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As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee. -Henry David Thoreau (1980, p. 285) 1 1 Thoreau, H. D. (1980). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Princeton: Princeton University Press. vii Contents Series Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Notes on Contributors xii ix Series Editors' Preface This is a new book series for a new field of inquiry: Animal Ethics. 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. In addition, rethinking the status of animals has been fuelled by a range of scientific investigations that have revealed the complexity of animal sentiency, cognition and awareness. The ethical implications of this new knowledge have yet to be properly evaluated, but it is becoming clear that the old view that animals are mere things, tools, machines or commodities cannot be sustained ethically. But

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Author

Thomas Ryan PhD (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349476077

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Psychology