Tag: "animals & human beings"

Contemplating Colobus

Dawn Starin reports on the state of colobus civilization in a small Gambian forest.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Articles]

What Makes Human Beings Unique?

Hans Lenk on symbols, interpretation and the nature of thought.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Articles]

Letters

Animal Reflexes • The Inconceivable Truth • Beauty and Artfulness • Fear of Equality • Environmental Mistakes • Musically Minded
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Letters]

Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Tim Madigan presents a symbol most fowl for philosophy.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Food for Thought]

“I knew him by his voice”: Can Animals Be Our Friends?

Stephen Clark examines how far Aristotle’s concept of friendship might apply to animals, among themselves and between us and them.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Animals]

Our Furry Friends

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Editorial]

Turning The Tables: We Matter Because We Are Animals

by Joel Marks
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Moral Moments]

Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror by Lee Hall

Joel Marks advocates animal rights with Lee Hall.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Books]

Crabs

Peter Royle shows no vexation over Sartre’s crustacean fixation.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Animals]

Hunting For Consistency

Angus Taylor argues that to be consistent, we must either exclude some humans from the moral community, or else include at least some animals.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008: Animals]