Thinking about how they think
Francis Gooding, 16 February 2017
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by Frans de Waal.
Granta, 340 pp., £14.99, September 2016,978 1 78378 304 5 Show More
by Frans de Waal.
Granta, 340 pp., £14.99, September 2016,
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst.
Greystone, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2016,978 1 77164 248 4 Show More
by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst.
Greystone, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2016,
“... Why should we try to understand the lives of animals? The English moral philosopher Mary Midgley’s Beast and Man (1978) ended with a succinct answer: humankind ‘can neither be understood nor saved alone’. No philosophy can hope to understand ‘human nature’, Midgley argued, without acknowledging our integration into incomparably larger and older natural systems ... ”
