The Phenomenology of Animal Life

Lestel, D.; Bussolini, J.; Chrulew, Matthew

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Authors

Lestel, D.

Bussolini, J.

Chrulew, Matthew

Date

2014

Type

Journal Article

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Citation

Lestel, D. and Bussolini, J. and Chrulew, M. 2014. The Phenomenology of Animal Life. Environmental Humanities. 5: pp. 125-148.

Source Title

Environmental Humanities

Additional URLs

http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol5/5.7.pdf

ISSN

2201-1919

School

Humanities Research and Graduate Studies

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This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18348

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This paper presents a bi-constructivist approach to the study of animal life, which is opposed tothe realist-Cartesian paradigm in which most ethology operates. The method is elaborated through the examples of a knot-tying orangutan in a Paris zoo and chile-eating cats in a New York apartment. We show that, when grounded in the operational framework of the phenomenological approach, the interpretation of animal life acquires a much more robust character than is usually supposed.