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Animals, Robots, Gods

Adventures in the Moral ImaginationBy Webb KeaneNarrated by Mark Arnold

Animals, Robots, Gods

Length5h 44m

About this audiobook

This audiobook narrated by Mark Arnold offers a mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in, or the machines we endow with life. Drawing on pioneering fieldwork around the globe by some of today's leading researchers, acclaimed anthropologist Webb Keane invites us to expand our moral imagination. We learn about the ethical dilemmas of South Asian animal rights activists, Balinese cockfighters, cowboys, and Japanese robot fanciers. We meet a hunter in the Yukon who explains to a bear why it must come out of hibernation and generously give itself up to him, a cancer sufferer in Thailand who sees his tumor as a reincarnated ox, and a computer that persuades users to confess their anxieties as if they were patients on a psychiatrist's couch. Through these and other stories, Keane challenges us to rethink our most basic ideas about who—and what—we deem worthy of moral consideration. Brimming with charm, wit, and insight, Animals, Robots, Gods reveals how centuries of conversations between us and nonhumans inform our conceptions of morality and will continue to guide us in the age of AI and beyond.

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology, Philosophy

Length5 hrs 44 mins

Narrated byMark Arnold

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateMar 18, 2025

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credit

6Chapter 4 - Quasi-Humans: Robots, Avatars, Servants and Fetishes

2Introduction

7Chapter 5 - Superhumans: Artificial Intelligence, Spirits and Shamans

3Chapter 1 - Moral Machines, Human Decisions

8Chapter Coda: Moral Relativism, Human Realities

4Chapter 2 - Humans: Between Life and Death

9Closing Credit

5Chapter 3 - Near-Humans: Animals as Prey, Sacrifice, Workmates and Companions

About the author

Webb Keane

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