How Human-Animal Relations are Realized: From Respective Realities to Merging Minds.

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      Many accounts in environmental ethics converge on relationality as the catalyst of humans' responsibility towards other-than-human beings. But what exactly is relationality and how can the amorphous notion be specified? In search of a conceptual basis for human-animal relations, I show how questions about the nature of intersubjectivity are entwined with questions about the nature of reality. In my approach to answering these questions, I connect empirical results, insights from Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and from Jakob von Uexküll's theory of Umwelten.Based on this synthesis, I explain how beings endowed with radically different subjective experiences - what I call organisms' respective realities - are nevertheless capable of meaningfully relating to one another and have their minds 'merge' in intersubjective encounters. I conclude that relationality is a 'real' possibility for mediating ethical action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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