Muddled Facts and Values: Positivism, Egoism, and Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2020-09-15 DOI:10.1163/15685306-BJA10020

F. Santiago-Ávila

引用次数: 1

Abstract

I review biologist Chris D. Thomas’s book (2017) Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction and discuss its exposition and prescriptions. Thomas presents a fantastic exposition of the contemporary scientific literature documenting the biological gains mediated by human impacts on the nonhuman world. However, his prescriptions for a conservation ethic leave much to be desired. Thomas employs a philosophically narrow, positivist, and egoist approach to what is relevant when dealing with other sentient, sapient, and often social nonhuman beings. This culminates in an explicitly anthropocentric ethic that dismisses our moral obligations to nonhumans, both as individuals and collectives.

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混淆的事实与价值:实证主义、利己主义和人类世的人类中心主义

我回顾了生物学家克里斯·d·托马斯的书(2017)《地球的继承者:大自然如何在灭绝时代蓬勃发展》，并讨论了它的阐述和处方。托马斯对当代科学文献进行了精彩的阐述，记录了人类对非人类世界的影响所介导的生物收益。然而，他对自然保护伦理的规定还有很多不足之处。托马斯采用了一种哲学上狭隘的、实证主义的、利己主义的方法来处理与其他有知觉的、有智慧的、通常是社会的非人类相关的事情。这最终导致了一种明确的以人类为中心的伦理，它摒弃了我们对非人类的道德义务，无论是作为个人还是作为集体。

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Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.