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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 철학 > 윤리/도덕 철학
· ISBN : 9781032899602
· 쪽수 : 180쪽
· 출판일 : 2025-11-28
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Facing Animals: Our Emotions, our Prejudices, our Ambivalences?
Introduction?
Chapter 1: Humans are animals to an extent???????????
Humans, the Pinnacle of Creation?
Darwin: One Hell of a Fall
With New Perspectives Come New Biases?
The Test of Consciousness, a Mismeasure of Animals?
What it’s Like to Be an Animal
Evolving Representations?
Chapter 2: The Role of Animals in Human Cultures?
Ancestral Companionship?
Mutual attraction?
From Oracles to Religions?
From Representation to Mimicry?
Animals as Tools and Resources?
The Beneficial Presence of Animals?
Partisan Zoology?
From Aesop to Disney?
Chapter 3: Interwoven relationships between animals and humans.
Dehumanising a Group by Animalising it
Are People Who Care More about Animals Also More Compassionate with Humans??
A Framing Effect
Categorizing Animals and Depriving Them of Individuality?
Chapter 4: The Origins of Our Prejudices against Animals?
Where Animals and Humans Meet
Three Types of Animal Threats?
Physical Attacks?
Land and Air Collisions?
Zoonoses?
The Two Dimensions of our Perception of Animals?
Chapter 5: The Paradoxes of Might Makes Right
Cognitive Dissonance?
How to Solve the Problem of Meat Consumption??
Chapter 6: The Fluid Boundaries of Empathy?
Are Fish Outside the Scope of our Empathy?
Fish Culture?
Conditions for Empathy?
Chapter 7: Cruelty Towards Animals and Deviance?
Is there a Connection between Animal Abuse and Violence against Humans??
Serial Killers and a Norman Peasant
Violence and the Sociozoological Scale?
Who by Fire, Who by Water
What We Learn from General Population Studies?
Cruel Teenagers?
Psychological Deficiencies and Trauma?
Chapter 8: Why Are Human Societies Cruel to Animals??
Reasons for Ordinary Violence?
The Escalation Hypothesis?
Of Mice and Norms?
Chapter 9: How Empathy Gets Turned Off?
Double Sacrifice?
The Harmful Principle?
A Risk of Emotional Anaesthesia??
Laboratory Strategies and Semantic Tricks?
Talking Points and Euphemisms?
“Nameless”?
Chapter 10: Arguing Over Animal Bodies?
Descartes’s animal machine: what exactly are we talking about??
The case of the brown dog?
The politicised animal
Direct action movements?
Class oppositions?
The political denunciation of vivisection?
The overrepresentation of women?
Presidential dogs?
Chapter 11: How Many Dogs for Every Human??
The trolley problem???
Opinion polls on animal experimentation?
Mental attributions and their uses for research?
Mental frameworks and animal instrumentalization?
Chapter 12: Human Obedience in the lab: The Milgram Experiment
Looking back at Milgram’s experiment
Milgram, sixty years after the first shocks?
Obedience to authority is not what Milgram thought it was.
A ratchet effect??
Science as a higher goal
A model of rational obedience?
Chapter 13: An Experimental Study using a Robotic Fish: A Variation of the Milgram Experiment
In silico: the scientist and the artist
A biomimetic fish?
Describing the injection protocol
The recruitment process and the different steps of the experiment
The impact of the protocol
Spotting suspicious participants?
Chapter 14: What the study reveals about us?
Behavioural predictions: a better-than-average effect
Consented authority?
How does a pro-science attitude influence behaviour??
Chapter 15: Neutralising the gaze of animals?
Touched by a gaze?
Selective empathy?
Complete lack of empathy?
The empathy quotient and behaviour
Hierarchising living beings?
Converging influences?
Chapter 16: Moral Dilemmas?
Stress and tension?
Moral pain relief?
Self-exoneration?
Altruism or rebellion??
The “pet as ambassador” hypothesis?
Poignant personal experiences?
Once the experiment is over
Afterword: A canary in the coalmine?
Our compromises with animals?
After Milgram: revisiting our conceptions of submission to authority?
With a canary in the coalmine?
Acknowledgements?
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Index
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