Animals and Science
A Guide to the Debates
Published on 21. June 2002
408 pages
978-1-57607-882-2 (ISBN)
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Animals and Science examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.
Animals and Science examines what science has (and has not) taught us about the nature of nonhuman animals and explores the moral, religious, social, and scientific implications of those teachings. It shows how the scientific study of animals, especially their cognitive abilities, has transformed our understanding of them. Animals and Science traces our evolving understanding of animal pain and considers its moral relevance to humans. It discusses Darwin's belief-shattering notion that species differences are not absolute, then traces its impact to the present day.
Ultimately, Animals and Science is about the nature of science-the kinds of questions science can and cannot answer, and the role of theory in shaping the interpretation of evidence.
Animals and Science examines what science has (and has not) taught us about the nature of nonhuman animals and explores the moral, religious, social, and scientific implications of those teachings. It shows how the scientific study of animals, especially their cognitive abilities, has transformed our understanding of them. Animals and Science traces our evolving understanding of animal pain and considers its moral relevance to humans. It discusses Darwin's belief-shattering notion that species differences are not absolute, then traces its impact to the present day.
Ultimately, Animals and Science is about the nature of science-the kinds of questions science can and cannot answer, and the role of theory in shaping the interpretation of evidence.
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English
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New York
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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978-1-57607-882-2 (9781576078822)
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Content
- Cover
- Animals and Science
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Man and Beast in Nature
- 1 The Essence of the Problem: Medieval Legacies
- St. Augustine and the Influence of Plato
- St. Thomas Aquinas and the Influence of Aristotle
- Other Medieval Perspectives
- Medicine, Disease, and Sin
- Medieval Machine Technologies
- Further Reading
- 2 Gut Feelings: Anatomy and Physiology in the Renaissance
- Fracastorius and the Nature of Contagious Disease
- The Art of Anatomy: Leonardo da Vinci
- Vesalius: Dissection, Vivisection, and Method
- Harvey: The Heart of the Matter
- Hooke: Machines and Medicine
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 3 Minds, Machines, and Bodies: Intelligent Design in Nature?
- Montaigne: Talking like an Animal
- Hobbes's Mechanical Man
- Descartes: Physics and Cosmology
- Descartes: Of Mice and Men
- The Intelligent Design of the World
- Newton and Design in Nature
- Paley and the Evidences of Design
- Further Reading
- 4 Of Mice and Monkeys: The Moral Relevance of Animal Pain
- Man and Beast after Descartes
- Kant: Rationality and Duty
- Bentham and the Moral Utility of Pain
- Animal Protection Movements in the Nineteenth Century
- Some Contemporary Developments
- Further Reading
- 5 The Job of Physiology: Animals in Nineteenth-Century Medicine
- Vitalism and the Meaning of Life
- Marshall Hall: The Compassionate Investigator
- Claude Bernard: The Methodology of Biomedical Research
- Man and Beast in the Name of Science
- Further Reading
- 6 By Accident or Design: Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- Geology and Method
- Darwin and the Origin of Species
- Darwin and Mechanistic Physiology
- Darwin on the Moral Status of Animals
- Darwin on the Mental Status of Animals
- Further Reading
- 7 Darwinism Developed: The Ontogeny of an Idea
- The New Synthesis
- Genes, Machines, and Development
- Evolutionary Medicine at a Glance
- Further Reading
- 8 The Mouse as Man Writ Small: Animals in Modern Medicine
- Animal Use in Modern Science
- Man and Beast: Similar yet Different
- Species Differences Again
- Evolutionary Toxicology
- Further Reading
- 9 Mice, Mazes, and Minds: Explaining Animal Behavior
- Theoretical Perspectives
- Behaviorism and Evidence
- Classical Behaviorism
- Skinner and Radical Behaviorism
- Explaining Animal Behavior
- Cognition and Consciousness
- Cognitive Minimalism
- Cognitive Ethology
- Modest Cognitivism
- Evolution and Animal Behavior
- Further Reading
- 10 The Evolution of Consciousness: A Question of Animal Pain
- The Physiology of Pain
- Pain, Language, and Consciousness
- Consciousness: Saltationism or Gradualism?
- A Question of Evidence
- Further Reading
- 11 Animals through the Looking Glass: Language and Self-Consciousness
- Language and Nonhuman Animals
- The Evolution of Language
- The Gap between Humans and Apes
- The Question of Self-Consciousness
- Self-Consciousness and the Mirror Tests
- Further Reading
- 12 Conclusion: The Questions that Remain
- Looking to the Future: Organisms in the Light of Science
- Cattle Farming in the Light of Science
- Raising Crops in the Light of Science
- Microbes in the Light of Science
- Ecology in the Light of Science
- Further Reading
- Documents
- From Summa contra Gentiles
- 112. Of God and His Creatures
- From De Fabrica Humani Corporis
- Book vii, Chapter xlx. What May Be Learned by Dissection of the Dead and What of the Living
- The Use of Ligaments
- The Use and Function of the Muscles
- The Use of the Nerve in the Muscles
- Examination of the Uses of the Dorsal Medulla
- Examination of the Uses of the Veins and Arteries
- Examination of the Fetus
- Examination of the Function of the Heart, and Lungs and Great Vessels
- Examination of the Recurrent Nerves and the Loss of Voice from the Cutting of Them
- Examination of the Functions of the Diaphragm
- Examination of the Movements of the Lung
- From De motu Cordis et Sanguinis
- Of the Motions of Arteries, as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals [From Chapter III]
- Of the Motion of the Heart and Its Auricles, as Seen in the Bodies of Living Animals [From Chapter IV]
- Of the Motions of the Heart, as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals [From Chapter II]
- From Apology for Raymond Sebond
- Man Is No Better than the Animals
- From Discourse on Method
- From Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Chapter i. Of the Principle of Utility
- From Animal Liberation
- All Animals Are Equal . . . or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too
- From Introduction à l' étude de la Médicine Expérimentale
- III. Vivisection
- From The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- Sigma Xi Statement on the Use of Animals in Research
- Approved unanimously by the Sigma Xi Board of Directors on November 16, 1991
- Issues Associated with the Use of Animals in Research
- Use of Animals and the Research Process
- Conclusion
- From About Behaviorism
- i. The Causes of Behavior
- Structuralism
- Methodological Behaviorism
- Radical Behaviorism
- A Few Words of Caution
- From The Question of Animal Awareness
- The Adaptive Value of Conscious Awareness
- The Nature and Nurture of Mental Experiences
- Summary and Conclusions
- References
- Index
- About the Author
