Introduction and Preface

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal. Please transcribe your sentence or clearly indicate the passage in your journal, giving the page number and (when appropriate) which reading. For instance, a reply to the first question might begin
"Good biology leads to this conclusion." (BP, xi)
  1. Select the sentence from [BP] that you feel best summarizes the theme of the book, as indicated by the introduction. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection.
  2. Select one passage (1-2 sentences) from either [BP] or [WA] that you feel the author of the other text would most agree to have placed in their introduction. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection.
  3. Identify one passage (1-3 sentences) in either reading that you feel best highlights the difference in motive between the two texts. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection.
  4. Bekoff and Pierce write
    We've been too stingy, too focused on ourselves, but now scientific research is forcing us to broaden our horizons concerning the cognitive and emotional capacities of other animals. (p. x)
    Identify one passage in [WA] that you feel is most closely related. Considering your selection, do you think the authors of the two texts agree or disagree on this point? Briefly explain.