SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scientific Method, Anthropomorphism, Nipper

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

Readings (45 pages): erica fudge, animal, london: reaktion books, 2002. Terms: vivisection, anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, mastery, analogic thinking, Descartes, bacon, darwin, evolution, survival of the fittest, mind vs. body dualism, consciousness, dominion vs stewardship, humanism, posthumanism, naturalized, normalized; the cambridge declaration of consciousness, survival of the fittest, speciesism. Terms: vivisection, anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, dominion, mastery, rene descartes, francis. White, nipper, alienation, babe, episteme, apparatus, automaton, aristotle, mind vs. body dualism, consciousness, xenotransplantation, inductive vs deductive research methods, new science, empirical evidence. Biocentric: a more benign, respectful relationship with our habitats and with non-human animals. Allows for the radical otherness of life forms - their inherent value outside the human domain. To be acknowledged, as opposed to a relation that sees only humans as centrally significant. Biocentric view would provide the foundation for a new lived relation. Anthropocentrism: celebrates imagined superiority of humanity over nonhuman animals. Speciesism: a (morally indefensible) preference for members of our own species.