Attending to Animals and Animal Attention

Journal of Animal Ethics 14 (2):170-185 (2024)
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This article considers the moral significance of paying attention to animals. In particular, it highlights the potential of environmental attentiveness to disclose animal reality beyond anthropocentric modes of perception. Yet, a possible danger associated with highlighting attention-as-revelation is that human attention becomes centered as the primary mechanism for acquiring normative truths, and there is a consequent ambiguity relating to the role of the attended-to-other. To mitigate this, the article argues that shifting to animal attention may help to conceive of, and enact, the potential of attention to not only reveal but also to affect, reconfigure, and transform human-animal relations.

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