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A History of Hunting and Hunting Perceptions
The purposes of our second chapter are to provide a summary of hunting’s historical role and show how attitudes toward hunting have evolved. Our goal...
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The Logic of Nonpersons
This chapter addresses the question of how one can extend the notion of person to sentient creatures who are not adult humans but do show signs of...
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The Unfolding of Life: The Genetic Endowment
This Chapter describes in the first-person language the experience of an example of analogical, emergent interspecies communication; it then...
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Rorty on Realism, Antirealism,and Antirepresentationalism
The chapter reconstructs Rorty’s dismissal of realist positions in epistemology and semantics, his reframing of the realist claim that the world is...
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Is Metalinguistic Usage a Conversational Implicature?
I argue against the view that metalinguistic usage is a form of conversational implicature. That view, suggested by Thomasson (Anal Philos...
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Develo** Political Realism: Some Ideas from Classical China
While most discussions of political realism in the West draw their inspiration from thinkers such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Hobbes, they were...
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Philosophy and its children: logic, computation, and the emergence of natural and social science
The middle chapters of Soames’s The World Philosophy Made (comprising his accounts of developments in logic, computation, linguistics, probability and...
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The Zhuangzi and Wei-** Xuanxue
As is understood in modern scholarship, Xuanxue (Dark Learning) refers to the philosophies embedded in Wang Bi’s 王弼 (226–249 CE) commentaries on the...
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Limitation and Nature: The Philosophy of Guo **ang
Guo ** reign of the Wei Dynasty...
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Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950
Masui Kiyoshi (1887–1981), a prominent Japanese geneticist, is best known for inventing the sex-sorting method of chicks and his contributions to...
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Transformational Approaches: Equine Speciesism
By exploring the various approaches that artists employed to represent the equine species, Chapter Four will seek to identify how donkeys have been...
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The Glacier and Me: Understanding the Human Being in the Anthropocene
In this chapter, I will contemplate a new understanding of the human being that is needed in times of the Anthropocene. An understanding of the human...
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Rites Versus Nature: On the Difference Between Xunzi and Zhuangzi on Motivation of Action
Both Xunzi 荀子 and Zhuangzi 莊子 conceive tian 天 (heaven) as non-purposive and use the word tian to denote natural phenomena as well as the inborn...
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Treatment and Accountability
Our attitudes to wrongdoers, and what social and institutional practices we apply to them or engage them in, depend on whether (in our eyes) they are...
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Phenotype then Gene
The theory of evolution of novelty by genetic mutation and reproductive isolation is challenged by concepts such as environmentally triggered traits,...
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Animal
The question remains controversial as to when the Anthropocene actually began: with the use of fire, with the Neolithic Revolution, or with...
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Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering
The collapse of society is inevitable, even if it is in the distant future. When it collapses, it is likely to do so within the lifetimes of some...
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The Semiotic Approach
The success of communication in the code model depends on the transmission of information from a source to a receiver. The possibility of such a...
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Instigators of Experimental Artwork: Resonances of Jane Addams in Arts Education
Jane Addams’s use ofArtsarts education experimentalismExperimentalism as a methodology undertaken at Hull House is reflected in her collaborative...