When Killing Animals is ‘Honoring God’
Members of the International Order of St. Hubertus and special guests at a hunting ranch They’re wealthy men of the old aristocracy, who wear dark green and scarlet robes on ceremonial occasions, and...
View ArticleHow We Go About Insisting We’re Not Animals – Video
“I Am Not an Animal!” The signature cry of our species February 24 – 25, 2017 A symposium at the Emory Conference Center, Atlanta Register now Overview The big questions we face in the coming years,...
View ArticleWhy We Tell Ourselves We’re Not Really Animals – Video
“I Am Not an Animal!” The signature cry of our species February 24 – 25, 2017 A symposium at the Emory Conference Center, Atlanta Register now Overview The big questions we face in the coming years,...
View ArticleCave Paintings and Our Relationship with Other Animals
“I Am Not an Animal!” The signature cry of our species February 24 – 25, 2017 A symposium at the Emory Conference Center, Atlanta Register now Overview The big questions we face in the coming years,...
View ArticleKing Oedipus and the End of the World
“I Am Not an Animal!” The signature cry of our species February 24 – 25, 2017 A symposium at the Emory Conference Center, Atlanta Register now Overview The big questions we face in the coming years,...
View ArticleThinking about Death Leads People to Support Killing Animals
“I Am Not an Animal!” The signature cry of our species February 24 – 25, 2017 A symposium at the Emory Conference Center, Atlanta Register now Overview The big questions we face in the coming years,...
View ArticleHow We “View” Other Animals
(Session #3 at the “I Am NOT an Animal!” symposium, Feb 24th, 2017, in Atlanta.) In this video, author and English professor Randy Malamud brings together two themes: How we “view” other animals (from...
View ArticleThe Worm at the Core
Why do we have such a deep need to deny that we’re animals? In this session from the “I Am NOT an Animal!” symposium, psychologist Dr. Sheldon Solomon begins with a question that philosophers and...
View ArticleThoughts of Death Make You Support the Killing of Animals
A new series of studies shows that when people are reminded of their personal mortality, they tend to become more disposed toward the killing of nonhuman animals. Graduate student Uri Lifshin and his...
View ArticleWhy Mass Extinction Is Part of Human Nature
It’s surely the ultimate insanity. Why would we humans (by our own account the world’s most “intelligent” species) behave in a way that’s bringing about a mass extinction – one that will likely take...
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