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9780812696523

What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat

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    9780812696523

  • ISBN10:

    0812696522

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-11-01
  • Publisher: Open Court
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Catenationsp. vii
The Companionship of Catsp. 1
What I Learned from a Cat that No Philosopher Could Teach Mep. 3
What Your Cat Can Teach You about Philosophyp. 15
The Friendship of Felinesp. 27
Feline Aesthetics and Ethicsp. 43
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautifulp. 45
Cats and the Aesthetics of the Everydayp. 63
Can Human Health Care Learn from Cat Health Care?p. 75
The Other Two Sidesp. 89
Why I Won't Hurt Your Felinesp. 101
Our Obligations to Domesticated Animalsp. 111
The Fascination of Feline Mindsp. 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 Catp. 157
Metaphysics for Catsp. 171
Cats in the Afterlifep. 173
Can Whiskers Have More than Nine Lives? Feline and Human Cloningp. 191
Dead or Alive? A Puzzling Identityp. 205
Cat People?p. 217
Catnessesp. 229
Cool Catsp. 239
Felinedexp. 243
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