Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships

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Contents Foreword ix John J. McDermott Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Pragmatism and the Future of Human-Nonhuman Relationships 1 Andrew Light and Erin McKenna part one: pragmatism considering animals 1. “What Does Rome Know of Rat and Lizard?”: Pragmatic Mandates for Considering Animals in Emerson, James, and Dewey 19 James M. Albrecht 2. Dewey and Animal Ethics 43 Steven Fesmire 3. Overlapping Horizons of Meaning: A Deweyan Approach to the Moral Standing of Nonhuman Animals 63 Phillip McReynolds 4. Peirce’s Horse: A Sympathetic and Semeiotic Bond 86 Douglas R. Anderson part two: pragmatism, the environment, hunting, and farming 5. Beyond Considerability: A Deweyan View of the Animal Rights–Environmental Ethics Debate 97 Ben A. Minteer 6. Methodological Pragmatism, Animal Welfare, and Hunting 119 Andrew Light 7. Getting Pragmatic about Farm Animal Welfare 140 Paul B. Thompson 8. Pragmatism and the Production of Livestock 160 Erin McKenna part three: pragmatism on animals as cures, companions, and calories 9. Is Pragmatism Chauvinistic? Dewey on Animal Experimentation 179 Jennifer Welchman 10. A Pragmatist Case for Animal Advocates on Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees 193 Todd M. Lekan 11. Pragmatism and Pets: Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, Maddie’s FundSM , and No More Homeless Pets in Utah 210 Matthew Pamental 12. Dining on Fido: Death, Identity, and the Aesthetic Dilemma of Eating Animals 228 Glenn Kuehn Contributors 249 Index 251 viii Contents ...