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Pets, People, and Pragmatism (American Philosophy) by Erin McKenna; American Council of Learned Societies is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Pets, People, and Pragmatism (American Philosophy) about?

Pets, People, and Pragmatism examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either benign or unnatural and to be avoided. The book addresses a lack of respect in pet-people relationships; for respectful relationships to be a real possibility, however, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with which we live, work, and play. American pragmatism understands that humans and other animal beings have been interacting and transforming each other for thousands of years. There is nothing "unnatural" about the human domestication of other animal beings, though domestication does raise specific practical and ethical questions. A pragmatist account of our relationship with those animal beings commonly considered as pets does not prohibit the use of these beings in research, entertainment, competition, or work. It does, however, find abuse and neglect ethical. Because abuse can occur in any use of other animal beings, this pragmatist account takes up the abusive practices in research, entertainment, competition, and work without arguing that these practices are inherently abusive. Some of the sources of abuse have been addressed by utilitarian a

Author

Erin McKenna; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Fordham University Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823252398

Subjects

Philosophy, Nature, Humanities

Rating

2 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14