Human/Animal Relationships in Transformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction

   • Simone Pollo, Augusto Vitale

   Pages 1-6

3. Philosophy and Ethics of Human Animal/Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Darwinian Biology and the New Understanding of Animals

      • Simone Pollo

      Pages 9-29

   3. Animal Detection and Its Role in Our Attitude towards Other Species

      • Giorgio Vallortigara

      Pages 31-45

   4. The Moral Value of Animal Sentience and Agency

      • Federico Zuolo

      Pages 47-66

   5. Affective Animal Ethics: Reflective Empathy, Attention and Knowledge Sub Specie Aeternitatis

      • Elisa Aaltola

      Pages 67-89

4. Transformations in General Scenarios

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Perceiving Animals Through Different Demographic and Cultural Lenses

      • Pim Martens, Bingtao Su

      Pages 93-118

   3. Animal Welfare in Context: Historical, Scientific, Ethical, Moral and One Welfare Perspectives

      • E. Anne McBride, Stephen Baugh

      Pages 119-147

   4. Survival of the Fittest: When an Evolutionary Advantage Becomes Such a Threat to the Welfare of Other Non-Human Animal Species That it Threatens Our Own Species

      • Jan L. M. Vaarten, Nancy De Briyne

      Pages 149-169

   5. A Proposal for a Multi-Dimensional Profile of the Animal Researcher

      • Augusto Vitale

      Pages 171-192

   6. The Two Sides of the Non-Human-Animal Bond: Reflections on Using and Abusing Companion Animals

      • Michał Piotr Pręgowski, Karin Hediger, Marie-José Enders-Slegers

      Pages 193-218

5. Transformations in Cases and Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Farms, Landscapes, Food and Relationships

      • Pasqualino Santori, Clemens Driessen

      Pages 221-239

   3. Biotechnologies and Animals: The Impact of Genetic Engineering on Human-Animal Relationships

      • Susanna Pietropaolo

      Pages 241-271

   4. Coexisting with Wild Nonhuman Primates in a Brazilian Semiarid Habitat

      • Noemi Spagnoletti

      Pages 273-288

   5. Companionship and Wellbeing: Benefits and Challenges of Human-Pet Relationships

      • Marta Borgi, Francesca Cirulli

      Pages 289-315

   6. Human-Wildlife Coexistence in the Urban Domain: Promoting Welfare Through Effective Management, Responsibility and the Recognition of Mutual Interest

      • Oliver Adrian Wookey

      Pages 317-338

6. Recognising Transformations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339

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The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions. Human/animal relationships are in transformation and understanding the nature of this process is crucial for all those who believe that the enlargement of moral and legal recognition to nonhuman animals is part of contemporary moral and political progress. Understanding the nature of this process means analysing and critically discussing the philosophical, scientific and legal concepts and arguments embedded in it. This book contributes to the discussion by bringing together the ideas and reflections of leading experts from different disciplinary backgrounds and with a range of scientific perspectives.

This book both provides an up-to-date examination of the transformation of human/animal relationships and presents ideas to foster this process.

• Animal experimentation
• Assisted animal intervention
• Ethology
• Farm animals
• Pets

• Center for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

  Augusto Vitale

• Department of Philosophy, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

  Simone Pollo

Augusto Vitale is Researcher at the Center for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome. His interests focus on behavioural primatology and issues related to animal experimentation. He is the author of the book Le scimmie si raccontano? Passioni e dubbi dell’etologia (2016).


Simone Pollo is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of two monographs (in Italian) on animal ethics: Umani e animali. Questioni di etica (2016) and Manifesto per un animalismo democratico (2021).

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