Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene

ISBN-13: 9783319834092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 338 str.

Michael Charles Tobias; Jane Gray Morrison; Bill Gladstone

Recenzje

"Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene is packed with example after example of attitudes, values, behaviors, and practices of human dominance toward animals across and throughout cultural history. ... Anthrozoology is a challenging yet informative and very creative book; one that I imagine would engage and stimulate students, among others, in countless, unimaginable ways." (David J. Wagner, MAHB, mahb.stanford.edu, February, 2017)

Spis treści

Preface

Ecological Bifurcations

The Vernadsky Presumption                        

Biological Proliferations

Ecological Failure or Amelioration

Chapter 1: The Making of the Anthropocene          

The Making of the Anthropocene

Relational Values and Vicissitudes

Rewilding                                             

The Others

Pain and Pleasure

Grey Tonalities

Some Aspects of Due Diligence

Data Sets and Dialectic Ontologies

Melancholic Deliberations         

Mind in the Forest

Ecological Enigma Codes

Sentience and Accelerated Evolution

Primate Biometrics and Other Biological Dualisms

Quantum Sapience

Darwin’s Umbrella

Differential Equivalencies

The Ontology of Mutualism

Chapter 2: Our Conquest of Co-Evolution?

Counter-Collaborative Intuitions

The Zoological Gaze

Biorealism, Species Extinctions and Carrying Capacity

The Sorites “Paradox of the Heap” in a World of Fuzzy Logic

Contradictory Breaking Points

The Metabolic Truths of Biological De-Constructions

The Blue Whale Question?

Post-Holocene Histories

Chapter 3: The Metaphysics of Extinction

An Overview of Ceballos, Ehrlich and Ehrlich

Existential Animals/Plants at Ground Zero and the Rewilding Movement

Resolving Paradox?

510 Billion Square Meters of the Earth’s Surface

Reproachable Pathways

The Genus Sus

What Constitutes Being Intelligent and is that Even a Relevant Word?

Intelligence Versus Sustainability and Compassion

Everything That is a Person

Living Ghosts from the Middle Miocene: Co-Habitation With the Most Iconic Carnivores in North America

Bio-Etymologies

Chapter 4: The Conative Spectrum of Other Species

Fagan Bonds

Quantum Anthrozoology

The Many Glitches of Fairyland Zoology

Flawed Algorithms and Interpolations

Epiphanies at the Boundary Level

Imagination that Translates into Biological Success

The Pigeon Test

Animal Intelligence that Challenges Our Own

The Semiosphere

The Disambiguation of Ethics                                     Ecological Communion

Comparative Sentience and Sapience

A Menage a Trois in the Sea of Cortez  

Chapter 5: Arcadian Connections

Jungles on an Existential Planet

Art as Interspecies Immanence

Of Birds and Dreams and Flannery O’Connor

Chapter 6: The “Other Minds” Challenge

Jain Bioinformatics  

Himsa, Violence Towards The Others

Conflicted Advocacy: When Poetry and Song Fails to Impress

State Sanctioned Torture of the Innocents

Variable Data Sets

DNA and BioCommunications

Ignoring or Embracing the BioCommunicative Challenges?

Chapter 7: A Prolegomena of Human Conscience

Bambi and Beyond

Reverence for the Individual

Small-World-Ness

Combinative Linguistic Capacities

Research Dialectics and Triage During Real-Time Crises

“Qualia” Beneath Seemingly Scientific Chaos

The Logic Trap

The Relativity of Neurons                

Measuring Survival Within the Context of Intelligence

Chapter 8: Experiential, Empirical and Disturbing Anthrozoologies

Interspecies Altruisms

Ecological Dichotomies

Chapter 9: Epiphanies of the Biosemiosphere  

Our Embrace of Life

Chapter 10: Evolutionary Biographies and the Enigma of the “Other”                                      Beyond Solitude

An Overview of ‘Readings In Zoosemiotics’

Chapter 11: A North American Family – The Ecologies of Translation

Redressing the Anthropocene Through Interspecies Communication

Transcending Taxonomy

The Brilliance of Songbirds

The Parrots

A Brief History of Biophilia

A California Fanfare: And Josie at the Heart of it All

Josie’s Story

Gallus gallus and Meleagris gallopavo

Conversations With Josie

Post-Scientific Josie

Hominid and Psittacine Semiospheres

Of Dinosaurs and Other Memories        

Expanding Contexts to Comport With Reality

Feathers Fashioned of Hope

A Personal Genealogy  

The Fool’s Paradise

Josie’s Final Narrative                            

The Futility of Comparisons

The Crisis of One Plus One

Josie’s Final Act of Heroism

Chapter 12: Coda

The Silence of Järvenpää

O autorze

Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, partners who between them have authored some 50 books and written, directed and produced some 170 films, a prolific body of work that has been read, translated and/or broadcast around the world, have been married for more than a quarter-of-a-century. Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in over 80 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people – deeply in love with one another – can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others – of all species.

Blurb

This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text, readers will learn that human interconnections with other species and ecosystems are severely endangered precisely because we lack - by our evolutionary self-confidence - the very coherence that is everywhere around us abundantly demonstrated. What our species has deemed to be superior is, according to Tobias and Morrison, the cumulative result of a tragically tenuous argument predicated on the brink of our species’ self-destruction, giving rise to a most unique proposition: We either recognize the miracle of other sentient intelligence, sophistication, and genius, or risk enshrining the shortest lived epitaph of any known vertebrate in earth’s 4.1 billion years of life.

Tobias and Morrison draw on 45 years of research in fields ranging from ecological anthropology, animal protection and comparative ethics to literature and spirituality - and beyond. They deploy research in animal and plant behavior, biocultural heritage contexts from every continent and they bring to bear a deeply metaphysical array of perspectives that set this book apart from any other. The book departs from most work in such fields as animal rights, ecological aesthetics, comparative ethology or traditional animal and plant behaviorist work, and yet it speaks to readers with an interest in those fields.

A deeply provocative book of philosophical premises and hypotheses from two of the world’s most influential ecological philosophers, this text is likely to stir uneasiness and debate for many decades to come.