What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat

by Hales, Steven D.

• ISBN13: 9780812696523
• ISBN10: 0812696522
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Open Court

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

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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