In Defense of Dolphins
The New Moral Frontier
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. Ric…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: White, Jerry
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-5779-7
- EAN: 9781405157797
- Produktnummer: 19160830
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 365 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 365
Über den Autor
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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