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In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Thomas I. White


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Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest research on dolphin intelligence and social behavior, to advocate for their ethical treatment.

  • Encourages a reassessment of the human-dolphin relationship, arguing for an end to the inhuman treatment of dolphins
  • Written by an expert philosopher with almost twenty-years of experience studying dolphins
  • Combines up-to-date research supporting the sophisticated cognitive and emotional capacities of dolphins with entertaining first-hand accounts
  • Looks at the serious questions of intelligent life, ethical treatment, and moral obligation
  • Engaging and thought-provoking

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Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? This timely and important book considers the answers and implications, and encourages humans to reconsider our treatment of the species with which we share the earth.

In this thought-provoking account, White relies on his more than fifteen year journey to understand the nature of dolphins, an odyssey that took him from the classroom to the center of the ocean. With a growing body of research supporting the sophisticated cognitive and emotional capacities of dolphins, important questions concerning their ethical treatment have arisen. Rich with engaging first-hand accounts, In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest research on dolphin intelligence and social behavior, making a strong case for improving the moral status of dolphins, and advocating an end to their inhumane treatment.

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  • Title In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier
  • Author Thomas I. White
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Date 2007-07-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781405157797 / 1405157798
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.3 x 0.55 in (22.81 x 16.00 x 1.40 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects, Human-animal relationships - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007014522
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.53

About the author

Thomas I. White, Ph.D. is the Hilton Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He is also the Scientific Advisor to the Wild Dolphin Project in Jupiter, Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1974, and he taught at Upsala College and Rider University in New Jersey before moving to California. In addition to numerous scholarly articles on a variety of philosophical topics, he is the author of Right and Wrong, Discovering Philosophy, Business Ethics and Men and Women at Work (with Katherine Kearney). Since 1990, he has observed and assisted with the research of Dr. Denise Herzing of the Wild Dolphin Project, a marine scientist who has been studying a community of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas for more than 20 years.
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