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In Defense of Dolphins Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

In Defense of Dolphins By Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

In Defense of Dolphins by Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

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Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest research on dolphin intelligence and social behavior, to advocate for their ethical treatment.

In Defense of Dolphins Summary

In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier by Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest research on dolphin intelligence and social behavior, to advocate for their ethical treatment.
  • Encourages a reassessment of the human-dolphin relationship, arguing for an end to the inhuman treatment of dolphins
  • Written by an expert philosopher with almost twenty-years of experience studying dolphins
  • Combines up-to-date research supporting the sophisticated cognitive and emotional capacities of dolphins with entertaining first-hand accounts
  • Looks at the serious questions of intelligent life, ethical treatment, and moral obligation
  • Engaging and thought-provoking

In Defense of Dolphins Reviews

Everyone who is interested in Cetaceans and respects them has to read this book. (Mammalia, 2011)

An interesting read which raises some important issues regarding the way we view other species ... [A] thought-provoking book. (Animal Welfare, May 2008)

White is a distinguished, well-published philosopher...His book is clearly written, carefully reasoned, and easily read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. (Choice)

Thought-provoking ... very readable and well laid out ... (White) raises some important issues regarding the way we view other species. (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare)

About Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Thomas I. White, Ph.D. is the Hilton Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He is also the Scientific Advisor to the Wild Dolphin Project in Jupiter, Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1974, and he taught at Upsala College and Rider University in New Jersey before moving to California. In addition to numerous scholarly articles on a variety of philosophical topics, he is the author of Right and Wrong, Discovering Philosophy, Business Ethics and Men and Women at Work (with Katherine Kearney). Since 1990, he has observed and assisted with the research of Dr. Denise Herzing of the Wild Dolphin Project, a marine scientist who has been studying a community of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas for more than 20 years.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Why does a philosopher study dolphins?.

1. Dolphins: The Philosophical Questions.

2. The Anatomy and Physiology of Living in the Water.

3. Do Dolphins Think and Feel?.

4. Can Dolphins Solve Problems and Understand Language?.

5. Dolphin Social Intelligence.

6. What Kind of Beings are Dolphins?.

7. Ethics and Human/Dolphin Contact.

Epilogue.

Additional information

NLS9781405157797
9781405157797
1405157798
In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier by Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Thomas I. White (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20070704
248
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