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Books
The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands
Greg Linster is left howling at Mark Rowlands’ memoir of his pet wolf.
Humans often wonder how other animals think or feel. I often wonder: do non-human animals wonder how humans feel? For Mark Rowlands, a philosophy professor and author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, the answer to this question is “No.”
The Philosopher and the Wolf is a philosophical memoir about a man’s life and what he learned about it by living with a wolf for over a decade. Ultimately, however, the book is a philosophical reflection on the human condition. As such, its main purpose, I think, is to examine how what we call ‘social intelligence’ affects how we think about and engage with the world.
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