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Debates on humanization of human-animal brain chimeras – are we putting the cart before the horses?
Research on human-animal chimeras have elicited alarms and prompted debates. Those involving the generation of chimeric brains, in which human brain...
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Trojan Horses and Black Queens: ‘causal core’ explanations in microbiome research
Lynch et al., in an article in this issue, argue that an entire microbiome is rarely, if ever, the right target of analysis for causal explanations...
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A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China
Horses were a military necessity and an economic problem for the Ming dynasty. After conquering China from the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the new rulers...
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Reevaluating Dignāga’s Apoha Theory: As Revealed by Bhāviveka’s Critique
Pramāṇavādins are antirealists on the problem of universals by virtue of the fact that they deny the existence of real universals. Dignāga,...
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Anne Conway on Substance and Individuals
Anne Conway (1631–1679) is sometimes said to be a Monist. I present several kinds of Monism and then investigate whether any of these adequately...
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Equine Driving: Plato, Kant and Fichte on the Teamwork of the Mind
The chapter places the recourse to the concept of drive in the accounts of practical subjectivity in Fichte into the historical and systematic...
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Crusading and Dying for Christ
Despite the revival of classical philosophy, Bernard of Clairvaux and other high mediaeval theologians endorse the biblical ethos of fear and the...
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Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship
This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective...
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The Debate over **ng in the Outer Chapters of the Zhuangzi
Contemporary discussions of xing are often inspired by the Confucian tradition, but recent studies have brought the Zhuangzi 莊子 to the table as a...
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For a Definition of Hyperbola on the Scene of Ancient Greek Theater: Situations and Lexicon
This contribution intends to focus on the presence of hyperbola in a series of texts that are part of ancient Greek theater, both tragic and comic....
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Qualification in Philosophy
Qualifiers such as “insofar as” and “in itself” have always been important ingredients in key philosophical claims. Descartes, for instance, famously...
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Horses Left Behind in the Exclusion Zone
This chapter “Horses Left Behind in the Exclusion Zone” examines the fate of about 370 horses in the Sōma region in Fukushima prefecture, 20 miles...
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Interspecies Haptic Sociality: The Interactional Constitution of the Horse’s Esthesiologic Body in Equestrian Activities
This article explores forms of haptic sociality in interspecies interaction. Data examined are taken from a corpus of equine assisted therapy...
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Quiddities and repeatables: towards a tripartite analysis of simple predicative statements
I argue that a tripartite analysis of simple statements such as “Bucephalus is a horse”, according to which they divide into two terms and a copula,...
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Truth and the way in Xúnzǐ
This essay argues that the third-century BC Ruist “masters” text Xúnzǐ presents a sophisticated approach to semantics and epistemology in which a...
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Are Animals Needed for Food Supply, Efficient Resource Use, and Sustainable Crop** Systems? An Argumentation Analysis Regarding Livestock Farming
It has been argued that livestock farming is necessary to feed a growing population, that it enables efficient use of land and biomass that would...
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Casting Justice Before Swine: Late Mediaeval Pig Trials as Instances of Human Exceptionalism
In recent years, several cases about the legal personhood of nonhuman animals garnered global attention, e.g. the recognition of ‘basic rights’ for...
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Experience Without Cognitive Contact with the World: Comments on Anil Gupta
An attractive thought about perceptual experience is that it puts us in contact with the world, that it is “openness to the layout of reality”...
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Feral
There is semantic ambiguity in the term “feral” since it can designate species, landscapes, dynamics or ethics. Challenging dualisms, it accounts for...
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Existence
In Chap. 8 we saw that two basic kinds of quantification were natural in first-order modal logics:...