What ethical obligations do people have to cats? Are cats more rational than humans? What can cats teach humans about evolutionary psychology? In this fascinating collection of articles, 18 philosophers try to answer these questions and more as they explore the majesty, mystique, and mystery of the cat. They reveal surprising insights into the feline mind and world and offer delightful anecdotes of cats they have known.
What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat
by Hales, Steven D.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-11-01
Publisher(s): Open Court
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Table of Contents
| Catenations | p. vii |
| The Companionship of Cats | p. 1 |
| What I Learned from a Cat that No Philosopher Could Teach Me | p. 3 |
| What Your Cat Can Teach You about Philosophy | p. 15 |
| The Friendship of Felines | p. 27 |
| Feline Aesthetics and Ethics | p. 43 |
| The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | p. 45 |
| Cats and the Aesthetics of the Everyday | p. 63 |
| Can Human Health Care Learn from Cat Health Care? | p. 75 |
| The Other Two Sides | p. 89 |
| Why I Won't Hurt Your Felines | p. 101 |
| Our Obligations to Domesticated Animals | p. 111 |
| The Fascination of Feline Minds | p. 121 |
| Are You Any More Rational than Your Cat? | p. 123 |
| What's It Like to Be My Cat? | p. 135 |
| Do Cats Have Beliefs? | p. 147 |
| The Many Ways to Skin a Cat | p. 157 |
| Metaphysics for Cats | p. 171 |
| Cats in the Afterlife | p. 173 |
| Can Whiskers Have More than Nine Lives? Feline and Human Cloning | p. 191 |
| Dead or Alive? A Puzzling Identity | p. 205 |
| Cat People? | p. 217 |
| Catnesses | p. 229 |
| Cool Cats | p. 239 |
| Felinedex | p. 243 |
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