When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

ISBN-13: 9780099478911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996

J. Moussaieff Masson; Susan McCarthy

Opis

Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent. Thus, if the whole of our human psychological understanding rests on reflective inferences, why are the same criteria considered invalid for animals?