{"title":"Books by Mark Rowlands","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780262549400","title":"Animal Rights","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh view of animals and what we owe them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo animals have moral standing? Do they count, morally speaking? In \u003ci\u003eAnimal Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark Rowlands argues that they do and explores the implications of this idea. He identifies three different waves in animal rights writing. The first wave was defined by a traditional dispute between utilitarianism (represented by Peter Singer) and rights-based approaches (represented by Tom Regan) to ethics. The second wave was defined by an expansion in a conception of ethics, which saw utilitarian and rights-based approaches supplemented by other ethical traditions, including contractualism, virtue ethics, and care ethics. The third wave was defined by an expansion in our conception of animals, driven by exciting new developments in the field of comparative psychology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of these waves had ramifications for how we understand the moral status of animals, but, this book argues, and reinforces, the core idea that animals deserve moral respect. In earlier waves, discussions of animal ethics had been focused on the issue of animal suffering. But the third wave is defined by the idea that animals are far more than merely sufferers or enjoyers of experiences but are instead authors of their own lives: creatures capable of choosing how to live, shaped by a conception of their life and how they would like it to go. Rowlands writes that, no matter what moral theory you choose, the most plausible version of that theory entails that animals have moral standing and that our obligations to them are far more substantial than many of us care to acknowledge.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232532443509,"sku":"9780262549400","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780262549400_15c7e4b0-79dd-4703-b924-625a938c537b.jpg?v=1786012811"},{"product_id":"9781783784578","title":"The Philosopher and the Wolf","description":"This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, and, strangely enough, as a philosopher, leading him to re-evaluate his attitude to love, happiness, nature and death. By turns funny (what do you do when your wolf eats your air-conditioning unit?) and poignant, this life-affirming classic of popular philosophy will make you reappraise what it means to be human.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303920808309,"sku":"9781783784578","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781783784578_b2d16132-cbe8-4b3e-88ab-fdaea3ec571c.jpg?v=1786025339"},{"product_id":"9781803510330","title":"The Happiness of Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf a dog could write a book of philosophy, what would it contain?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you have spent part of your life with a dog, you may find certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind. Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? This, however only scratches the surface of a canine philosophy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on his life lived with dogs (two German shepherds, the amiable Hugo and his dark twin Shadow; Brenin, a wolf hybrid, and Tess his wolf dog daughter; and Nina, a German shepherd\/malamute mix), on the ideas of philosophers from Socrates to Hume and Sartre, and on the cutting edge psychology of canine cognition, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores the way dogs experience the world to bring us closer to an understanding of ourselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile dogs feel unparalleled joy and focus in the moment, humans are burdened by the disquietude of anxiety, doubt and even anguish. Happiness for dogs can be achieved in the daily chase of a squirrel, for humans it is much more elusive. Digging deep into their morality, freedoms, consciousness, intelligence and love of life, Rowlands discovers that dogs have a unique way of existing which amounts to a different philosophical outlook altogether - if they could write such a thing - and that they may have better answers to the meaning of life than we do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306858721653,"sku":"9781803510330","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803510330_639f1db1-ea56-4173-a7bd-3944d7279cd9.jpg?v=1786027239"},{"product_id":"9781803512648","title":"The Book of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemory isn't all that we think it is. Each time we revisit even our most deeply ingrained memories, they can soften and consolidate, distorted. Yet they also carry within them the blueprint of each person's unique style. From episodic memories like shining islands in dark water, and forgotten memories that underpin our personalities, to the memories authored by others that we carry within us, Rowlands explores our negotiations with the past and how memory makes us who we are. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the latest neurological and psychological research and on a range of writers and thinkers, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Memory \u003c\/i\u003eis a mesmerising journey into how memories are made, lost and remembered, with important consequences for how we understand ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682691490165,"sku":"9781803512662","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56307540459893,"sku":"9781803512648","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803512662_bcd0ed58-7314-4f56-83cb-b380ecc78caf.jpg?v=1792511580"},{"product_id":"9781847082633","title":"Running with the Pack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Rowlands has run for most of his life.  He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two  - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected.  In \u003ci\u003eRunning with the Pack\u003c\/i\u003e he tells us about the most significant runs of his life: from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortality, middle age and the meaning of life. This is a highly original and moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, and those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313059246453,"sku":"9781847082633","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847082633_a0c81643-adb9-4f50-be16-b0128cf7cd79.jpg?v=1786029679"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mark-rowlands.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}