|
|
books
| book details |
Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge
By (author) Ashley Shew
|
| on special |
normal price: R 3 903.95
Price: R 3 512.95
|
| book description |
Animal studies literature, and its public consumption have sparked interest in questions about humanity. Most scholars aim these studies to help us sort out how we should regard other creatures and how we should understand ourselves in light of their capacities. This book offers something a little different, investigating the conceptual limits of tool-use and technology through the lens of technological knowledge. Making sense of animal studies can be tricky because of long-held and culturally pervasive beliefs and messages about human triumph over nature (where animals are considered to be part of nature). Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge, considers animal tool use, techniques, and construction within the context of theories about what constitutes technology and what constitutes knowledge. With reference to an engaging variety of animal case studies, primarily from research on apes, dolphins, and crows, this book shows how concepts from philosophy of technology can be used to make better sense of the animal cases. These animal cases also help us to refine our philosophical concepts, creating more careful distinction and uniting different accounts of technological knowledge.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published date | 20 Sep 2017
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 150
Dimensions | 238 x 159 x 17mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 367g
ISBN | 978-1-4985-4311-8
Readership Age |
BISAC | philosophy / ethics & moral philosophy
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 4 699.95
Price | R 4 229.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
|
|
|
