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  • Animals. A History. Oxford University Press, 2018. 472p. Paperback. Series: Oxford Philosophical Concepts. Each of the twelve chapters of this collection presents a nuanced reading of a historical period or thinker and shows their attitudes towards non-human animals to be well-developed, explicitly argued and informed by up-to-date empirical knowledge...Overall, Animals: A History represents a genuine contribution to debates about animal cognition and animal ethics. This contribution comes not through the introduction of new figures or arguments, but rather through grounding existing figures and arguments in an impressive level of philosophical detail and historical depth. Those who read this book will no longer be satisfied with the lazy caricatures of Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and others which haunt our discourse about animals, but will see them as the worthy interlocutors and historically grounded thinkers that they are. British Journal for the History of Philosophy |a 30/03/2021 (Publisher's information). € 49.58 (New) (Printed on Demand)  (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780199375974