• Communication and Ethics within the Animal Kingdom with Dr. Rebekah Humphreys

  • Mar 5 2025
  • Length: 54 mins
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Communication and Ethics within the Animal Kingdom with Dr. Rebekah Humphreys

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  • Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Dr. Rebekah Humphreys, author of Animals, Ethics, and Language: The Philosophy of Meaningful Communication in the Lives of Animals, to explore the world of non-human beings.

    What are the ethics in how we engage with the animal kingdom? Can the legal system stand up and be the voice of the voiceless? Does this mean that the superior humans are in control of the animal life cycle in how it plays out? Is communication only verbal and must be acknowledged by all or might communication be an innate energy sense of knowing what the being is feeling to be heard?

    How are we proposing control, beliefs, and rules on the animal kingdom? We are part of the animal kingdom, not just the four-legged animals across the earth.

    Are we taking the rules we apply as humans to animals and to take over control of how their life existence plays out per our definition?

    Are we talking about human and non-human life? Where did this word arise and how do we apply it to the beings in this world? Are humans the center of the universe just because they believe there is a higher level of intelligence?

    There is a growing awareness of the treatment of animals for trade, food, entertainment, and supporting human needs in existence. How have we come into this time in the world where animals are so abused, and we have allowed this process to expand and continue?

    Ethics is how we treat humans and non-humans; what is right and wrong is left up to the ones who are superior in form and control. Are ethics the filters by which we experience the world and treat everything in our life with these filters?

    Dr. Humphreys is available here: (11) Rebekah Humphreys (researchgate.net)

    The Suffering Animal is part of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, totaling more than forty volumes in the series, which is co-edited by Professor Andrew Linzey and Dr Clair Linzey, from the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics is an independent Centre devoted to pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through research, teaching, and publication. For full information see www.oxfordanimalethics.com

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