
This invited review of Eva Meijer’s Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) offers an in-depth engagement with Meijer’s exploration of communication across species. It traces how the book expands the idea of dialogue beyond language to include embodied and material forms of exchange—touch, movement, shared practice—and how these modes can transform everyday coexistence between humans and nonhumans. The review commends Meijer’s ability to weave lived experience and philosophical reflection while drawing attention to the book’s ethical and political implications for interspecies care and listening. At the same time, it raises critical questions about anthropomorphism, scale, and the challenges of extending such dialogical practices beyond intimate contexts. In doing so, the review both affirms Meijer’s contribution to animal ethics and multispecies philosophy and advances the discussion on what meaningful communication and coexistence with nonhuman beings might require. Meijer, Eva. Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea andOthers. Amsterdam University Press, 2025.https://www.routledge.com/Multispecies-Dialogues-Doing-Philosophy-with-Animals-Children-the-Sea-and-Others/Meijer/p/book/9789048564415
Philosophy, Communication, Animals, Review, Animal Ethics, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
Philosophy, Communication, Animals, Review, Animal Ethics, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 0 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
