The Human Animal
Author : Desmond Morris
Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781856950480
Author : Desmond Morris
Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781856950480
Author : Phil Donahue
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780671546960
Index. Based on a five part NBC television series hosted by the author.
Author : I. Robinson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1483280098
The Waltham Book of Human-Animal Interaction: Benefits and Responsibilities of Pet Ownership discusses the scientific study of the relationship between man and animals, focusing on the behavior of companion animals, and how humans and animals affect each other's behavior. This first half of this book discusses research on benefits that have been found to accumulate from associations with animals, and the role of animals in care and therapy program. The responsibilities toward the animals kept, and how to enhance their care and welfare are considered in the next chapters. The human response to pet loss is also elaborated. This publication is beneficial to veterinary students and individuals concerned with the study of human-animal interactions.
Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0231152957
This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.
Author : Hans Hass
Publisher : New York : Putnam
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Human behavior
ISBN :
Author : Tess Martin
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Alternative histories (Fiction)
ISBN : 9780990629504
In a dystopian future, the government is overthrown and the new order protects animal rights with a heavy handed brutality. Consuming meat has become illegal and the agency tasked with enforcing the law is given free reign to do as they see fit. One experienced agent has a life changing encounter that shakes his core and forces him to examine his life while putting him at risk for becoming the target of his own organization.
Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525562710
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Author : Eric T. Olson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198026471
Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically non-psychological account of personal identity. He defines human beings as biological organisms, and claims that no psychological relation is either sufficient or necessary for an organism to persist. Rejecting several famous thought experiments dealing with personal identity, he instead argues that one could survive the destruction of all of one's psychological contents and capabilities as long as the human organism remains alive.
Author : Mario Wenning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 149855783X
Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans.. This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the questions “What is human?” and “What is animal?” What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism. It is the first collection that establishes a productive encounter between philosophical perspectives on the human–animal boundary and those that draw on fictional literature. The objective is to establish a dialogue between those disciplines with the goal of expanding the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships. The contributions thus do not only trace and deconstruct the boundaries dividing humans and nonhuman animals, they also present the reader with alternative perspectives on the porous continuum and surprising reversal of what appears as human and what as nonhuman.
Author : Charles Kovacs
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1782506985
This is a resource book for teaching about animals in comparison to human beings. It is recommended for Classes 4 and 5 (age 9 to 11) in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum. Charles Kovacs taught in Edinburgh so there is a Scottish flavour to the animals discussed in the first half of the book, including seals, red deer and eagles. In the later chapters, he covers elephants, horses and bears.