Animal Minds and Animal Ethics: Connecting Two Separate Fields

✍ Scribed by Klaus Petrus (editor), Markus Wild (editor)

• Publisher: transcript publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Series: Human-Animal Studies, 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Philosophers investigating questions of animal ethics tend to draw on animal cognition research while subscribing to strong positions regarding animal minds, and philosophers pursuing the question of animal minds frequently draw conclusions from the arguments of ethical philosophers. Despite this exchange, animal mind and animal ethics research have developed in fundamentally different directions. One reason for this divison lies in the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. This anthology brings these fields and their philosophical approaches closer together, mapping their surprising ideological and methodological overlap.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Animal Minds & Animal Ethics
Contents
Introduction. Animal Minds and Animal Ethics
Part One.Animals, Science and the Moral Community
1. Animal Mind. Science, Philosophy, and Ethics
2. Animal Minds, Cognitive Ethology, and Ethics
3. A Form of War. Animals, Humans, and the Shifting Boundaries of Community
4. Cognition and Community
Part Two. Animal Autonomy and Its Moral Significance
5. Mental Capacities and Animal Ethics
6. The Question of Belief Attribution in Great Apes. Its Moral Significance and Epistemic Problems
7. Ape Autonomy? Social Norms and Moral Agency in Other Species
8. The Nonhuman Roots of Human Morality
Part Three. The Diversity of Animal Ethics
9. Animal Rights. A Non-Consequentialist Approach
10. Taking Sentience Seriously
11. Two Approaches to Animal Ethics and the Case of Great Apes
12. Personhood, Interaction and Skepticism
13. Eating and Experimenting on Animals. Two Issues in Ethics
Contributors