Book of Donmon Teith

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. At

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

In this book, Isaac Alderman uses insights from the cognitive study of death anxiety and disgust to examine the animal-human boundary in Genesis 2-3, providing

"An excellent interdisciplinary collage . . . of considerable interest to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists (of a theoretical stripe), sociologis

The Human-Animal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question "what is human?" with the question