Cognitive kin, moral strangers? : linking animal cognition, animal ethics & animal welfare /
In Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex socio-cog...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | Human-animal studies ;
v. 23. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals as the Object of Science-and What Has Been Neglected Thus Far
- Questions and Objectives of the Book
- Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals
- The Concept of Cognition and the Concept of Consciousness
- Culture in Animals?
- Language in Animals?
- Theory of Mind in Animals?
- Summary and Transition
- The Relevance of Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals for Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare
- Kinship and Responsibility: the Moral Status of Animals
- Kinship and Responsibility: the Discrepancy between Ethical Demands and the Status Quo
- Summary
- Discussion
- Cognitive Kinship and the Concept of an Evolutionary Self
- A Comparison of Arguments
- Possibilities of Modifying Personhood Rights for Animals
- Alternative: Turn the Focus Back to the Suffering of Animals?
- Final Evaluation of Personhood Rights for Animals
- Back Matter
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index.
