Planning for the Future: Do Animals Have a Time-relative Interest in Continuing to Live? - Couverture souple

Selter, Felicitas

 
9783957431776: Planning for the Future: Do Animals Have a Time-relative Interest in Continuing to Live?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3957431778 ISBN 13 : 9783957431776
Editeur : Brill Mentis, 2020

Synopsis

Are animals mentally stuck in the present, unable to think beyond the here and now, or are they mental time travelers, capable of planning ahead in time? And why should this matter to us?
"Planning for the Future" provides a thorough conceptual clarification of the most important but ambiguously used concepts in the debate and differentiates between two types of planning. In analyzing several influential studies with birds and apes, the book concludes that there is indeed evidence for anticipatory planning in some animals, but not for strategic planning so far. In a chapter of its own, ethical consequences regarding the wrongness of killing animals from utilitarian and animal rights perspectives are laid out. Do at least some animals have a strong interest in continuing to live? Should they even be ascribed with a right not to be killed? And why might the awareness of our own mortality hinder us in finding answers?

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Éditeur
Brill Mentis
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3957431778
ISBN 13 
9783957431776
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
276
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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