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Zoos

A Philosophical Tour

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  1. Keekok Lee
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 1-4

  3. What Does the Public Find in Zoos?

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 5-15

  4. Animals in the Wild

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 16-24

  5. ‘Wild Animals in Captivity’

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 25-29

  6. Decontextualised and Recontextualised

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 30-41

  7. Lifestyle Dislocation and Relocation

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 42-50

  8. Suspension of Natural Evolution

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 51-57

  9. Domestication and Immuration

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 58-80

  10. Biotic Artefacts

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 81-88

  11. Justifications Deemed Serious

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 89-111

  12. Justification Deemed Frivolous

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 112-117

  13. Philosophy and Policy

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 118-124

  14. Conclusion

    • Keekok Lee
    Pages 125-127

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 128-174
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About this book

In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.

Reviews

'The book is timely addition to growing body of philosophical literature on

animals and moral dimensions of conservation.' - Markku Oksanen, Department of Philosophy, University of Kuopio, Finland

About the author

KEEKOK LEE is currently Visiting Chair in Philosophy at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include environmental philosophy, philosophy of technology, and the relationship between the environment and technology from the ontological perspective. Published works include Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics (2002), The Natural and the Artefactual (1999) and Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity (1989).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Zoos

  • Book Subtitle: A Philosophical Tour

  • Authors: Keekok Lee

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503809

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8624-5Published: 22 November 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54071-6Published: 22 November 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50380-9Published: 22 November 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 174

  • Topics: Zoology, Philosophy, general

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