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Pets, People, and Pragmatism (Hardcover, New)
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Pets, People, and Pragmatism (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Philosophy
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Pets, People, and Pragmatism examines human relationships with pets
without assuming that such relations are either benign or unnatural
and to be avoided. The book addresses a lack of respect in
pet-people relationships; for respectful relationships to be a real
possibility, however, humans must make the effort to understand the
beings with whom we live, work, and play. American pragmatism
understands that humans and other animal beings have been
interacting and transforming each other for thousands of years.
There is nothing unnatural about the human domestication of other
animal beings, though domestication does raise specific practical
and ethical questions. A pragmatist account of our relationship
with those animal beings commonly considered as pets does not
prohibit the use of these beings in research, entertainment,
competition, or work. It does, however, find abuse and neglect
unethical. Since abuse can occur in any use of other animal beings,
this pragmatist account takes up the abusive practices in research,
entertainment, competition, and work without arguing that research,
entertainment, competition, and work are inherently abusive. Some
of the sources of abuse have been addressed by utilitarian and
deontological accounts, but a pragmatist evolutionary perspective
offers unique insights and results in some surprising conclusions:
for instance, there may be an ethical obligation to let a horse
race, a dog show, or a cat compete in agility. Pets, People, and
Pragmatism embarks on a philosophical journey that will captivate
scholars and pet enthusiasts alike. It provides an important
contribution to longstanding debates in the area of animal issues
and strengthens the idea of multiple approaches to non-human
beings. It also opens space for approaches that challenge some of
the assumptions in the field of philosophy that have resulted in a
dualistic and hierarchical approach to metaphysics and ethics.
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