Mark Rowlands is a philosopher recognized for his significant contributions to the concepts of the extended mind and the moral status of animals. His most celebrated work chronicles his unique decade spent living and traveling with a wolf, exploring the complex relationship between humans and non-human animals. This compelling narrative is often described as an autobiography of ideas, delving into consciousness, knowledge, and offering a critique of conventional thinking about our place alongside other creatures. The book is lauded for its engaging insights and its powerful examination of the bond between species.
Exploring the contentious moral issue of animal rights, this concise and accessible overview delves into various perspectives and arguments surrounding the treatment of animals. It presents a balanced discussion, making complex ideas approachable for readers, and encourages thoughtful consideration of ethical implications and societal responsibilities toward animals.
Delving into a dog's perspective, this insightful exploration reveals how their experiences can illuminate human understanding. The author, known for previous works like The Philosopher and the Wolf, offers a unique lens on the bond between humans and dogs, highlighting the lessons we can learn about ourselves through our furry companions.
The philosopher Mark Rowlands takes a novel perspective on the problem of climate change and how to address it. With energy consumption at the core of the issue, he claims climate, extinction, and pestilence as three epoch-defining environmental issues of our time. Rowlands proposes a single solution to all three: breaking our collective habit of eating animals. Bringing to bear analytic rigor and empirical data, Rowlands argues that reversing the industrial farming of animals for our consumption will both significantly reduce energy emissions and allow for free space to aggressively reforest land being used by industrial animal farms to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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From the bestselling author of The Philosopher and the Wolf comes a gripping and provocative story of one man's life through a philosophical lens
An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition in the head.
Animal Rights is a big deal. From animal testing to vegetarianism, and hunting to preservation of fish stocks, it's a topic that's always in the news. Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, is the world's best known philosopher of animal rights. In this, the first introduction he has written to the topic, he starts by asking whether there is anything about humans that makes us psychologically or physiologically distinctive - so that there might be a moral justification for treating animals in a different way to how we treat humans. From this foundation, he goes on to explore specific issues of eating animals, experimentation, pets, hunting, zoos, predation and engineering animals. He ends with a challenging argument of how an improved understanding of animal ethics can and should affect readers' choices.
Mark Rowlands explores the intimate relationship between running and thinking, especially thoughts about the meaning of life, in this brilliant follow-up to The Philosopher and the Wolf
An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world.
The charming and poignant story of the relationship between a philosophy professor and his pet wolf.