Non-anthropocentrism as Participation alongside Perspective
Indigenous Philosophers and Dynamics of Inter-species Kinship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22343262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kat Wehrheim (0009-0006-4880-0463, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2283-3196 • E-ISSN: 2280-9643 |
| Publisher | Led Edizioni Universitarie (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.7358/rela-2024-01-wehk |
| OpenAlex | W4404637143 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Contemporary Western alternatives to anthropocentrism – such as sentientism or biocentrism – rely on the scope of human knowledge exceeding its realistic limitations. As a corollary, although these models continue to be helpful in discerning ethical conduct, additional resources are going to be required. Initially arguing from within a representationalist paradigm, this paper shows that besides our inability reliably to assess the capacities of non-human species, we have also yet to learn what other factors, besides capacity, may be relevant to a non-human’s moral considerability. Subsequently arguing from within a participationalist paradigm, this paper shows that we cannot preconceive all we may be in the process of co-creating. This leaves any model grounded solely in the already existing open to finding itself incapable of relating to the new. It is in the co-creativity of the latter that a potential starting point for resolution begins to emerge: drawing upon Indigenous conceptions of performative knowledge processes in non-objectifying relationality, this paper shows dynamics of inter-species kinship, at times partially traceable through evolutionary relationship, to be a source of non-propositional learning relevant to ethical concerns
Anthropocentrism · Biology · Creativity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Kinship · Performative utterance · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |