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Title: | Don Quixote's Windmills | Contributor(s): | Kaplan, Gisela (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20727 | Abstract: | Animal cognition and animal communication are fields of study that are immediately capable of evoking intellectual traditions dating from antiquity. They have also evoked theological debates since medieval Christianity, showing how entrapped we have been in anthropocentrism. It was Empedocles (495-439 BC) who first introduced the notion of the survival of the fittest, later popularized (while misrepresenting Darwin's concept of natural selection) by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) in his 'Principles of Biology' (1864), Aristotle (384-322 BC) who conceptualized all living things along a 'scala naturae', Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) who considered, in 'Leviathan' (1651), all natural life as nasty, brutish, and short, and René Descartes (1596-1650) who reinforced the view that humans are fundamentally distinct from the rest of living things because, according to him, humans can think and animals cannot. The ideas of Empedocles, Aristotle, and Descartes remained the foundations for thinking about animals well into the twentieth century. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene, p. 197-213 | Publisher: | Lexington Books | Place of Publication: | Lanham, United States of America | ISBN: | 9781498527965 9781498527972 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified 060801 Animal Behaviour |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 310901 Animal behaviour | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences 280111 Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/226312720 | Series Name: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice | Editor: | Editor(s): Morten Tonnessen, Kristin Armstrong Oma, and Silver Rattasepp |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Science and Technology |
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