Springer Critical Ethology and Post-Anthropocentric Ethics: Beyond the Separation between Humanities and Life Sciences: 16 (Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, 16)

The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences which, according to the authors, is required today both by the developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they have to face. The volume discusses the theoretical, epistemological and ethical repercussions of the main acquisitions obtained in the last decades from the behavioral sciences. Both the authors are inspired by the concept of a “critical ethology”, oriented to archive the nature/culture and human/animal dichotomies. The book proposes a theoretical and methodological restructuring of the comparative study of the animal behavior, learning, and cultures, focused on the fact that thought, culture and language are not exclusively human prerogatives. The proposed analysis includes a critique of speciesism and determinism in the ethical field, and converge with the Numanities, to which the series is dedicated, on a key point: it is necessary to arrive at an education system able to offer scientific, social and ethical skills that are trasversal and transcendent to the traditional humanities/life sciences bipartition. Skills that are indispensable for facing the complex challenges of the contemporary society and promoting a critical reflection of humanity on itself. From the Back Cover The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences which, according to the authors, is required today both by the developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they have to face. The volume discusses the theoretical, epistemological and ethical repercussions of the main acquisitions obtained in the last decades from the behavioral sciences. Both the authors are inspired by the concept of a “critical ethology”, oriented to archive the nature/culture and human/animal dichotomies. The book proposes a theoretical and methodological restructuring of the comparative study of the animal behavior, learning, and cultures, focused on the fact that thought, culture and language are not exclusively human prerogatives. The proposed analysis includes a critique of speciesism and determinism in the ethical field, and converge with the Numanities, to which the series is dedicated, on a key point: it is necessary to arrive at an education system able to offer scientific, social and ethical skills that are trasversal and transcendent to the traditional humanities/life sciences bipartition. Skills that are indispensable for facing the complex challenges of the contemporary society and promoting a critical reflection of humanity on itself. About the Author Marco Celentano is a Professor of Ethics and Moral Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale (Italy), founder and coordinator of the Post-Graduate School of Philosophy, Ethics and Ethology, and member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research and of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy. He correlate in His studies different research fields: from ethology of knowledge, evolutionary epistemology to the philosophy of ethology and study of the animal minds and cultures. He also produced monographic studies on authors such as K. Lorenz, F. Nietzsche and Th. Adorno and several papers on the question of animal liberation and the contemporary anti-speciesist ethics. Amongst his publications for the English-speaking audience: From Konrad Lorenz’s “phylogenetic apriorism” to the birth of Evolutionary Epistemology. In Andreica, O. - Olteanu, A. (eds.) Readings in Numanities, Springer 2017; Interspecific Cultural Convergences (ICC) and Interspecific Cultural Studies (ICS): From the only human towards a comparative history of animal uses and traditions in Ceccarelli D., Frezza G. (eds), Predicatbility and the Unpredictable, CNR Edizioni 2018; “Both for Ethics and Heal