![]() Rowlands addresses the issues of potential cruelty in keeping a wolf as a pet, and explores our prima facie concepts of nature, red in tooth and claw, and the nature of humanity today, stuck with a brain the architecture of which is a sometimes-archaic product of evolution. Vegetarianism and the ethics of animal treatment is examined, à la Singer as a result, the wolf Brennin, and his eventual companions Nina and Tess are converted to piscatarianism. ![]() It is, self-admittedly, a kind of selective autobiography of life with a wolf, seen through the lenses of philosophy.Ī self-proclaimed misanthropist and then-alcoholic, Rowlands delves into evolutionary psychology to philosophize on the development of human intelligence from a sort of arms’ race of deceitfulness. ![]() This read was inspired by hearing the podcast ‘Mark Rowlands on Philosophy and Running’, from Philosophy Bites, quite possibly my all-time favourite podcast.Ī young philosophy professor, Rowlands buys a wolf pup while on Spring break, and his life changes forever. ![]()
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