Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self
This book presents a radical and intuitive argument against the notion that intentional action, agency and autonomy are features belonging only to humans. Using evidence from research into the minds of non-human animals, it explores the ways in which anim
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The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Series Editors Andrew Linzey Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Oxford, United Kingdom Priscilla Cohn Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA
Aims of the Series In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ethics of our treatment of animals. Philosophers have led the way, and now a range of other scholars have followed from historians to social scientists. From being a marginal issue, animals have become an emerging issue in ethics and in multidisciplinary inquiry. This series will explore the challenges that Animal Ethics poses, both conceptually and practically, to traditional understandings of human-animal relations. Specifically, the Series will: • provide a range of key introductory and advanced texts that map out ethical positions on animals; • publish pioneering work written by new, as well as accomplished, scholars; • produce texts from a variety of disciplines that are multidisciplinary in character or have multidisciplinary relevance.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14421
Natalie Thomas
Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self
Natalie Thomas Media Studies University of Guelph-Humber Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-1-137-58684-1 ISBN 978-1-137-58685-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58685-8
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For Achilles with endless gratitude for opening up my heart. And for Nigel, Timothy and Lucy, for bringing constant joy into my life.
Series Editors’ Preface
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