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Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers interested in the question of animal minds sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition. »Der Band zeigt, wie sich das dilettantische Zurechtschneidern des Geistes der Tiere verhindern lässt. Die Auswahl der Arbeiten [...] bezeugt das konstruktive Potential der postmodernen Philosophie.« Philipp von Gall, TIERethik, 6/8 (2014) »Ein lesenswertes Buch.« Kochen ohne Knochen, 15/2 (2014) Reviewed in: Fellbeißer, 10 (2013) www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 21.01.2014, Dieter Bach fair-fish, 13.02.2014, Heinzpeter Studer

Ethics; Animal Ethics; Animal Minds; Animal Cognition; Philosophy of Mind; Human-Animal Studies; Animal; Animal Philosophy; Philosophy; Cultural Studies; Human Animal Studies --- Animal Cognition. --- Animal Ethics. --- Animal Minds. --- Animal Philosophy. --- Animal. --- Cultural Studies. --- Human Animal Studies. --- Human-Animal Studies. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophy.

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Dass wir durch Wahrnehmung einen Zugang zur materiellen Welt haben, scheint selbstverständlich zu sein. Und dass die visuelle Wahrnehmung dabei einen prominenten Platz einnimmt, scheint ebenfalls selbstverständlich zu sein. Doch was genau sehen wir: die Gegenstände selbst oder bloß ihre wahrnehmbaren Eigenschaften? Wie gelingt es uns überhaupt, etwas zu sehen? Können wir allein aufgrund von optischen und physiologischen Vorgängen etwas sehen, oder setzt das Sehen bereits Begriffe voraus, mithilfe derer wir etwas als etwas sehen können? Diese Fragen, die in der gegenwärtigen Wahrnehmungs- und Erkenntnistheorie ausgiebig erörtert werden, waren bereits in der Frühen Neuzeit Gegenstand intensiver Debatten. In vielfacher Hinsicht legten die Diskussionen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert sogar die Grundlage für heutige Theorien, da sie zum einen die Probleme in aller Schärfe benannten, zum anderen aber auch Lösungsstrategien vorlegten, die auch heute noch von Bedeutung sind. Der Band soll diese Debatten (von Descartes bis Reid) neu erschließen und einem breiten philosophisch interessierten Publikum zugänglich machen. Es soll gezeigt werden, dass die Frühe Neuzeit kein ehrwürdiges Museum der Philosophiegeschichte ist, sondern eine äußerst produktive und anregende philosophische Epoche, die zu einem Dialog einlädt. It seems to be self-evident that through perception we gain access to the material world. That visual perception takes an important role seems self-evident as well. But what exactly do we see? The objects themselves or just their perceptible properties? How do we manage to see something at all? Are we capable of seeing solely through optical and physiological processes or does viewing something asks for presupposed terms in order to help us to see something as something?These questions, currently discussed at great length within the framework of cognitive and epistemological theory, were already cause for intensive debate in the early modern times. In many aspects, those discussions in the 17th and 18th century laid the groundwork for today's theories: on one hand, they identified the problems with great clarity and on the other, they provided strategies for possible solutions which are still of value today.This volume will provide new access to those debates (from Descartes to Reid) and will present these debates to an audience interested in philosophical questions. The book shows that the early modern times is not just a respectable museum in the history of philosophy, but on the contrary, a very productive and stimulating philosophical epoch which invites further discussion.

Perception (Philosophy) --- Perception (Philosophy) --- Visual perception. --- Mind and reality --- Philosophy, European --- History --- History --- History

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Animals in literature. --- Animals (Philosophy). --- Animals (Philosophy) --- History. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Animals in art --- Animals in literature --- Classical antiquities --- Human-animal relationships --- Metamorphosis --- Embryology --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Animal painting and illustration --- Pets in art --- Wild animals in art --- Zoo animals in art --- Mythology

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Empiricism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Skepticism --- History. --- History