRATEFUL PREY, ROCK CREE HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS - Robert Brightman
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HUMAN BEASTS OF PREY AND FELLOW-SUFFERING - Richard Wagner
In order to steel themselves against the power of fellow-suffering, people commonly assert that it is demonstrably the case that lower natures feel suffering far less keenly than a higher organism

HUMANS, NONHUMANS AND PERSONHOOD - Robert W. Mitchell
I consider the question of personhood from a particular philosophical position in relation to nonhumans in general, and then discuss implications of my findings for the proposal.

INFERNAL OR DIVINE?FELINES IN THE EYES OF HUMANS - Taleva, Mirka
Human-feline co-existence has been quite versatile. The relationship has seen probably everything a human-other species relationship may ever encounter...

LAW IS AN ASS: READING E.P. EVANS' THE MEDIEVAL PROSECUTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS (THE) - Beirne, Piers
My focus is not crimes committed by humans against animals, as such, but a practical outcome of the seemingly bizarre belief that animals are capable of committing crimes against humans...

METAPHORIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH PETS - Belk, Russell W.
The predominant metaphors that emerge in pet owners' relationships with their animals are pets as pleasures, problems, parts of self, members of the family, and toys...

PERSONS AND NON-PERSONS - Mary Midgley
Is a dolphin a person? It is an interesting question for a number of reasons, and I want to devote most of this chapter to interpreting it and tracing its connection with several others which may already be of concern to us.

THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY - James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (editors)
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THE CONCEPT OF BEASTLINESS: PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - Mary Midgley
Every age has its pet contradictions. Thirty years ago, we used to accept Marx and Freud together, and then wonder, like the chameleon on the tartan, why life was so confusing.

THE POST-DARWINIAN TRANSITION - David Pearce
The pervasive assumption is simply that animal suffering doesn't really matter much compared to the things that happen to human beings - to us.

 

 


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