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 This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal
world, conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific
situations and as a source of innovations and inventions.
Creativity is a fundamental resource for the individual who always
has a leading role in conduct. To explain creativity, the book
focuses on the concept of animal subjectivity, providing a new
explanatory model of behavior capable of overcoming the image of
the animal moved by automatisms. This model does not use
consciousness as a necessary condition, but is based: 1) on
affective components, such as behavioral motives, and 2) cognitive,
as tools used by the subject to carry out his purposes. Particular
attention is paid to the learning processes showing the subjective
character of the experience. One topic addressed is the role of
creativity in the evolution of living beings: how an invention, by
modifying the niche characteristics, is able to change the
selective pressures and the trajectory of phylogeny. Roberto
Marchesini explains that creativity is a factor that is anything
but rare or exceptional in the animal world—it constitutes a
fundamental quality for many aspects of animal life.
The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming
of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences
which, according to the authors, is required today both by the
developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they
have to face. The volume discusses the theoretical, epistemological
and ethical repercussions of the main acquisitions obtained in the
last decades from the behavioral sciences. Both the authors are
inspired by the concept of a "critical ethology", oriented to
archive the nature/culture and human/animal dichotomies. The book
proposes a theoretical and methodological restructuring of the
comparative study of the animal behavior, learning, and cultures,
focused on the fact that thought, culture and language are not
exclusively human prerogatives. The proposed analysis includes a
critique of speciesism and determinism in the ethical field, and
converge with the Numanities, to which the series is dedicated, on
a key point: it is necessary to arrive at an education system able
to offer scientific, social and ethical skills that are trasversal
and transcendent to the traditional humanities/life sciences
bipartition. Skills that are indispensable for facing the complex
challenges of the contemporary society and promoting a critical
reflection of humanity on itself.
The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming
of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences
which, according to the authors, is required today both by the
developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they
have to face. The volume discusses the theoretical, epistemological
and ethical repercussions of the main acquisitions obtained in the
last decades from the behavioral sciences. Both the authors are
inspired by the concept of a "critical ethology", oriented to
archive the nature/culture and human/animal dichotomies. The book
proposes a theoretical and methodological restructuring of the
comparative study of the animal behavior, learning, and cultures,
focused on the fact that thought, culture and language are not
exclusively human prerogatives. The proposed analysis includes a
critique of speciesism and determinism in the ethical field, and
converge with the Numanities, to which the series is dedicated, on
a key point: it is necessary to arrive at an education system able
to offer scientific, social and ethical skills that are trasversal
and transcendent to the traditional humanities/life sciences
bipartition. Skills that are indispensable for facing the complex
challenges of the contemporary society and promoting a critical
reflection of humanity on itself.
This book presents a new way to understand human-animal
interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as
human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment,
and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions
of humanism, materialism, and speculative philosophy. The research
presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural
sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals
with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian
Renaissance. Readers discover a vision of the human as a species
informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not
constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close
relations with otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable
and, therefore, more hybrid. The argument it presents interests
scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who
wants to delve into the deep animal-human bond and its
philosophical, cultural, political instances. The author is a
veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive
science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of
empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal
life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human
identity and culture at all levels.
This book presents a new way to understand human-animal
interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as
human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment,
and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions
of humanism, materialism, and speculative philosophy. The research
presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural
sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals
with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian
Renaissance. Readers discover a vision of the human as a species
informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not
constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close
relations with otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable
and, therefore, more hybrid. The argument it presents interests
scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who
wants to delve into the deep animal-human bond and its
philosophical, cultural, political instances. The author is a
veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive
science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of
empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal
life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human
identity and culture at all levels.
This book deals with the theme of creativity in the animal world,
conceived as a basic function for adapting to specific situations
and as a source of innovations and inventions. Creativity is a
fundamental resource for the individual who always has a leading
role in conduct. To explain creativity, the book focuses on the
concept of animal subjectivity, providing a new explanatory model
of behavior capable of overcoming the image of the animal moved by
automatisms. This model does not use consciousness as a necessary
condition, but is based: 1) on affective components, such as
behavioral motives, and 2) cognitive, as tools used by the subject
to carry out his purposes. Particular attention is paid to the
learning processes showing the subjective character of the
experience. One topic addressed is the role of creativity in the
evolution of living beings: how an invention, by modifying the
niche characteristics, is able to change the selective pressures
and the trajectory of phylogeny. Roberto Marchesini explains that
creativity is a factor that is anything but rare or exceptional in
the animal world-it constitutes a fundamental quality for many
aspects of animal life.
In recent years, the word 'virus' has lost its biological perimeter
of reference to acquire a much broader - could say 'paradigmatic' -
meaning. The term 'virus' can be seen as a key word or an
explanatory model also for processes that go beyond the infectious
sphere. Every event appears to have a viral character: from the way
information is transmitted to the processes of cultural
globalization, from the impact of human beings on the planet to the
subversion of ecosystems, from pandemic risks to the demographic
increase on the planet. This seems to be indeed the Age of the
Virus. Its model can be applied to most of the phenomena that
characterize the twenty-first. Its profile - its looming and
invisible nature, its ability to use other people's resources to
spread and to transform into a dangerous doppelganger - is perfect
to represent the fears of the contemporary age.
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