Passionate Animals

Mara-Daria Cojocaru is an independent scholar.

“Hard-hitting yet lucid, lyrical yet well-argued, Passionate Animals: Emotions, Animal Ethics, and Moral Pragmatics is a superb example of philosophy that makes a difference. Mara-Daria Cojocaru wrestles with how we habitually think of and interact with the animal world and how we should go about changing these habits by renewing our understanding of what it means to be ‘human.’ In so doing, Cojocaru revives, renews, and adapts the best of the pragmatist and Aristotelian traditions by putting authentic self-reflection and rich philosophical conversation to work in addressing a salient and pressing moral problem with vigour, subtlety, and precision.”

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 That We Don't Go Down on Our Knees in Shame and Grief Every Day Never Ceases to Amaze Me2 So How Does This Become Philosophy? A Few Notes on MethodPart 1: Passionate Animals3 Becoming Animal: Humans and Other Animals4 Passions: Why We Care – Also About Other Animals5 Becoming Human: Elements of Moral PragmaticsPart 2: Emotions and Normative Beliefs6 Passionate Reasoning: The Role of Values in Systematic Inquiry7 Passionate Disagreement: Anger and Why it is Not the Beginning of the End of Civilized Coexistence8 Getting it Right: What You Need to Know About Animal Experimentation and Factory FarmingPart 3: Thinking Alternatives9 Instruments and Approaches10 Animal Ethics and Animal Politics: From Law Enforcement to Private Experiments in LivingEpilogueBibliographyIndexAbout the Author