Animalism

Bibliographic Data

ID4079657
AuthorsAndrew M Bailey (0000-0002-6030-4896, Yale-NUS College, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume10
Issue12
Pages867-883
Publication date2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12263
OpenAlexW4211253303
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited196

Among your closest associates is a certain human animal - a living, breathing, organism. You see it when you look in the mirror (go ahead; take a look). When it is sick, you don't feel too well. Where it goes, you go. And, one thinks, where you go, it must follow. Indeed, you can make it move through sheer force of will. You bear, in short, an important and intimate relation to this, your animal. So too rest of us with our animals. Animalism says that this relation is nothing short of identity. According to animalists, we do not only coincide with or constitute or inhabit or otherwise hang out with these close associates, our animals: we are them. In this article, I offer an opinionated take on what animalism might be and situate it against contemporary rivals. Then, I outline a simple case for animalism. Finally, I sketch non-standard routes for animalists to take in light of standard challenges. My goal in all of this is to open up some new avenues of animalist thinking

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Nothing · Sketch · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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