10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. With Birkhead, you never know what’s going to come next.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. The temptation is even stronger for popularizers, who have to condense and choose a focus that will appeal to the book-buying public.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2024
The prinia will then claim that its current name – celebrating a morally very questionable person – is no longer acceptable in the modern world. Then again, why would anyone name a bird after a botanist, let alone one I only just made up right now? Personally, I wish the species the best of luck in this endeavor. (Of
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
The new hot novelist Jenny Offill was quoted in the Times magazine recently about her first book: “If someone had described this novel to me, I would never have read it.”. Much of the book is devoted to explicating the intertwined relations of Alejandra’s family and Lili’s, about which a review should not reveal too much. By Susan M.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) At no point will we speculate about Martin’s motives.
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