Tag: animals
More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”
Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve.
How Life Looks and How It Works: Thoughts on Eberlin’s Foresight
He concludes that “evolutionary ‘just so’ stories” are examples of “wishful thinking starved of molecular details.”
It’s Unjust Patriarchy to Own a Pet!
Corey Lee Wrenn argues that what is done to an animal should be judged in the same fashion as if the same thing were done to a human.
Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”
The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism.
Why Animals Don’t Speak
If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation.