Planning for the Future | Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live?

Felicitas Selter

ISBN 10: 3957431778 / ISBN 13: 9783957431776

Published by Brill Mentis, 2020

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Planning for the Future | Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live? | Felicitas Selter | Taschenbuch | X | Englisch | 2020 | Brill Mentis | EAN 9783957431776 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Brill Deutschland GmbH, Wollmarktstr. 115, 33098 Paderborn, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Planning for the Future | Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live?
• Publisher: Brill Mentis
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3957431778
• ISBN 13: 9783957431776
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 160H x 19D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 466 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Are animals mentally stuck in the present, unable to think beyond the here and now, or are they mental time travelers, capable of planning ahead in time? And why should this matter to us?
"Planning for the Future" provides a thorough conceptual clarification of the most important but ambiguously used concepts in the debate and differentiates between two types of planning. In analyzing several influential studies with birds and apes, the book concludes that there is indeed evidence for anticipatory planning in some animals, but not for strategic planning so far. In a chapter of its own, ethical consequences regarding the wrongness of killing animals from utilitarian and animal rights perspectives are laid out. Do at least some animals have a strong interest in continuing to live? Should they even be ascribed with a right not to be killed? And why might the awareness of our own mortality hinder us in finding answers?