Pets, People, and Pragmatism
ISBN: 9780823252404
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

This book examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either unnatural and to be avoided, or benign. We need to find ways to relate respectfully. For respectful relationships to be a real possibility, though, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with whom they live, work, and play.

McKenna Erin :

Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the co-editor of Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships (with Andrew Light) and the co-author (with Scott Pratt) of Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy: The Porpoise Driven Life.


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