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Is life much better as a pet? A thinker examines

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What is it like to be a canine? And what can we gain from them? Mark Rowlands’s take, in his book The Happiness of Dogs, has lots of insights, discovers Abigail Beall

By Abigail Beall

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Unlike human beings, canines might understand what they understand through living instead of through believing

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The Happiness of Dogs

Mark Rowlands (Granta Books)

Do you invest a big portion of your day taking a look at your canine, asking concerns like “what do you believe he is believing today?” Or “does she comprehend just how much I enjoy her?” If that sounds familiar, then a brand-new book by theorist Mark Rowlands might be simply the important things.

The Happiness of Dogs: Why the unexamined life is most worth living is a remarkable take on what it resembles to live like a …

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